If Assange is a terrorist, what is Posada?

[Joanne98]

The trials of the creator of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles began with less than a 24-hour difference on January 10 and 11.

One took place in London and the other one in El Paso, Texas.

While the champion of freedom of information, Assange, is being accused by US officials of the very serious crime of terrorism, the confessed terrorist Posada was simply tried for immigration law violations.

The ANSA news agency reported that the request of extradition made by Sweden for Assange over “sexual molestation” allegations, was transferred from a court in the centre of London to Belmarsh Court.

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46549

[pberq]

1. Wikileaks as limited hangout

http://tarpley.net/2011/01/20/wikileaks-cognitive-infiltration-operation/


Awareness is growing around the world that the Wikileaks-Julian Assange theater of the absurd is radically inauthentic – a psyop. Wikileaks and its impaired boss represent a classic form of limited hangout or self-exposure, a kind of lurid striptease in which the front organization releases doctored and pre-selected materials provided by the intelligence agency with the intent of harming, not the CIA, nor the UK, nor the Israelis, but rather such classic CIA enemies’ list figures as Putin, Berlusconi, Karzai, Qaddafi, Rodriguez de Kirchner, etc. In Tunisia, derogatory material about ex-President Ben Ali leaked by Wikileaks has already brought a windfall for Langley in the form of the rare ouster of an entrenched Arab government.

At Foggy Bottom and Langley, a manic fit has been building since the flight of Ben Ali. US imperialist planners now believe they can re-launch their shopworn model of the color revolution, CIA people-power coup, or postmodern putsch against a whole series of countries in the Arab world and far beyond, including Italy. The color revolutions had been looking tarnished lately, as a result of the failure of the Twitter Revolution in Iran back in June 2009. Previously, the Cedars Revolution of 2005 had failed in Lebanon. The Orange Revolution in Ukraine had been rolled back with the ouster of NATO-IMF kleptocrats Yushchenko and Timoshenko. In Georgia, the Roses Revolution was increasingly discredited by the repressive and warmongering regime of fascist madman Saakashvili.

. . .
But now, NSC, State, and CIA believe that the color revolution has a new lease on life, thanks to their estimate that the United States, because of Wikileaks and Assange, has captured the imagination of a new generation of young nihilists across the globe who are described as the post-9/11 generation, estranged from governments and opposition parties, and thus ready to follow Langley’s peroxide Pied Piper.

(much more at link)

[Demeter]

2. No, I Don't Think So

I think the Powers That Be see Assange as a serious, credible threat against which they have no defense. And I'll guarantee that Langley never gave two moments of thought to Tunisia until it slipped out of their control.