Apr 142019
 

The recent arrest of WikiLeaks cofounder Julian Assange in London is an outrage.  There are so many things wrong with this situation that I could write a book.  A long book.  Assange had been granted asylum by the Ecuadorian government back in 2012, and became a citizen of Ecuador in 2017.  Now, they have revoked that asylum, invited the London Police into their embassy to arrest him, and he is sitting in jail cell presumably awaiting extradition.  Many international human rights groups believe that he should be released.

This is a cautionary tale about governments and government agencies.  The behavior of Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, is reprehensible.  It is proof that all too often a government can say something or promise anything one day, and change its mind on a different day.  That becomes very true when there is a change of leadership in a government.  It is known that Moreno has been implicated in a corruption scandal in Ecuador by his country’s legislature.  As always, governments show they cannot be trusted.

Assange may appeal to the government of France for asylum on humanitarian grounds (he has a son who lives in France).  But what would come next?  Does anyone really want to trust the French to do the right thing?  Assange will always be on the run unless the United States drops its legal case against him.

The international media should be praising the work that Assange and WikiLeaks have done over the years.  Assange should be as revered as Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971.  Our United States Constitution guarantees freedom of the press.  Assange should be treated as a reporter and WikiLeaks considered a news reporting organization.

It should be stated that Assange is not accused by the United States government of hacking.  He is a reporter who has used a hacker as a source.  He is a journalist who has sought to protect his sources, which earned the enmity of several national governments.  If we value freedom of speech then we have to stand in support of him.

If we care about holding our own government accountable, especially when it is engaging in unjust warfare overseas, then we need people like Assange doing the very work that they have done.  The justifications for our military misadventures have often been spurious.  We need to admit that the United States either has no clue about what it is doing in the Middle East, or (worse) is an intentional bad actor.  Ellsberg, Assange and others have done the necessary work over time to expose our foreign policy misconduct.

It’s time to free Julian Assange!

In Liberty,

George Brikho

Aug 272018
 

This past weekend, Sen. John McCain died of brain cancer. While I have sorrow for his family and his children on a purely human level, the way the mainstream media is attempting to turn this man into some kind of saint is beyond disgusting.

Putting aside McCain’s military service for a moment, let us look at what the man accomplished as a public official. He was apart of the Keating 5 scandal where McCain did the bidding of a bankster who defrauded Americans out of billions during his initial days in the Senate. He was barely able to survive this embarrassment early in his career.

But that paled in comparison to the biggest crime of McCain’s career: the War on Iraq.

President Donald Trump called George W. Bush’s war on Iraq one of the greatest blunders in history. He was not wrong, but he actually undershot the reality of the situation. It wasn’t just a blunder. It was a criminal act. It was the rape of a land. It was a genocide of Christians. It opened the door for radical Islam to take power. It resulted in millions of deformed children, destined to live their lives in extreme suffering due to depleted uranium being dropped upon their land by US bombers.

This was enabled because of the advocacy of John McCain. He – along with Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Mitch McConnell and Jeff Sessions – authorized this war that has yielded nothing but tragedy in return. A far-leftist, pro-communist, anti-American, extremist Islamic regime is coming into power in Iraq because of the democratic reforms that were put into place. It turns out bombing a country into oblivion turns that country against you.

Who thought it would be a great idea to bomb Iraq to Hell and then introduce democracy there afterwards? None other than Sen. John McCain, the man who is being called a hero by the fake news media right now! These facts are all conveniently forgotten by the liberal spin doctors, of course. The leftist gutter trash considers McCain a hero because he spent his final days – when he was deathly ill, mentally deranged and should have been resting and spending time with family – trying to derail the presidency of Donald Trump.

But McCain was never much of a family man – that is why he left the mother of his children who had waited for him while he was captive in Vietnam for a rich heiress. His first wife, Carol, had lost her attractiveness after suffering a car accident that nearly claimed her life. McCain left her in the dirt to help his political ambitions. He later called his new trophy wife a “c-nt” in front of a gaggle of reporters while hosting them on a massive yacht paid for with his wifey’s money. This is the man who is called a champion of decency and civility by the fake news media!

Now, let’s talk about his military service for a second. I love to honor our nations heroes, but never the ones who snitch and become a rat under the pressure. McCain was called “Songbird John” by his fellow Vietnam war veterans because he aided and abetted the enemy. He recorded propaganda recordings on behalf of the communist Vietnamese government. Those tapes were leaked many years later:

Only because of his admiral daddy’s connections was McCain ever to escape culpability for his real record in Vietnam. McCain’s actual record shows a self-centered, ruthless man who would tell any lie to get ahead. He committed seditious treachery to save his own ass in Vietnam, left a sick loyal woman who stood by his side in the dirt, and perpetrated a record of evil in the Senate that few can come close to matching. We must proclaim the truth and not deify a man who represented all that was wrong with America when he was alive. McCain was a globalist, a neoconservative, a warmonger and never put America first a day in his life.

McCain’s record is being whitewashed by the mainstream media as a ploy to hurt Donald Trump and weaken his presidency. Do not fall into their trap. We must stand strong, remember to put America first, and make sure that the legacies of public officials match what they accomplished when they were alive. McCain’s record was that of the swamp personified. He kicked and screamed to stop America from being made great again in his dying days, and he is likely paying a steep eternal price right now for his wicked behavior.