The Problem With Punishing Assange.
Something that has to be said.
Assange is in prison, for calling out many crimes including mass murder, and torture, by a state.
The country holding him is my Country, UK.
In UK, my generation (Boomers) grew up believing in the law, more or less.
We had a fair idea of what good and bad meant, or we thought we did.
Things like murder, and torture, were bad, as were also theft, blackmail, and bribery.
We knew if we ever did any of those, we would go to jail, and we’d deserve it.
Trying to stop those things, is what we have law and order for, right?
Assange was calling out evidence of those things, an awful lot of those things, so he should be rewarded by law and order, right?
Evidently not.
He is the one in Jail.
Worse, now we even seem to be paving the way for him to be taken, by the same forces who carried out the atrocities he was calling out, to be tried for his “Crimes”.
Our state announced words to that effect, yesterday, on UN World Human Rights day.
Was that just a coincidence?
I dunno, you tell me.
The fundamental problem for us all now, is that we have lost the meaning of law and order.
Now, we have no idea what is good and bad.
No idea at all.
None of us.
The law was there to protect all people, including those in power.
But now it protects no-one, in fact it is a threat to everyone.
Now we are worse than lawless.
