The martyrdoms are meant to teach the rest of us a lesson. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
Both Julian Assange and Ross Ulbricht have been condemned to frightening prisons: Assange for daring to expose the truth and Ulbricht for daring to build a free market. Legal vocabulary just clouds the issue; they’re in prison for truth and markets… and for acting on their own will.
Those of us who’ve paid attention know that “the law,” as applied to both men, was driven by the necessities of power: Assange was setup and the legal processes used against him were rigged. Ulbricht’s trial was manipulated and his sentence was based upon charges that were never tried.
These men, then, are martyrs… our martyrs.
Their martyrdoms, however, service power in a strange way.
That would be the Solzhenitsyn lesson about how we burned in the camps later.
Fear a queefy femme neurotic necrophobic fading banana republic regime and its rumps?
LOL!
This just in from In Flagranti:
Just Gazing
(I’m the One, You’re the One) foot taps