Assange well supported by Virginia State Senator Black
State Senator Richard Black has written an excellent piece in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks this week at Consortium news:
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/31/virginia-state-senator-in-rare-sup...
Virginia State Senator in Rare Support by Politician for Assange
July 31, 2018Julian Assange’s lawyers fear his extradition to the U.S. where they believe a sealed indictment in Virginia is awaiting him. In a rare move by a U.S. politician, a state senator in Virginia has come out in support of Assange.
By State Senator Richard Black
As a military officer, I was trained to strictly observe security protocols. So when I first heard of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, I was instinctively critical. But upon reading his released documents, I saw how Julian gave people accurate insights into the inner workings of their own government.
Government “of the People” cannot flourish beneath a suffocating cloak of secrecy. And secrecy is often aimed, not at protecting us from enemies abroad, but at deceiving us about the dark machinations of our own government. The most consequential secrets are those used to conceal steps taken to establish predicates for future wars—unwarranted conflicts that seem to roll off an endless assembly line. No-fly zones, bombings, sanctions, false flags, blockades, mercenaries, bloodthirsty terrorists have all become stock in trade. Sanctions destabilize our targets through hunger and suffering. We terrorize and blow body parts into the streets like calling cards. Regime change is the end game; coups and assassinations are fair play.
Before Assange, those who “broke the code” and detected the Deep State’s patterns of misbehavior were labeled “conspiracy theorists” or worse. But with the advent of WikiLeaks, original, unchallenged source documents have proven our arguments, and revealed the truth to citizens...
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My former delegate.
Dick Black was my former delegate in the Virginia House when I lived in Ashburn, VA. I got to know him reasonably well through our membership in a local civic group. He's extremely conservative on many issues, and holds some abhorrent positions, but he's warm and friendly in person and quite intelligent. Surprisingly, his views on some things put him on the progressive side of the ledger, such as government funding of local transportation infrastructure and protecting American manufacturing jobs.
Syria: Wrote a letter to Assad stating in part "[it's] obvious that the rebel side of the war is largely being fought by 'vicious war criminals linked to Al Qaeda'".
RT: He appears on RT broadcasts and writes articles for RT.com. Samples - "the objective of doing this to RT news [making them register as a foreign agent] is not to block information from going to Russian citizens, it is to block the truth from reaching the American public in the United States" and "RT news has been a source of accurate information about NATO's provocations; their military provocations and their aggressive actions towards Russia in Europe."
As shown in the article this essay quotes, Black is distrustful of the deep state and despite being a former Marine Colonel, he has a deep distaste for war acquired through his service in Vietnam and later evolution in thinking. His support for Assange is welcome. It's a shame more politicians, conservative and liberal, don't recognize and acknowledge the evil being done in our name.
edg, thank you
for this knowledgeable comment. It is really interesting that some of the best criticism of our foreign policy is coming from the right.
Had Smedley Butler been writing today...
He would have immediately had his medal of honor revoked, been told he should never speak in public again, and disappeared if he refused to follow orders.
Hell, Michael Bay showed exactly how somebody like that would be smeared by TPTB, and the accusations that would be made to justify their murder.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u8fcCICbdw]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Black is the first ex military who has been in
Assange's corner. The comments I've read about Assange on military sites were mostly against him because they think that he put people at risk. Well they wouldn't be if they had followed military and universal law.
I'm sure that most people who want him dealt with would be just fine if he was assassinated. "Let's drone him." So much for following international law, Hillary.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
The best way
to protect our armed forces......is to never put them in harms way.
Stop the wars.
Slash the military budget.
End "Full Spectrum Dominance".
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.