PAUL EDWARDS—In an era when the United States has committed a vast catalog of vile, unthinkable horrors, and amassed a catalog of the most flagrantly, damningly criminal humanitarian abuses of any empire in the history of the world, the sadistic persecution of Assange stands out as uniquely vicious and perverse.
Assange’s offense, the act that cost him fourteen years of his life, unimaginable mental suffering, and some physical damage, was to collect and release incontestable evidence that showed the world the moral putrescence of The American Empire in action.