The "Traitors"

The siege of Knightsbridge is both an emblem of gross injustice and a gruelling farce.  For three years, a police cordon around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state. It has cost £12 million. The quarry is an Australian charged with no crime, a refugee whose only security is the room given him by a brave South American country. His “crime” is to have initiated a wave of truth-telling in an era of lies, cynicism and war.

I have "liberal" friends, motivated by who knows what--likely a sense of security in an insecure world--who think Snowden, Manning and Assange are wrong-headed asses and "traitors."

I can't say I agree with them.

John Pilger states it better than I can, of course.


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