An Open Letter to President Donald Trump: I Beseech You to Pardon Julian Assange
Posted: 19 Jan 2021, 00:56
Mr. President, let me say from the outset that I have been a frequent critic your administration for the entirety time in the White House. Yet for all your faults, and there are many from needlessly demonizing Muslims to otherizing Mexicans to widening the chasm of our differences domestically, on the 11th hour of your tenure, I have to give you credit for some of the good you have achieved.
Chief among them is exposing the ugly face of fascism that is passed on to Americans and the world as a “representative democracy”. For all but the blindly loyal partisans, most Americans now understand that Democrats and Republicans are a perverse duopoly who are colluding to further their power and fleece the proletariat. What the founders of America rebelled against has been reborn in ways that make King George look like a saint; we are being taxed without representation and being governed without consent.
Witnessing Democrats excoriate you for wanting to end the era of perpetual wars, seeing the establishment go nuts because you wanted to pull out of TPP and observing the political order losing their collective minds because you demanded more money for the working and middle-class for Covid-19 relief was truly a revelation for most Americans. While this does not absolve you from some of the egregious actions you took and the ways you subverted decency in order to serve your ego, I have to nonetheless tip my hat to you for lifting the veil and showing the true faces of uber hypocrisy and unending mendacity that belongs to DC’s political class....continued...
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Chief among them is exposing the ugly face of fascism that is passed on to Americans and the world as a “representative democracy”. For all but the blindly loyal partisans, most Americans now understand that Democrats and Republicans are a perverse duopoly who are colluding to further their power and fleece the proletariat. What the founders of America rebelled against has been reborn in ways that make King George look like a saint; we are being taxed without representation and being governed without consent.
Witnessing Democrats excoriate you for wanting to end the era of perpetual wars, seeing the establishment go nuts because you wanted to pull out of TPP and observing the political order losing their collective minds because you demanded more money for the working and middle-class for Covid-19 relief was truly a revelation for most Americans. While this does not absolve you from some of the egregious actions you took and the ways you subverted decency in order to serve your ego, I have to nonetheless tip my hat to you for lifting the veil and showing the true faces of uber hypocrisy and unending mendacity that belongs to DC’s political class....continued...
READ FULL ARTICLE AT: https://ghionjournal.com/an-open-letter ... n-assange/