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If the US succeeds in normalizing the legality of extraditing any journalist anywhere in the world who exposes its wrongdoing, there will be a worldwide cooling effect on national security journalism which will greatly impede humanity's ability to form a lucid and unobstructed understanding of what's going on in the world. The largest power structure on earth will have succeeded in not just turning the lights off in the room, but in uninstalling the light switch.
There is no legal case in the world right now where the struggle for lucid and unobstructed seeing has so much on the line. For this reason, this isn't just about journalism: we really are collectively deciding the fate of our species with our response to the prospect of Assange's extradition.
Are we going to allow the most powerful government on the planet to set a legal precedent which allows it to obstruct truth around the entire world? Or are we going to oppose this tooth and claw?
Are we going to allow power to remain corrupt and unaccountable? Or are we going to insist on our right to know what's going on?
Are we going to let them keep the lights off? Or are we going to turn them on?
Are we going to let the bastards lock us into an omnicidal, ecocidal status quo while they drive us at a rapidly accelerating pace toward extinction and dystopia? Or are we going to move toward the kind of lucid and unobstructed perception of our situation which will allow us to progress into a healthy world?
These are the questions that we are in the process of answering together. I hope we can get everyone to very seriously consider what they want their own answer to be.
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