Retired USAF lieutenant colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D. reports:
Julian Assange is reported to [be] very thin, very sick and being treated at this point, as
little more than a “lab rat” by his state doctors and interrogators at Belmarsh. Word is that his encryption key ring (with his private keys that unlock his various public keys) has already been extracted, under physical duress, cold, light and noise torture, food deprivation, BZ variants, some experimental, and now that he is very physically weak, PCP. The arrests have started and they won’t stop until the injured parties –mainly the US government – have satisfied their bloodlust.
If the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of donors of information to Wilikeaks around the world haven’t begun to already, they need to rapidly take cover – legal, physical, operational and otherwise.-RW
Surely Assange was not stupid enough to leave donor identity information under a key he could be forced to divulge? Or did the ego necessary to carry out his work blind him to such a possibility?
ReplyDeleteIt is because governments always use force and violence, or threats of force and violence, to control the civilian population, that I am so dead set against governments at any level. Britain, with its stupid and archaic 'royals' is a classic example of how bad a government can be to people it wants to control and/or destroy. Ask the Irish, or the Scots.
ReplyDeleteBecause Assange is beyond help from others, I suspect he is as good as dead. And that makes me both sad and angry.
Sounds more like the government is trying to shake out some snitches. Scaring them into cooperation.
ReplyDelete“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing to add to that. "It can't happen here", my derriere. It already does.
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