Julian Assange is free

Julian Assange is a free man. That is not a thing many people thought they would ever say. This has to be admitted. Although through his long imprisonment many hoped and worked to get him free, this will set a precedent in history I think, as a victory for human rights and civil liberties. I was just thinking that the image many people saw of Julian being carried out of the Ecuadorian embassy with two books clutched in his hand, that image looks different now that he’s free. As far as what the public at large saw, the story led from that image to the plea entered on Saipan where he said that he believed the Espionage Act and the First Amendment were still in contradiction with one another. And it shows or should show, Julian’s bravery throughout this process.

All I can add, is that through it all, Julian stayed ever the intellectual in the broadest sense of the term.

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Structurally sound assumptions may be made by simply denying all assumptions that may be made until they prove themselves otherwise. This is why science is still so relevant because science is the purest natural expression of logic. However, such an important distinction and framing needs the further question: for what does logic serve human beings? The straightest answer I can give you is, while some will claim that a sound assumption denies its opposite, the truth is that a denial of the truth denies itself, and that’s why the truth is true, since Socrates. The establishment of truth has been difficult since then. Do you follow what I’m saying? Logically speaking, logic is truth, but truth is not logic. So we enter a dialectic. The distinction but not difference between facts and actualities is the difference in making sense of it here. The truth is a fact that became an actuality.

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