Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Australia gets it right
Australia's government is mounting a solid defense of their own citizen, Julian Assange. This is exactly what a government should do, and it's also firmly within the old Anglo-Saxon tradition of free speech. As Polistra already said, Assange has simply taken over the job of the press from our "media", who have utterly abandoned the job.
Assange is telling the public what's happening, a concept most newspapermen used to understand and support. Under the post-1988 Soviet regime in the West, telling the public what's happening is Crimethink.
Australia is a positive exception to another current pattern: it has managed to avoid the current "recession" better than anyone else. How? Easy. They never UNlearned the lessons of 1929. Through the '90s, US, UK and much of Europe let Goldman Sachs change national laws for its own grotesque enrichment and evil amusement. Canada and Australia didn't let this happen, so they haven't crashed. ¶ 4:30 AM
Assange is telling the public what's happening, a concept most newspapermen used to understand and support. Under the post-1988 Soviet regime in the West, telling the public what's happening is Crimethink.
Australia is a positive exception to another current pattern: it has managed to avoid the current "recession" better than anyone else. How? Easy. They never UNlearned the lessons of 1929. Through the '90s, US, UK and much of Europe let Goldman Sachs change national laws for its own grotesque enrichment and evil amusement. Canada and Australia didn't let this happen, so they haven't crashed. ¶ 4:30 AM
