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Title: Ron Paul talks to Julian Assange: The War On Truth
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwkrtpXp-wg
Published: Apr 27, 2017
Author: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2017-04-29 07:52:30 by Operation 40
Keywords: truth, lies, 1776
Views: 1251
Comments: 9
Streamed live on Apr 27, 2017: Wikileaks Founder and Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange joins the Liberty Report to discuss the latest push by the Trump Administration to bring charges against him and his organization for publishing US Government documents. How will they get around the First Amendment and the Espionage Act? The US government and the mainstream media -- some of which gladly publish Wikileaks documents -- are pushing to demonize Assange in the court of public opinion. Wikileaks is registered as a 501(c)3 organization in the US. Find out more about the organization and how you can help: https://wikileaks.org/ 
Donald Trump: "I love WikiLeaks!" - 10/10/16
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#1. To: Operation 40 (#0)
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Another Trump flip flop - how many is that now?
These guys are more 'transparent' than they know. If Assange's agenda is to use 'transparency' to combat his perceived 'asymmetry in power', that would explain why he always seems to be attacking the US or the west in general. It is not about justice or human rights or who is right or wrong in any given conflict. It is about what he perceives to be a power imbalance in the world that is, in and or itself, inherently wrong no matter how that power is used. He is trying to ally himself with the American Libertarian movement not because he particularly likes them or even shares their political beliefs ( and you can see this in the way he hedges around their political beliefs without actually endorsing them). He is trying to ally with them because they tend to be isolationist in terms of foreign policy and he sees this as a way to address the 'asymmetry of power' in the world. Assange argues the he is advocating the divulging of truthful information as a way of arriving at correct outcomes or political decisions and that there is no evidence that anyone has ever come to harm because of what he has released. Whether the full release of information supplied to him by Manning resulted in someone getting killed or not, and it would be difficult in a court of law to prove that it had, it cannot be disputed that to release the name of someone who cooperated with American troops in Afghanistan 1) in no way contributed to the pool of 'truthful' information in the world and 2) inevitably would have to be seen as putting those people's lives in danger. No matter what his excuse, it was simply attacking individuals who had cooperated with Americans. Period. There was no justification for the release of such information and no reason to do it other than to harm them and the only effect of the release of information of such a confidential nature on an individual would be to dissuade them from cooperating with Americans in the future. Julian Assange and Ron Paul attempting to put a 'smiley face' upon what was an indisputably despicable act. And last time I checked, Hezbollah was no more transparent or concerned with civil rights than is Bahrain. An opinion by Badgerite.
#8. To: Gatlin (#5)
You are even more of a hypocritical weasel than your boy Trump.
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Donald Trump: "I love WikiLeaks!" - 10/10/16
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Convergence of Crazy: Ron Paul Interviews Julian Assange
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