Off Guardian – by Kit Knightly
With [the] arrest of Julian Assange, we thought it important to remember WHY he was in the Empire’s crosshairs. The video Collateral Murder (below) is WikiLeaks’ most famous, most shocking release. Footage of US military personnel murdering civilians and journalists and laughing about it.
This is the shortened version, the full unedited footage can be found here, with notes transcripts and accompanying memos and press-releases available here.
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths occurred.
As shocking as the footage is, it is only a microcosm of the horrors inflicted on Iraq (and other countries of the Middle East), in the name of “freedom and democracy”. Realising the truth, that our leaders have no values, and our much vaunted armed forces can be peopled by violent psychopaths, is an important journey for everyone. A journey that Julian Assange, and WikiLeaks, started for a lot of people.
His reward for that service has been public ridicule, a deprivation of his rights, and now an illegal arrest. Chelsea Manning, who leaked the footage, was held in solitary confinement for years, and was recently arrested again, for refusing to testify against Assange and WikiLeaks. (UPDATE: It is now evident that Assange was handed over as a result of a dirty backdoor deal).
As of April 13th 2019, the people who started that war are not in prison, they are not ostracised or shunned or punished in any way. They are free to make speeches about Brexit, or be branded “adorable” because they hand out candy to other war criminals and their wives.
The criminals run free, the victims are unavenged, and the brave who speak out are savagely silenced.
“As shocking as the footage is, it is only a microcosm of the horrors inflicted on Iraq (and other countries of the Middle East), in the name of “freedom and democracy”.
More accurately, in the name of the talmudic world order for Israel. And many Americans are all too happy to enlist to do it thinking they share values and culture, and to some extent such as this, they do.
“Realising the truth, that our leaders have no values, and our much vaunted armed forces can be peopled by violent psychopaths, is an important journey for everyone.”
Something anyone with a shred of decency should’ve known long ago. They laugh at the murder of civilians, lust to shoot more, and at the end of a day of murder based on lies and hatred, they can say they were just following orders. I will have no pity on any of them when they meet their day and answer for their actions. Lap dogs of Israel, propped up not by courage or a sense of justice and morality, but by the interest/debt bearing loans issued by their Zionist masters that buy their weapons, pay for their college and give them jobs to serve the Zionist masters in going to war for them, giving them numbers that make them feel empowered. But that won’t last forever, so laugh now. You will find that crying later is your reward. And you’ll find that it was those who propped you up so high that will drop you hard so low. That day will come and there will be no quarter for you bastards. Only the privilege of watching what you’ve done now happen to you, your homes, your children and families and the media owned by the Zionist pigs will paint you as the terrorists or insurgents, who deserved it for being in the battle zone. And when you realize it all, and you know you can’t escape it, I will rejoice to know that you feel everything you’ve done for them.
I hope all the people who are talking in the video have committed suicide.