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What he has published simply cannot be published. Something like that doesn't work.
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I put it a little differently: Assange had to be put out of the way because he threatened to destroy the basic narrative that is the bedrock of power in Western societies.
A family secret I would also like to put it a little philosophically. The Assange drama is an expression of a society that does not know - and does not want to know - its own other. Who always has to project evil into something absolutely different, with which it has nothing in common. At least society has to pretend that it has nothing in common with it. Much like the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
This is reflected in what Bush said in no uncertain terms after the 9/11 attack in 2001: Everyone in the world should know that either you are on our side or on that of the terrorists. He dictatorially ruled out something third, just as he did not allow the possibility of thinking that he himself could be a terrorist.
The current silence on Assange is not much different from a well-kept family secret. Everyone knows what's going on, but nobody talks about it. But he has started to talk about things that are normally not talked about. From the corpses in the basement. And indeed, and therein lies the scandal, of the corpses in our own basement, not in that of the others.
He started to talk, and with it he destroyed the beautiful appearance. Or there was a threat that it would happen. Before that really happened, he was turned into a corpse in the basement. A corpse in the basement of the west.
