Welcome to the 217th Julian Assange Sydney Town Hall gathering.
It is important that we take control of ourselves. All human beings achieve amazing things when they are free to act for themselves. If we all take control of ourselves we will achieve amazing things, including freeing Julian Assange, and bringing about a truly free press.
Governments and media are about manipulation and control. They don’t care about our mental or physical health, but they do care about what we think and do.
Governments and media, paint a bleak outlook, that involves reasoning that we all need to be fearful about crime, terrorism, disease, climate change, and misinformation. These narratives invariably share the suggestion that we need to forego our human rights, to avoid something that threatens our very existence. The narratives of government and media are narratives of control, and are invariably based on lies. We need to let go of these negative narratives. They are not motivated by truth and they don’t serve us. The only people these narratives serve are the useless parasites who create them to manipulate us for power and profit!
We all need to realise that truth is vitally important for living optimally fulfilling lives. We cannot rely on others to tell us the truth. We must determine truth for ourselves. To determine the truth of anything, we need to evaluate the evidence. Evidence exists beyond the words of politicians and propagandists. We can gain good evidence through our interactions with our physical world but in modern complex societies, our direct experience often isn’t enough. Fortunately, we can gain reliable evidence from the existence of verifiable documents and data. We can learn the reality of governments and corporate activities through their own documents and data. Unfortunately, our governments and corporations have a habit of not being transparent. They routinely attempt to cloak their bureaucratic paper trails in secrecy. The secrecy serves the politicians and the objectives of their handlers, or anyone wishing to hide evidence of corrupt activities.
Julian Assange designed and developed a system of journalism which is capable of bringing transparency to governments, much to their disdain. Through WikiLeaks, Julian has published millions of documents making it possible for the general public to realise governments do much that we do not necessarily approve of.
Politicians like to tell everyone that they believe in freedom of the press, yet politicians are responsible for the imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange for freely publishing in the public interest.
We need a new narrative, in which we are in control of ourselves, and are able to evaluate evidence and arrive at the truth. Truth will bring us certainty and trust! The actions of Julian Assange set a new course for history, which involves ordinary people in possession of the truth. Join us in the pursuit of truth! Join us in helping to free Julian Assange.
Free, free Julian Assange
Free, free Julian Assange
Free, free Julian Assange