{"id":403123,"date":"2019-04-15T01:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-marriage-of-conscience-julian-assange-and-chelsea-manning\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T01:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:22:18","slug":"a-marriage-of-conscience-julian-assange-and-chelsea-manning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-marriage-of-conscience-julian-assange-and-chelsea-manning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Marriage of Conscience: Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cAbout suffering they were never wrong,\u201d wrote W. H. Auden in the poem \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/englewoodreview.org\/w-h-auden-reading-musee-des-beaux-arts-audio\/\">Mus\u00e9e Des Beaux Arts<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These lines occurred to me last week when all eyes were focused on the brutal British seizure of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.<\/p>\n<p>No one should have been surprised by this despicable spectacle carried out in the noonday light for all to see, for the British government has not served as America\u2019s jailer for the past seven years for no reason.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t take x-ray eyes to see that the British and the Moreno government in Ecuador are twin poodles on the American leash.\u00a0 After a phony display of judicial fairness, the British, as required by their American bosses, will dispatch Assange to the United States so he can be further punished for the crime of doing journalism and exposing war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Assange has suffered mightily for American sins.\u00a0 The Anglo-American torturers know how to squeeze their victims to make old men out of the young.\u00a0 Abu Ghraib was no aberration.\u00a0 The overt is often covert; just a thin skin separates the sadists\u2019 varied methods, but their message is obvious.\u00a0 No one who saw Assange dragged to prison could fail to see what the war-mongers, who hate freedom of the press when it exposes their criminal activities, can do to a man.\u00a0 Nor, however, could one fail to see the spirit of defiance that animates Assange, a man of courageous conscience cowards can\u2019t begin to comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>Bought and sold, compromised and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/04\/a-marriage-of-conscience-julian-assange-and-chelsea-manning\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAbout suffering they were never wrong,\u201d wrote W. H. Auden in the poem \u201cMus\u00e9e Des Beaux Arts.\u201d These lines occurred to me last week when all eyes were focused on the brutal British seizure of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. No one should have been surprised by this despicable spectacle carried out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}