Hang On, Is THIS Why Assange Was Freed?

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Julian Assange is free. But what led to the plea deal, and why now?

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Julian nange has been released in a way
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this seems epocal and extraordinary and
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many people will see it as a victory
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indeed on a human level on a personal
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level it is a victory he's United with
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Stella his wife and his children once
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more that's extraordinary to see the
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images of Julian Assange getting on a
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jet and like looking at his face and
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wondering what he must be feeling is
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kind of exciting and inspiring It's
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Curious that he has had to plead guilty
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in a bargain with the United States to
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the crime of Espionage making him the
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first journalist to be successfully
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prosecuted with that I think that's a
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fact of the matter there will be more
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details after he reaches a Pacific
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island where there will be a trial and
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presumably it seems a sentencing
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equivalent to the time he spent in
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belmarsh without one you might be
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wondering why Julian Assange is guilty
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of Espionage you might be wondering why
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Julian Assange is guilty of anything
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this is what Julian Assange is guilty of
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people will say stuff like Julian
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Assange is guilty of putting American
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troops and service Personnel in danger
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that's the kind of thing people will say
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but this is what Julian Assange is
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actually guilty of pay attention to this
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and think for a moment I wonder when it
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was that Julian Assange was saying this
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I'm not sure but it's probably like 10
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years ago cuz he weren't in the
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Ecuadorian Embassy when he was saying it
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and he weren't in Belmont harsh when he
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was saying it and it's about 7 years
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accumulatively that he's been in one of
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those places maybe even a little longer
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now we live in a space now where perhaps
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all of us that occupy these spaces are
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in a sense the progeny of the likes of
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those early outliers in those spaces and
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you might say you choose a hero maybe
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you were really into the David Ike
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perspective maybe you love gome Chomsky
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or Naomi Klein maybe you were really
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into Alex Jones 30 years deep or maybe
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you are a fan of Julian Assange and what
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he has done and what he's subsequently
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been accused of to have a look at this
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clip of Julian Assange this is the
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Julian Assange that they jailed because
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the goal is not to completely subjugate
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Afghanistan the goal is to use
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Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax
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bases of the United States out of the
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tax bases of European countries through
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Afghanistan and back into the hands of a
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transational security that is the goal
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I.E the goal is to have an endless war
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not a successful War now what Julian
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Assange describes In that clip is
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something that we all well now
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understand oh there are provocations and
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causes for international Wars that drain
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the coffers of independent Sovereign
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Nations taxpayers fund these wars it
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seems that the money loops around
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somehow ends up in the hands of the
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military industrial complex do you
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imagine that there are similarities
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between the Afghanistan conflict and the
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Ukraine Russia conflict and what's
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happening across the Middle East right
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now let me know in the comments and the
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chat as well as declaring publicly as
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well as providing evidence thanks to The
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Bravery of Chelsea Manning that the
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American Military in particular were
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behaving corruptly and let's call it
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what it was a legally he also said stuff
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like this this is another defining
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Julian Assange statement what's the
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difference between Mark Zuckerberg and
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me says Assange I give private
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information on corporations to you for
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free and I'm a villain zukerberg gives
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your private information to corporations
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for money and he's Man of the Year
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Julian Assange is free for now and
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across the internet you can see numerous
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people posting how excited they are how
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pleased they are and yet what an
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injustice it remains although there is a
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curious post from Mike Pence now have a
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look at this Julian Assange endangered
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the lives of our troops in a time of war
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and should have been prosecuted to the
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fullest extent of the law the Biden
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administration's plead deal with Assange
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is a miscarriage of justice and
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dishonors the service and sacrifice of
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the men and women of our armed forces
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and their families there should be no
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plea deals to avoid prison for anyone
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that endangers the security of our
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military or even the National Security
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of the United States ever what's
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extraordinary about this primarily is
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that is the perspective that prevails
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that is the idea that's led to Julian
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Assange being prosecuted successfully
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under the SPN AR act and having been
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incarcerated without trial for the last
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seven years Mike Pence is tone death Out
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Of Tune Madness which you could unpack
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in Myriad ways you could say for example
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well isn't it pretty extraordinary that
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22 American Service Personnel take their
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own lives every single day is that an
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indication that perhaps there are other
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ways we could honor and support the
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troops there are military families and
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military veterans watching this right
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now you know how you feel about your
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government you know how you feel about
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the United States and its relationship
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with large corporations and its plainly
