through h4x0r3d's eyes

The West failed in the face of critics: #Assange, #Anonymous, #Occupy - who rests with the system is declared the offender and has to fear for his safety. - #OpESR

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Julian Assange is a refugee . But he does not escape from the law. But against what is wrong. He knows what it could bloom. Assange has humiliated America. It will have no mercy when it will get hold of him. And the extradition to Sweden, before the WikiLeaks founder now wants to protect, would be the first step on a long journey that could with a sentence of a few hundred years end in some windowless hole of an American high-security prison.

The allegations in Sweden against Julian Assange there are questionable. It’s about the suspicion of rape in minor cases, and to sexual assault and harassment. Assange denies the allegations, called a smear campaign.

“Taz” recommends Assange, the message to leave and to be extradited to Sweden and know perfectly well: “If the allegations prove to be unfounded, he is a free man” We can congratulate our colleagues at the Dutschke-Straße to the fact that they still have such confidence in the rule of law.

Doubts about the rule of law

There are good reasons to doubt that this idea of the rule of law. Who is this law in the way can be prepared for a lot: Corporal Bradley Manning , probably the most important source for WikiLeaks was spent ten months in solitary confinement. Pillows and sheets were denied to him for a while. He had to leave his clothes at night and in the morning to take multiple naked outside his cell. Physical exercises in the cell were banned him. The light was on constantly. That is the rule of law.

We are witnessing a serious crisis of legitimacy of the West. Assange, Anonymous , Occupy - these are the symptoms of this. What is law and what is perceived as law goes further and further apart.

The law is clear: It is forbidden to publish documents on national security. It is forbidden to break into the databases of credit card companies. It is forbidden to occupy public land road. And because all that is prohibited is the matter with Assange, Anonymous and Occupy simple: See, accuse pass sentence.

And by the way: It is actually forbidden to sing in a Russian Orthodox church punk prayers.

The law protects not always work right, we see how the Americans do in their wars neither their own nor otherwise entitled. We see how our society has become a hostage to the greed of the criminal actors in the financial centers. We do not tolerate that the institutions that are supposed to protect the welfare of the many from access by the interests of the few, are bypassed or ignored. And we abide, like those who are opposed rebel pursued by security forces and criminalized.

The trust is broken

It is not in our system, provided that the people take matters into their own hands: “We have parliaments and courts, that the rule of law,” said “time” co-editor Josef Joffe did when WikiLeaks, the State Department files was published.

But torture in Abu Ghraib , the waterboarding in CIA prisons, the Mow down unarmed civilians in Afghanistan - much of what the United States has in recent years brought into dangerous proximity to the unjust regimes in the Middle East, to China and the defunct Soviet Union , came to light because people like Julian Assange did not rely on “Parliaments and courts.”

Our system will people every few years to vote - and then silence.

The system - which is not a left folklore phrase from a seventies Suhrkamp anthology, but really cool. After the WikiLeaks publications have MasterCard and Visa denied the donation processing for the organization and Amazon has withdrawn the WikiLeaks made available server capacity. Just like that.

The system is determined by its network of power and interests, and it is held by the majority opinion, the implied that everything is in order. But the order is broken. The trust has been broken.