You call being holed up in one or perhaps two rooms to the point that you've forgotten what sunlight looks like enjoying personal protection? I am willing to concede there are things about this story we do not know, but the idea that he's being protected by anything other than inviolable foreign embassy protocol is not logical.
The PTB is subject to mistakes and poor execution, pun not intended. They also cannot kill all adversaries at will whenever they feel like. There are processes enacted in order to coverup effectively, which don't always go as planned. Of course there have been countless whistleblowers murdered or suicided, but I maintain Assange got lucky, and/or had a hand from providence. If you read his deposition of November 2016, he tells the entire story of moving from place to place with help from a loyal group of friends, and trying to avoid situations that would lead to his assassination. He eventually fell prey to a setup which put him in the situation of potentially being thrown in jail. The rape story was a fabrication through and through, and had things gone according to plan, Assange would have been in a Swedish Jail long ago, and then renditioned to the U.S.A. to disappear forever. I believe that was plan A of the PTB, but it went south because Assange is smarter than them.
Remember, when you're handed lemons, you make lemonade, and by my reckoning, the intelligence community was handed a whole plantation of lemon trees by Assange time and again, and in the absence of being able to kill or capture him, they would love nothing better than to have people (especially followers) fall for the contingency that Assange is a Russian Agent, protected, double agent, or some other deception.
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ASolo ago
I'm sure he has some personal vendetta's, but you don't enjoy this level of personal protection without a connection.
rwb ago
You call being holed up in one or perhaps two rooms to the point that you've forgotten what sunlight looks like enjoying personal protection? I am willing to concede there are things about this story we do not know, but the idea that he's being protected by anything other than inviolable foreign embassy protocol is not logical.
ASolo ago
Think about it. If it was you or I reporting this level of corruption around the world we'd already be dead.
Chakana369 ago
Yeah but we are not famous are we? Bump us off and no one would even know, or care...
Laskar ago
Agreed.
NeoGoat ago
Why hasn't he been seen through a window in many months?
archons ago
We will never see him at the window again. If he is ever shown in public again people better look for facial surgery marks.
rwb ago
The PTB is subject to mistakes and poor execution, pun not intended. They also cannot kill all adversaries at will whenever they feel like. There are processes enacted in order to coverup effectively, which don't always go as planned. Of course there have been countless whistleblowers murdered or suicided, but I maintain Assange got lucky, and/or had a hand from providence. If you read his deposition of November 2016, he tells the entire story of moving from place to place with help from a loyal group of friends, and trying to avoid situations that would lead to his assassination. He eventually fell prey to a setup which put him in the situation of potentially being thrown in jail. The rape story was a fabrication through and through, and had things gone according to plan, Assange would have been in a Swedish Jail long ago, and then renditioned to the U.S.A. to disappear forever. I believe that was plan A of the PTB, but it went south because Assange is smarter than them.
Remember, when you're handed lemons, you make lemonade, and by my reckoning, the intelligence community was handed a whole plantation of lemon trees by Assange time and again, and in the absence of being able to kill or capture him, they would love nothing better than to have people (especially followers) fall for the contingency that Assange is a Russian Agent, protected, double agent, or some other deception.
privatepizza ago
Excellent post