Journal Magada's Journal: Assange as a Leninist revolutionary 2
Here's my conspiracy theory, for what it's worth:
What Assange is doing, unfortunately, is not journalism or info-war, but info-revolution (despite his claims to the contrary).
He is setting himself and his followers up, quite carefully and deliberately, for martyrdom. All he does is calculated to provoke the governments of the world (the US especially) into over-reacting, in the hopes that they will thus mobilize and radicalize enough people for a global Intifada to happen in a generation or so.
Have any of you considered what would happen if Assange is declared a terrorist by the US? Suddenly everyone in the US or abroad who ever helped him, supported him or gave him money will become a terrorist too in the eyes of the US government and their bodies, property and even identities will be forfeit. We're talking hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people who would suddenly find themselves on a no-fly list at the very least. Some would doubtlessly get all-expenses paid trips to Gitmo or sunny Afghanistan.
Most of the people who would be disappeared have families. All those families would start thinking really seriously about blowing stuff up and toppling governments.
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Umm. I'm referring to Lenin's thesis - it has to get worse before it gets better and that therefore the task of the revolutionary in the pre-revolutionary period is to raise six kinds of hell so that things DO get worse for the Average Joe.