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globalist agenda and you know who side
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Julian Assange was on and it's your side
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and that's the reason Julian Assange was
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incarcerated in the way that he was
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what's astonishing about Mike Pence's
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remarks is even though to you and to me
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and surely to any right thinking person
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they would seem like the rantings of a
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lunatic they are in effect the imperat
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and imprint of the Mind Of The
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Establishment and they are not
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theoretical that's how Assange was
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treated and is using that mentality that
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people can perpetu those ideas you can't
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speak out against the nation why the
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average service Personnel member would
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be put into all sorts of Jeopardy how
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long will we allow them to divide us on
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that basis I would say not for a lot
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longer and that's thanks primarily to
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Heroes like Julian Assange there are
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others but Julian Assange today in
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particular we should celebrate and I
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would rather hear the opinion of no one
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more than that of Coast guy that's how
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you can follow him on x Neil Oliver Neil
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welcome in Earnest to the show thank you
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very much Russell great to hear you uh
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great to hear your thoughts on Julian
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Assange what do you feel we can learn
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not only from the imprisonment of isange
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which I'm sure you and I are guessing
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alignment on but why is he being
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released now do you think it's connected
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to the November elections in the United
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States and do you think that it's
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connected even to the forthcoming
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debates well I think it's it's hard to
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imagine that it wasn't done with out of
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some kind of political expediency I'm
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I'm sure it is to do with the fact that
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they're in we're in the rundown to
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elections in November and uh everyone
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involved is trying to appeal to their to
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their base and and to and to you know
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develop an idea in in the public mind of
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the kind of people that that they are
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Joe Biden and his his team I'm sure that
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they had to get they have to get this uh
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prosecution uh because otherwise I can
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imagine uh there might be the
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possibility of uh appeals and demands
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for compensation for all that wrongful
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imprisonment without trial but I suppose
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if if they get uh Julian Assange to
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plead guilty to something that lets
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them jail him as it were reverse
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engineer jail sentence so that they can
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but I mean more than anything else Trudy
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my wife and I were talking about it this
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morning you know that there it's 15
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years that this has been going on for
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him this this Detention of one form or
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another and you know my youngest child
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is is 16 now uh I I must have been I
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would have been about
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42 uh when when Julian Assan began this
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uh this unbelievable Odyssey of
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detention and to lose that much of your
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life you know when I think that I I've
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watched I've watched my little boy my
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youngest grow up from he first appeared
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to you know today he's in fifth year in
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high school and that Julian Assange has
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spent all of that time either you know
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in the embassy or in B Marsh is just
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Unthinkable as a fellow human being
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almost regardless of what he was accused
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of I I just find that an unthinkable
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Prospect you know because you can't get
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that back you don't get those those
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years back back um it has all of the
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implications that that everyone has
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talked about for the longest time about
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what it means for freedom of speech that
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the idea that a publisher because what
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he didn't he didn't hack that
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information he was provided with
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information and he then published it
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which is what Publishers do and the fact
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that he was singled out when a lot of
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the same content was published by other
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organs and other outlets and nothing
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happened to then the whole the whole
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weight of the uh the attack against the
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publication of that material fell on the
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shoulders of one man everything about it
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just absolutely reeks of of Injustice it
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WS of threat to freedom of speech it it
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raises all sorts of questions about
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democracy all of these things but again
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basically I just think about if I had if
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I had missed the last 15 years of of my
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life being stuck in one box or another I
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don't know how you retain your sanity
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and how you get Beyond it some people
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would argue Neil that we do spend our
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lives moving from box to box vehicle to
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room incarcerated in many tangental and
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perhaps abstract ways which are
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certainly preferable to the very real
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ways that Julian Assange was
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incarcerated in belmarsh one of the
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aspects of this matter that intrigues me
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is the way that Julian Assange went from
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kind of darling of the Legacy Media
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backed by the guardian New York's times
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the spegel all those things like he was
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a kind of princeling a radical I
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remember prior in particular to the
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accusations of sexual assault that
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mysteriously emerged that he was seen as
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a kind of you an icon broadly speaking
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of if not the left but I would say the
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left the an anti-establishment figure
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politics is changed so much in that time
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he's again one of those figures that you
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can use to track the way that the
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culture more broadly has changed Assange
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was abandoned by the left he was
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abandoned by the Legacy Media I'm not
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saying everyone on the left I know for
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example someone like Jeremy Corbin has
