watching 'our' government and its various factions is an entertaining process, and this will show more of that fun where we support and oppose freedom of speech at the same time;
Ever since suspicions were confirmed that the Trump administration is indeed working to prosecute and imprison
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing authentic documents,
the so-called “Resistance” has been struggling to explain exactly why it
is so enthusiastically supportive of that agenda. And when I say
struggling, I am being very, very generous.
When news broke that a
court document copy-paste error had inadvertently exposed the fact that
the Trump administration is pursuing an agenda which experts of diverse political persuasions agree would have devastating effects on the freedom of the press, #Resistance pundit and DC think tank operative Neera Tanden responded by tweeting,
“Never mess with karma”. As of this writing if you do a Twitter search
for the words “Assange” and “karma” together, you will come up with
countless Democratic Party loyalists using that concept to justify their
support for a Trump administration assault on the press that is
infinitely more dangerous than the president being mean to Jim Acosta.
The
trouble with that of course is that “karma”, as far as observable
reality is concerned, is not an actual thing. It’s a Hindu religious
concept that is supported by no more factual evidence than the Roman
Catholic claim that a priest literally turns bread and wine into the
body and blood of a Nazarene carpenter who died thousands of years ago. A
Democratic pundit using the concept of “karma” to justify enthusiastic
support for Trump’s fascistic attack on press freedoms is exactly the
same as a Republican pundit using “God wills it” to justify the
existence of poverty, and it is just as intellectually honest.
But it’s also the best argument these people have got..........https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/11/19/the-resistance-struggles-to-justify-support-for-trumps-prosecution-of-assange/
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