Julian Assange Declared Enemy of the State

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"So it's very, very serious. That's one possibility, or possibly very likely, from reading these documents, (it appears) that WikiLeaks is an enemy and Julian Assange is an enemy."

"The other possibility is that WikiLeaks is the means by which this military analyst is communicating with the enemy. She's turning over documents." 

"She never did, but she's allegedly possibly going to turn over documents to WikiLeaks, which then, by doing that, she's communicating with the enemy, because WikiLeaks is going to publish them, and al-Qaeda or somebody who the US has already designated an enemy is going to read them."

Either possibility is terrible for Assange, WikiLeaks, and journalists. 

"It's terrible because if WikiLeaks is an enemy--I've already said how serious that would be if Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are an enemy--if they're the means of communicating with the enemy, they could still be charged--WikiLeaks could be charged--with aiding the enemy, could be arrested under the National Defense Authorization Act, could be kept at Guantà ¡namo, etc."

Washington refuses to say one way or another if Assange is targeted for prosecution. If not, why not say so? Why persist with the ruse of extraditing him to Sweden on bogus charges. The scheme, of course, is first get him there. Then ship him off to gulag hell in America.

It's no secret. Obama officials want blood. They want Assange, Manning and other whistleblowers hung out to dry. They want no interference in imperial plans abroad or repressive homeland ones.

Doing so makes perpetrators vulnerable. Hegemons show no mercy. US ruthlessness is well known. It's longstanding. It's worse now than ever. Millions of corpses and the largest prison gulag in the world attest to is viciousness.

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