{"id":19463,"date":"2024-04-18T13:33:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=19463"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:33:48","slug":"set-julian-assange-free-my-matt-kibbe-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/18\/set-julian-assange-free-my-matt-kibbe-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Julian Assange Free: My Matt Kibbe Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my 50 second hat tip to Julian Assange from my recent interview with <strong>Matt Kibbe <\/strong>and Free the People.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-19463-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-Kibbe-interview-Julian-Assange-50-seconds.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-Kibbe-interview-Julian-Assange-50-seconds.mp4\">https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-Kibbe-interview-Julian-Assange-50-seconds.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>From my <strong>Saving Assange &amp; Free Speech<\/strong> article last month in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/saving-julian-assange-free-speech-and-democracy\/\">American Conservative<\/a>:<br \/>\nAlmost all the media coverage of the Assange case is failing to credit him for revealing how blindfolding citizens defines down democracy. Self-government is a sham if citizens are prohibited from knowing what elected officials are doing in their name. Politicians and Washington\u2019s \u201cbest and brightest\u201d have long been accustomed to covertly and recklessly intervening around the world with none of the usual checks and balances of democracy. But there is never a penalty for officialdom deceiving the public they claim to serve.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s Justice Department and Assange\u2019s lawyers have reportedly discussed a possible plea deal that would drop the most serious charges against him. Fair play would be satisfied if Assange pleads guilty to lese majeste\u2014embarrassing the government by exposing its follies, frauds, and crimes. I still believe that Assange deserves a presidential Medal of Freedom, as I recommended in USA Today in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>But that would never satisfy people like Hillary Clinton, who joked about seeing Assange dead, or former CIA chief Mike Pompeo, who plotted on kidnapping and killing Assange. Hell-raisers like Assange are necessary to prevent America from becoming an Impunity Democracy in which government officials pay no price for their abuses.<\/p>\n<p>The next hearing in the Assange case will be May 20 in London, a few weeks after the annual World Press Freedom Day. Biden marked that day last year by proclaiming, \u201cCourageous journalists around the world have shown time and again that they will not be silenced or intimidated. The United States sees them and stands with them.\u201d Except, of course, for any courageous journalist that Biden seeks to destroy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jpb-assange-TAC-quote-outtake-Canva-3-28-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-19377\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jpb-assange-TAC-quote-outtake-Canva-3-28-24-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jpb-assange-TAC-quote-outtake-Canva-3-28-24-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jpb-assange-TAC-quote-outtake-Canva-3-28-24-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jpb-assange-TAC-quote-outtake-Canva-3-28-24-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jpb-assange-TAC-quote-outtake-Canva-3-28-24-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jpb-assange-TAC-quote-outtake-Canva-3-28-24.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-19463-2\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jpb-speech-Twitter-10-8-22-julian-assange.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jpb-speech-Twitter-10-8-22-julian-assange.mp4\">https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jpb-speech-Twitter-10-8-22-julian-assange.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at the Julian Assange rally at the Justice Department headquarters, October 2022<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12992\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-quote-jpeg-by-Natalie-F-D-on-Assange-Wikileaks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12992\" class=\"wp-image-12992 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-quote-jpeg-by-Natalie-F-D-on-Assange-Wikileaks-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-quote-jpeg-by-Natalie-F-D-on-Assange-Wikileaks-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-quote-jpeg-by-Natalie-F-D-on-Assange-Wikileaks-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-quote-jpeg-by-Natalie-F-D-on-Assange-Wikileaks-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-quote-jpeg-by-Natalie-F-D-on-Assange-Wikileaks-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-quote-jpeg-by-Natalie-F-D-on-Assange-Wikileaks.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">art by Natalie Fawn Danelishen<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my 50 second hat tip to Julian Assange from my recent interview with Matt Kibbe and Free the People. From my Saving Assange &amp; Free Speech article last month in the American Conservative: Almost all the media coverage of the Assange case is failing to credit him for revealing how blindfolding citizens defines down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1721,4130,1122,1056,4104,820],"class_list":["post-19463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-press","tag-free-speech","tag-julian-assange","tag-matt-kibbe","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Set Julian Assange Free: My Matt Kibbe Interview - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My riff on Julian Assange from my recent interview with Matt Kibbe of Free the People\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/18\/set-julian-assange-free-my-matt-kibbe-interview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Set Julian Assange Free: My Matt Kibbe Interview - 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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19522,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19463\/revisions\/19522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}