This news is a litmus test for journalists. Actual journalists, people like you and I, who report true facts and oppose censorship, propaganda, and lies, have some concern for the ramifications and repercussions of the lawfare being prosecuted against Assange. Shills, propagadists, and censors instead openly celebrate the death of true journalism they seek to effect, because it will eliminate their competition. A world in which no one knows any information, has any opinions, or can grasp any reason that shills don't provide is the dream of that ilk - tyrants who would corral the minds of their subjects psychologically, and their paid agents.

True journalists not only decry this crime against humanity, and it's particular sacrificial offering Julian Assange, because it's true and criminal, they do so to defend themselves, their people, and society from becoming mentally trapped behind an iron curtain of propaganda, unable to know the truth, and possibly captured and enslaved themselves, just like Julian, for even daring to seek facts.

We can easily identify those liars and regurgitators of propaganda by this means, and discount them completely. The psychological warfare is such an all out push presently that but few dissemblers are allowed the pretense of not condemning JA and the facts he enabled us to know. This will make it easier to limit our sources to those that are actual journalists, and avoid wasting our time and attention on worthless psyops that will certainly come again from those sources, but sullied sycophants and singers of siren's songs of deceit.

Through similar mechanisms I have long ago abandoned most commercial purveyors of propaganda, noting their pushing of lies in various psyops, such as the Iraq war. This event should make it easy for an entire generation to do that for the entire industry. That is the consequence of such an all out effort: all the participants are revealed in one easy batch.

That lends this issue another warning sign. This abandonment of pretense of honesty and actual reportage indicates that such pretense is no longer considered valuable enough to continue. Given the rampant censorship, panoptic surveillance, and public acknowledgement of psyops and propaganda committed against our free people, it seems (((they))) don't even feel the need to hide that they are lying to us with malice aforethought. I do not like the implications of that at all.

Thanks!