Jailing of Journalist for Exposing Poisonous Depth of U.S. Corruption Forever Nullifies the Pivotal 1734 Peter Zenger Case, Again Revealing "American Democracy" as Our Species' Most Self-Destructive Big Lie
THE
PERSECUTION OF JULIAN ASSANGE reduces to used toilet paper the Peter
Zenger verdict, the pivotal 1734 finding by a British colonial jury that
truth is always the ultimate defense against prosecution for seditious libel.
And that's just one of the many ways Assange's arrest lays bare the Big Lie of "American democracy."
It also adds yet another chapter of atrocities to four centuries of damning evidence
that would have long ago reduced the U.S. pretense of "democracy" to a
bitter joke in any polity even slightly less dishonest or hypocritical
than than pridefully ignorant, habitually hateful Moron Nation. It
demonstrates just how thoroughly the First Amendment and indeed the
entire Bill of Rights have been reduced to be nothing more than
stage-props.
Ultimately what Assange's illegal arrest shows us is the extent to which the tyranny implicit in "American exceptionalism" -- an older more euphemistically disguised variant of the bigotry that launched German Nazism -- has again been elevated to the dominant doctrine of U.S. governance.
Given
the reality of the Roberts Court -- which I dub "the Robber Court"
because I cannot doubt its intent to rob us of the last few remnants of
New Deal humanitarianism -- the Assange case is merely another tombstone
in the graveyard of U.S. democratic process.
But
-- as my Tory ancestors might have told themselves after they were
raped and beaten and tarred-and-feathered and harried into exile -- one
could hardly expect better from a nation founded by Southron slave-owners and their New England bankers to protect slavery and preserve the enormous profits generated by unpaid captive laborers.
"American
democracy" is thus revealed -- at least to the remaining few of us not
already brain-warped either to stupefied babbling or submissive silence
-- as naught but the most flagrantly dishonest of white Christian
Europe's serf-and-slave realms.
Nor
are the horrors implicit in this damning truth any way diminished by
the fact the Imperial U.S. is ruled not by a single dictator, but by a
mostly anonymous, ever-more-omnipotent cabal of plutocrats -- the unapologetically evil upper echilon of the One Percent aristocracy.
Thus
with its malignancy disguised by intricately woven deceptions, the
United States has become the most deadly threat to survival in the
history of Planet Earth.
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HERE IS a brief review of Zenger's significance. The Printer's Trial: the Case of John Peter Zenger and the Fight for a Free Press (Gail Jarrow; Calkins Creek: 2006) tells us that after Zenger's acquittal on a charge of criminal libel, "British governors were reluctant to charge...
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