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always been very uh outspoken and
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supportive of Assange so that's too much
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for a generalization but what do you
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think it tells us that all of those
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Legacy Media Outlets turned their back
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on Assange was that a pivotal moment was
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that one of the moments when the Legacy
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Media was once more resolutely co-opted
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by The Establishment uh chided and cowed
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by the power of the establishment I
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think some of us will recall like that I
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think like MI5 went into the guardian
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offices with like um like uh sort of
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jigsaws and axe Grinders and just you
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know like terrified the Legacy Media so
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is Julian Assange a pivotal figure in
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the sort of the breakdown of the kind of
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Journalism that him and Greenwell at
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that time and who was similarly a
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darling of the left like was it a
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pivotal moment not just for him not just
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for justice not not just for war
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reporting but somehow for our whole
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culture Neil I think it revealed a
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reality that was there for a long time
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uh but that had been it had been
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convenient or it had been possible or it
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had been expedient uh to keep it out of
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sight uh and then and then the the time
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came I think when uh those days were
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over I'd also mention George Galloway
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was a was a trenching uh supporter of uh
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Julian right from the very beginning you
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know as you see there were there were
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various voices not not enough and I I
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can't claim it I you know I I was I was
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inexcusably oblivious to a lot of it for
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the longest time uh but there were there
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were voices out there who were doing the
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right thing but I think what was exposed
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I genuinely think what was exposed uh
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was uh we are and for and for an unknown
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unspecified period we've been in the
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grip of a crime syndicate or or
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competing crime syndicates and when it
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when it finally uh suited when those
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when those entities when those
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syndicates were confident enough that
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they could just ride rough Shard than
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they did and that the way in which uh
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Julian Assange was uh was made a
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scapegoat and that he was targeted and
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the way that he was bullied and vilified
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I think it it was it was H it
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demonstrated a way in which those those
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crime syndicates had decided that you
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know we don't really need to pretend to
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be uh subject to democracy here we don't
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really need to pretend anymore that we
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will defend freedom and we will defend
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freedom of speech I think to some extent
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it it was a it was an indication that
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those entities had decided you know I
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think we can I think we can go in hard I
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think that the time might be coming when
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we we'll when we'll show the people that
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if we need to get something done we'll
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just do it and we will we will ride
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rough shot over Notions of justice and
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fair trial and and all of the rest of it
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and I think Julian Assange was just
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incredibly unlucky in that respect and
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that he happened to be the right person
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in the right place and he suited he
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suited an objective which was to uh
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which was for those criminal syndicates
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to just start throwing their weight
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around and say it's uh there's a new
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sheriff in town and it's it's ourway or
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the highway I think you're right in a
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number of ways also significantly in the
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way that various figures symbols and
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ideas appear to line up appropriately as
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tectonic plates shift as the technology
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became available for publishing to reach
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the level it did firstly the there was a
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it favored journalism and the type of
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Journalism that may as far as I know
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have once emerged from institutions like
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the New York Times atal but now that
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kind of Integrity is migrated elsewhere
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and Julian Assange was the sort of
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pivotal cartilage figure that connected
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those two worlds I think were there were
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also all he crystallized a moment for
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Everyone by by what he was doing because
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the I I've wondered for a long time uh
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if the if the long-term consequences of
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the internet were foreseen you know back
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in the you know back in the 60s and ' 7s
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when between you know MIT and DARPA the
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whole thing was set in motion I do
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Wonder at the extent to which the
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unintended consequences were foreseen
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and I think by the time of Julian
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Assange and Wikileaks it had become
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apparent to those those crime syndicates
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that actually uh we thought that the
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internet was just going to be something
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that would serve us that would that
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would enable us to harvest all the data
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Harvest all the information about people
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uh you know work towards 24hour a day
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surveillance of people know more about
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them than than you about themselves be
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able to get more information than than
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previous iterations of the CIA and the
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FBI and and anybody else might have ever
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dreamt of gathering about the general
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population but then I think I think it
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was unforeseen that there was another
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that there was a flip side to the
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internet which favored the likes of us
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and Julian Assange was one of the and
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Wikileaks that they were one of the
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first people to make plain the way in
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which the internet could be
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used against them yes that it could be
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that it could be turned back on them and
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very quickly I think it was realized do
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you know what we have got to get a grip
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on this and and we will make a point
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