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DISSIDENTS THE WEST WORSE THAN THE SOVIET\u00a0BLOC<\/span><\/h2>\n
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We\u2019re used to Russian, Chinese, Iranian and Saudi Arabian dissidents. However, the most notorious deniers of free speech are found under upturned rocks in the West.<\/p>\n

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Investigative journalist Julian Assange sought sanctuary in London\u2019s tiny Ecuadorian embassy in 2012. The whistle-blower refuses to be silenced. The Australian has been awarded\u00a0more than a dozen journalism awards. Once evicted under a dodgy-deal, blackmail and bribery, Assange faces life imprisonment, perhaps a death sentence.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a clerical error by the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in Alexandria, Virginia, the existence of\u00a0sealed criminal charges\u00a0against the Wikileaks founder has been confirmed.<\/p>\n

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What is typically left out is that Wikileaks originally released the diplomatic cables in piecemeal form, with names removed to\u00a0prevent loss of life and minimize harm.\u00a0It was only after a\u00a0Guardian\u00a0<\/em>journalist\u2019s error led to the full legally edited cables leaking to third parties on the web\u00a0that Wikileaks also published them. Assange\u00a0even\u00a0attempted to warn the office of Hillary Clinton,\u00a0then U.S. Secretary of State.<\/p>\n

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In other words, Wikileaks behaved precisely as any responsible journalist would in handling sensitive material should by removing information that could cause harm. The removals stopped only when they became pointless.\u00a0The Pentagon later\u00a0admitted under oath\u00a0that they could not find any instances of individuals losing their lives as a result of being named in Manning\u2019s leaks to Wikileaks.<\/p>\n

When it comes to negligence a far stronger case can be made against Hillary Clinton for the way she handled State Department emails. Yet, no criminal charges have been laid against a woman mired in corruption and whose snail-trail lies over a score of corpses.<\/p>\n

Assange is being targeted because he dared to challenge the western establishment but he is far from alone. Western governments routinely target scores of news reporting dissidents.<\/p>\n

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Imprisoned in Germany merely for investigating holocaust related fraud; Ursula Haverbeck (90), lawyer Sylvia Stolz, Music tutor Monika Schaeffer and her brother Alfred Schaeffer. In France, Professor Robert Faurisson, Brigitte Bardot, and Vincent Reynouard. The list of Western dissidents is as long and silent as are the names on the Cenotaph situated in Whitehall.<\/p>\n

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Any who associated with Julian Assange are pursued. Another well-known dissident is the National Security Agency (NSA) whistle-blower Edward Snowden. It was a time of globalist unease at the power of the internet to undermine authority.<\/p>\n

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Who would have thought that the highest court in Europe would\u00a0uphold a case\u00a0in which a woman was prosecuted for blasphemy against Islam? Who would have thought that Britain, the supposed birthplace of liberalism and the free press would\u00a0ban an independent journalist from its shores\u00a0for satirising the same religion?<\/p>\n

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Who would have thought that Germany, whose living memory of the totalitarian Stasi is just three decades old, would put its largest opposition party\u00a0under surveillance?\u00a0Just a few years ago, all three would sound far-fetched. But cases like these have become common as elites in virtually every western country mount a panicked attempt to contain the rise of populism.<\/p>\n

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A case in point is Tommy Robinson, the British critic of Islam who was dragged through Britain\u2019s courts on fuzzy contempt-of-court charges. Sentenced to an astounding thirteen-month imprisonment, Robinson was eventually freed after a successful appeal. Robinson now\u00a0awaits a final trial\u00a0before Britain\u2019s Attorney General. Shaky charges that have been successfully appealed were exploited to persecute a British citizen who was inconvenient to the establishment.<\/p>\n

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Alison Chabloz is endlessly re-cycled through British courts at the urging of Jewish special interest groups. She has been sentenced, fined and ordered to work for the State without charge.<\/p>\n

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Her crime, she satirises the spin of World War II propagandists. Again in Britain, Jez Turner is sentenced to 12 months in prison merely for publicly stating that Britain\u2019s regime is overly influenced by Zionists; ironically, Zionists boast much the same thing.<\/p>\n

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In the self-styled cradle of democracy, one of the last European countries to give voting rights to men and women, Michael Walsh was handed down 6 x 4-month prison sentences for publishing fliers critical of immigration.<\/p>\n

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Britain routinely bans foreign politicians and media figures from the country for being right-wing.\u00a0\u00a0Michael Savage,\u00a0Geert Wilders,\u00a0Lauren Southern,\u00a0Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer\u00a0all enjoy this dubious distinction. Theresa May, who was responsible for internal affairs and immigration when Spencer and Geller were banned, is the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s White House, supposedly an ally of populists, failed to intervene on behalf of the American citizens banned from the U.K. for expressing populist viewpoints.<\/p>\n

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Julian Assange, a leftist oriented libertarian may share little ideological ground with right-wing critics of Islam. But they all share at least one thing: persecution by the Western States coupled with anti-establishment political speech or activities.<\/p>\n

We also see attacks on free speech, with governments and politicians across the West pressuring Silicon Valley to suppress its critics. These toxic unaccountable, unelected elite can sweep away a person\u2019s livelihood in minutes, and cut their political message off from millions of American citizens.\u00a0 PayPal, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook routinely disconnect the accounts of even small \u2018c\u2019 conservatives.<\/p>\n

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Undeniably, the West is as repressive as was the former Soviet Bloc. Who would have thought that countries like Ecuador, Russia, and Iran would offer sanctuary, safe passage and freedom to speak to Western dissidents; journalists, authors, poets, writers, libertarians and political activists?<\/p>\n

Edward Snowden faces life in Russia as an exile for revealing the National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance of Americans. Before that, he sought refuge in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n

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