How To Think About Julian Assange and Necessity of the Bipartisan Movement to Free Him
I’ve changed my views a lot but not on this. Free Assange. And Ross Ulbricht.
I recently had occasion to have drinks with Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, after a chance encounter at the Tabard Inn. The Tabard Inn is one of those sorts of places and Shipton told me that that its late proprietor backed the cause of freeing his brother, which makes me happy to have spent my birthday there a few years ago.
Gabriel Shipton and his father, John Shipton, visited me in Washington a few years back and I’ve been an enthusiastic backer of freeing his half-brother, Julian Assange. (Gabriel and Julian share a father — John — but have different mothers.)
Congressman Paul Gosar was in attendance at that meeting and we had this rather funny moment where two Mexican men took the photo of us during Pride Month 2022. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
You might recall that I met with Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in August of 2017 — and quickly found myself targeted by the Israelis who, through their agent the late Sheldon Adelson, had been surveilling the Australian. Through their puppet — CIA director Mike Pompeo — the Israelis tried to kill Assange. Indeed part of the reason Assange is in Belmarsh prison is because the Brits had gotten word of several assassination attempts against Assange by the Israelis.
These facts make it especially disturbing the role that Ambassador Ric Grenell and Arthur Schwartz played in trying to harm Assange during the Trump presidency. Grenell worked as Acting Director of National Intelligence and essentially did whatever the Israelis wanted.
In recent years, the Zionist Organization of America — where Schwartz serves as a bag man — has operated as a Likud front in the United States. Schwartz is also close to the Republican Jewish Coalition, whose founder Matthew Brooks targeted me after Congressman Matt Gaetz invited me to the State of the Union. We now know this reputational assassination campaign was payback for me having the temerity to question the Israeli influence of the Trump Administration.
The way the hustle works is that Schwartz gets paid as an “advisor” by a few companies, like Blackstone. He doesn’t last long. Of course, Schwartz was drummed out of AIG executive Hank Greenberg’s orbit.
Grenell, for his part, was closely tied into Jan Marsalek, the Austrian Wirecard executive who has since been outed as a decade long Russian asset. Left unexplored is the relationship between Marsalek and the Israeli world and whether the Republican Jewish Coalition serves a front for the Russians. How else can we explain Republican Jewish Coalition-endorsed conman and congressman George Santos’s trips to Russia and closeness to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg?
In a just country both Grenell and Schwartz would be arrested for treason. But we don’t live in that country… yet.
A resolution calling for the Department of Justice to drop all charges against Assange that Gosar co-sponsored has one of the oddest collection of congress people I’ve ever seen — Representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, and Jim McGovern of Massachusetts don’t have many times in which they are united but here they are.
Could this unity be because there’s now a bipartisan consensus emerging that the national security military industrial state isn’t in the interests of America but has been corrupted by Israeli interests? And that part of what we need to do to set it right is to pardon those who exposed the grift?
The reason that so many of our neocons wanted us in Afghanistan in perpetuity is so that no one glommed onto their con.
There’s a revisionist history that’s emerging here — see the Washington Monthly story about the neocon takeover of the Ford Administration — and it isn’t hard to see the much-discussed Atlantic story about the end of the “golden age of American Jews” as a harbinger of something larger stirring. Maybe the real problem has been the way in which American billionaires have been shaken down by these Zionists to fund their political magazines or pet causes?
For too long the Department of Justice has been complicit in the mass jailing of all kinds of people on the most dubious of charges but most pernicious has been the targeting of Anglo-Saxon nerds.
Is the interest of justice really served by having Ross Ulbricht die in federal prison, when serial fraudsters like Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz raise entire funds on crypto?
What precisely did America lose when Julian Assange published the Collateral Murder video which showed the human cost of our Zionist-inspired military interventions?
As with a lot of rackets this “persecute Assange” thing has become an industry. It needs to come to an end.
And we need to hunt down the Israelis and Russian and Chinese hackers who laundered the information they stole through Wikileaks. But that’s the subject for a different time. Believe you me I have not been uninvolved in the effort!