“What really worries me is the inertia of the wider public; they are aware and yet they don’t really care about it.”
RT
The UK’s decision to extradite WikiLeaks co-founder Julian
Assange to the US should be taken as a warning to all liberals who still
have any faith in ‘American liberal democracy,’ says cultural
philosopher Slavoj Zizek.
“The nightmare is that the accuser was directly invited to take possession of all these documents. This breaks even the elementary the norms of legality,” Zizek explained.
“The message is, ‘Yes, we will be brutal beyond measure.’”
Zizek drew particular attention to the sheer brutality of the coordinated effort against the whistleblower after he exposed the US government and military’s gross misdeeds.
“It’s always an ominous signal when measures against a threatened individual are done in such a directly brutal way that this very brutality means something,” he said.
Zizek also railed against so-called liberals back across the pond in the UK arguing that “those in the UK who are most fervent advocates of Assange’s extradition, are not conservatives but more centrist Blairite wing of the Labour Party.”
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