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The jailing of Julian Assange today in the UK amounts to perhaps the most significant revelation to emerge from the Wikileaks operations. It is a clear sign that we in the "democratic West" are not living in a free society. Whenever before was Interpol mobilized to such an extent to jail someone on such dubious charges? It is obvious that Assange is being persecuted for revelations that could conceivably arouse public opinion to oppose the war policies of the United States. That is only a remote possibility, given the ideological indoctrination of Euro-Atlantic populations, but the threat is considered serious enough to mobilize the judicial power of the U.S. empire to make an example of Julian Assange. If Assange is not released soon, I propose forming a committee to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Obviously the Norwegian stooges who awarded first Obama and then a Chinese dissident, whose cause was by no means as related to peace as that of Assange, but the nomination would at least help expose the hypocritical double standards that contribute to this deadly ideological indoctrination. Diana Johnstone ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
