The U.S. government did nothing for Gonzalo Lira and he died in a Ukrainian prison. That’s what happens to messengers bearing messages the government doesn’t want to hear. From Daniel McAdams at ronpaulinstitute.org:
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One call from the White House or State Department could have saved California-born journalist Gonzalo Lira’s life. Living in Ukraine-controlled Kharkov (to be close to his children), Lira saw early on, from his unique vantage point, that the propaganda being fed to the American people from the mainstream media about that “plucky little democracy” in Ukraine fighting to protect “our values” was, as is all pro-war propaganda, utterly false.
War propaganda. We don’t need to go down the whole line, but “yanking babies from incubators” and “giving Viagra to the troops” and “mobile rape vehicles” and “mobile chemical weapons delivery devices” and “these Iraqi weapons could decimate New York!” and so on and so on.
You know the routine. You know how war propaganda works.
And you know how furious the US regime becomes when anyone dares to refute that war propaganda.
When Julian Assange dared reveal to the American people that their own government was not on a “liberation” mission but rather on a murder mission in Iraq, the permanent state began plotting its revenge. When Wikileaks exposed the secret murder and surveillance workings of the CIA, Assange’s fate was sealed. His whistleblower organization became, in the words of neocon former CIA director Mike Pompeo, a “hostile intelligence service,” a determination Assange himself explained to Ron Paul Institute DC Conference attendees in 2017.
This ignores the fact that you have to *ask* for help from USGov, and he didn’t. He was sending military info to the Russians, and got caught, and put under house arrest, then tried to escape to Hungary, was caught and put in prison. This video tells a more accurate story: