 The Assange case explains simply One of the most common reasons I hear from people on their reluctance to wade into the Assange debate is that they don't understand it It looks like a complicated issue to them. So they leave it to the experts In reality the complexity of this case is a complete illusion. It is very very simple It only looks complicated because many years of media distortion have made it appear so The US government is trying to extradite a journalist and prosecute him under the espionage act for exposing its war crimes With the long-term goal of normalizing this practice That's it. That's the whole entire thing So simple you can sum it up in a single sentence in a single breath The most powerful government in the world setting a legal precedent Which would allow it to extradite any journalist anywhere on earth for exposing its malfeasance Would unquestionably have a massive chilling effect on journalism everywhere and precisely the area where press scrutiny is most sorely needed It's not any more complex or nuanced than that The Assange issue is simple What makes it seem complicated is the lies people have been fed by the media class whose job is to manipulate the public Into consenting to the agendas of the US power alliance and its war machine Because of this mass scale smear campaign You will be told that Assange is not a journalist and should therefore not be defended as such This is first of all objectively false Providing the public with factual information about the powerful which helps them understand their world better is the thing That journalism is which is why Assange has received many awards for journalism More to the point Assange wouldn't need to be a journalist for worldwide press freedoms to be gravely threatened by his prosecution for publishing authentic documents about the US government You will be told that Assange helped Trump win with WikiLeaks publications that harmed the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign and should therefore not be supported But the Assange extradition case has nothing to do with the 2016 WikiLeaks releases The entire case revolves around the Chelsea Manning leaks from years earlier about the US military's scandalous abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan More to the point only the most infantile of Narcissists would believe it's legitimate to imprison people for hurting your preferred candidates political campaign You will be told that Assange is being prosecuted for hacking and not journalism Because the US indictment alleges that Assange tried to help Manning crack a password while taking classified documents But it does not allege that Assange made any attempt to help Manning gain access to those documents The indictment says that Manning already had access to the computers in connection with her duties as an intelligence analyst and That Assange's attempts would only have made it more difficult for investigators to determine the source of the illegal disclosures As explained in 2019 by journalists Glenn Greenwald and Micah Lee the latter of whom happens to despise Assange This means Assange was engaged in the standard journalistic practice of source protection Anyone who says Assange tried to hack into US government servers is either lying or misinformed You will be told that Assange is a Russian asset because of still unproven allegations by the US government that the Kremlin was behind the 2016 releases But this claim is completely baseless and again completely unrelated to the 2010 Manning publications for which Assange is actually being prosecuted No serious media publication has ever reported that the Assange extradition case has anything to do with the 2016 WikiLeaks publications But because so many people heard Assange's name mentioned during the mass media's discredited Trump Russia collusion narratives You'll constantly see people assuming that one is related to the other Do you see how that works? Do you see how what's actually happening with the Assange case is extremely simple and easy to understand? But all the narratives justifying his persecution makes it necessary to engage in a bunch of complicated counter arguments This obfuscation didn't happen by accident Which is why I refuted as many such distortions as possible in this long article written after Assange's imprisonment The most powerful government in the world trying to lock up a foreign journalist for telling the truth is as Insanely tyrannical and abuse as you could possibly come up with It's as obvious as it gets The Assange case is so simple and so common sense It should be one of the most mainstream normie positions anyone could possibly have Right up there with believing racism is bad and child molesters should be stopped It's only because imperial spin meisters muddy the waters with lies and distortions that this isn't happening Everyone should oppose the agenda to normalize the imprisonment of journalists who embarrass the u.s. Empire This shouldn't be a job left to fringe bloggers podcasters and youtubers It should be happening in every sector of society across the entire political spectrum The fact that a very large sector of the population fails to see this as a priority issue Shows you just how brainwashed the empire's propaganda engine has made us