Yanis Varoufakis:
I visited Julian the other day
at Belmarsh Prison for the second time,
Britain’s Guantanamo.
He spends 23 hours every day,
for 3½ years in solitary confinement.
This is an attempt not to break him
but to kill him, it’s slow murder.
Of a man who’s not
been convicted…
has not been charged of anything
except journalism.
I find it astonishing that there were people
on the left who turned against Julian.
Newspapers like The Guardian who played
a role in his incarceration and vilification.
Julian is holding on.
Julian is not well.
Julian’s soul has been diminished
by solitary confinement.
It feels, he told me, as if his personhood
has been shrunk down to a tiny kernel.
And his hope is that if our campaign
for him to become free again succeeds…
that he can grow his personality
again from that kernel.
This is our duty.
If you care for your right to know
what your governments do…
behind your back,
in your name,
all those crimes against humanity
being perpetrated…
not only in battlefields
and invasions of foreign lands,
but also against our environment,
the secret deals with fossil fuel companies.
Then you must support Julian Assange.
Because Julian Assange is dying
for your right to know…
what your government is doing
on your behalf behind your back.
The mainstream media are part
of the cloud capital…
that is usurping
your mind, my mind, our mind.
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