Free Julian Assange!

And now this:

Our State Department’s house elf, Mr. P. J. Crowley, a slinking toady who speaks publicly for Secretary of State Ms. Clinton, says,

“Obviously, the fact that Julian Assange has been arrested in Britain is a matter between Britain and Sweden; the United States does not take a position on the merits of that particular warrant from Interpol for his arrest. We have, and continue to condemn what Julian Assange and WikiLeaks has done; in our view, he has done substantial damage to the interests of the United States, and the interests of other countries.”

Quite to the contrary, obviously, the people of the other countries, like the people of the United States, view the matter rather differently.

Virtually all of us understand perfectly well that the interests of the United States’ government have been, and continue to be in direct opposition to the interests of the people.

The fact that Julian Assange has been arrested in Britain is emphatically not simply a matter between the governments of Sweden and the U. K.

The long arm of the ruling regime in the U. S. A. is reaching out over the seas to strong-arm its vassals, in plain view to all, in a desperate attempt to silence the estimable Mr. Assange, the world’s present epitome of courage, in his truth-telling heroism.

The government of the United States is not on the side of justice, truth and liberty, as you may have guessed.

Just yesterday, one of Fox News’ nominal Democrat commentators, a Mr. Bob Beckel, said he wanted Julian Assange illegally killed; he said that American Special Forces should do that.

He said, “a dead man can’t leak stuff; this guy’s a traitor, he’s treasonous, he’s broken every law of the United States. I’m not for the death penalty, so there’s only one way to do it – illegally shoot the son-of-a-bitch . . . ,” and so on.

(The intrepid Mr. Beckel is also a columnist for USA Today. In 1984, he was Walter Mondale’s campaign manager. Early in his career, Mr. Beckel joined the Department of State, and became the youngest Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter administration. He was a co-host of “Crossfire Sunday” on CNN, alongside Tony Snow, and later, Lynne Cheney; he has moved on to Fox News Channel as a political analyst and commentator, regularly appearing on such shows as “Hannity and Colmes,” “Hannity,” and “America’s Newsroom.”)

Will Barack Obama’s Attorney General now respond, and move swiftly to arrest the makers of such public death threats – of which Mr. Beckel’s is indeed in prominent company?

That will happen just as soon, I imagine, as the White House criminals of the former Bush-Cheney junta will be collared and shackled.

Are you beginning to see now, dear Virginia, how the interests of your present government are not at all in your own best interests?

For my part, I’ll say this: If Julian Assange, who is an Australian national, is a traitor to the United States, then so am I. I am a U.S. citizen by birth. And, like all people of political discernment and good will, I am a natural enemy of the United States’ government.

I support whole-heartedly, and applaud all that WikiLeaks has done to make public the multitudinous and global evildoings of the United States.