I visited Julian the other day at Belmarsh Prison for the second time. Britain’s Guantanamo. He spends 23 hours every day, for 3½ years in solitary confinement. This is an attempt not to break him but to kill him.
It’s slow murder.
Of a man who’s not been convicted.
Has not been charged of anything except journalism.
I find it astonishing that there were people on the left who turned against Julian.
Newspapers like The Guardian who played a role in his incarceration and vilification.
Julian is holding on. Julian is not well.
Julian’s soul has been diminished by solitary confinement.
It feels, he told me, as if his personhood has been shrunk down to a tiny kernel.
And his hope is that if our campaign for him to become free again succeeds.
That he can grow his personality again from that kernel.
This is our duty.
If you care for your right to know what your governments do behind your back,
In your name all those crimes against humanity being perpetrated.
Not only in battlefields and invasions of foreign lands.
But also against our environment the secret deals with fossil fuel companies.
Then you must support Julian Assange.
Because Julian Assange is dying for your right to know what your government is doing on your behalf behind your back.
The mainstream media are part of the cloud capital that is usurping your mind, my mind, our mind.
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For the future of information and opinion,
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