Now for the mad mongrels of the Medusean mass media (for heaven's sake, don't look at them), despite my inclusion of the Guardian*, Intercept, USA Today, Fox News, Reuters and New York Times among the heroes above for allowing a dissenting opinion, these boot-licking stenographers have done everything they can otherwise to harm Assange's public image. The Guardian even went as low as fabricating a libelous story about him meeting with Paul Manafort. Other flies swarming the festering corpse of the Fourth Estate include Slate, BBC* (dossier "verified" 2/2/17), PBS, The Australian, MSNBC*, The Age (Aus.), Washington Post*, Vox, Vice, Daily Mail*, NPR*, AP, daily Caller, New Statesman, CNN (again and again and again), The Atlantic, Independent (of what?), Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal*, London Times, Daily Mirror, Times of London, Mirror, New Statesman, Glasgow Herald, The View, Bloomberg, National Review*, Newsweek ("keep Russians out" 11/9/17), Washington Times, Buzzfeed, Politico (Trump's Russia Ties" 3/3/17), McClatchy (fanning hysteria), Business Insider, Private Eye, The Root, Mother Jones and New York magazine. I hear even Saturday Night Live approved of Assange's arrest and potential extradition.
These press harlots have engaged variously in childish "poop smears," approval of Assange's arrest, cheerleading for his extradition, repeating the "self-imposed exile" canard, rationalizing their indecent treatment of him as due to his being a "narcissist" and "not a journalist," expressing glee at his cruel treatment, fanning flames of anti-Russian hysteria, and carrying on about Russian trolls spoiling the long-deceased corpse of American democracy.
A run down of the 45 names of individuals such as Rachel Maddow** would be too long, even without including the editors of major papers.
Miscellaneous Monsters
Active attacks on Assange occur on Twitter. I won't name them here. Some may have been parodies. Hollywood waded into this sewer with its own contributions from Kathy Griffin, George Takei, Rob Reiner, Joy Behar, Alyssa Milano and Bill Maher.
Intelligence, foreign policy and academic contributions to Assange's persecution have come from Crowdstrike*, Center for American Progress, Fusion GPS, and one professor each at Harvard and the University of Georgia. Several "Never Trumpers" have also attacked Assange and the "Active Measures" documentary is said to have fanned hysteria against Assange.
The has-been Amnesty International refuses, the last I've heard, to consider Assange a political prisoner.
But there is hope
Assange does have notable support from people within Amnesty International such as Massimo Moratti, and also from Robert Mahoney and others of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Knight First Amendment Institute, Human Rights Watch, VIPS, ACLU, Center for Investigative Journalism, Amnesty Ireland, Center for Constitutional Rights, National Union of Journalists, Digital Rights Watch, and Rutherford Institute. He has legal analyst Marjorie Cohn on his side.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS*) issued a memorandum to the governments and people of the US and UK in support of Assange, signed by Bill Binney, and many more.
The protests in London in support of Assange have been attended by Patrick Henningsen, Lee Stranahan and George Galloway along with many, many unnamed people, and Women Against Rape has spoken up against the persecution of Assange, with the Guardian providing them space (bless their hearts).
Finally, Edward Snowden, civil rights attorney Jameel Jaffer, lawyer Barry Pollack, Dan Kennedy of Northwestern University, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, historian Vijay Prashad, Australian human rights attorney Jennifer Robinson, Matthew Hoh (Center for International Policy), Micol Savia (International Association of Democratic Lawyers), human rights attorney John Whitehead, legal advisor Geoffrey Robertson, Australian activist Somerset Bean, Australian attorney Greg Barns, Robert Bridge (Strategic Culture Foundations), Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, and Sydney criminal lawyers Kieran Adair, Urug Nedim and Paul Gregory have all stood up for him, not to mention his mother, father and attorney Adam Waldman. Last but not least, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and comedian Jimmy Dore have voiced their support for Assange too.
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