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June 21, 2023
Thank-you Daniel Ellsberg
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Reproduced from Counterpunch article
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Daniel Ellsberg’s Last Message
June 19, 2023, by Norman Solomon
Daniel Ellsberg “was acutely aware that while admiration for brave whistleblowers might sometimes be widespread, actual emulation is scarce. Ellsberg often heard that he was inspiring, but he was always far more interested in what people would be inspired to actually do — in a world of war and on the precipice of inconceivable catastrophe.”
“During the last decades of his life, standard assumptions and efforts by mainstream media and the political establishment aimed to consign Ellsberg to the era of the Vietnam War. But in real time, Dan Ellsberg continually inspired so many of us to be more than merely inspired. We loved him not only for what he had done but also for what he kept doing, for who he was, luminously, ongoing. The power of his vibrant example spurred us to become better than we were.”
Full article: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/19/daniel-ellsbergs-last-message/
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RIP Daniel Ellsberg
“Most Dangerous Man in America” on Leaking Pentagon Papers, Exposing Gov’t Lies
Democracy Now, June 20, 2023
“the way that Julian Assange has had to grow up with his young sons in his total-security prison in Belmarsh for having facilitated truth-taking of the same kind that I’ve done. As a matter of fact, his is the first prosecution of a journalist for putting information out. And it will not be the last, if he’s successfully extradited over here. So, he has a couple of children who’ve seen him, literally, only in prison — and better than not seeing him at all. That’s certainly the case.”
“I revealed this year that I had the information from Julian Assange, essentially, that Chelsea Manning had given Assange and which was later put out in the papers. I had that before the papers, before the newspapers had them, meaning that I was as indictable right now, as I’m talking to you, as any of the people who have been indicted by this Justice Department, because they’re working with a law whose plain language is, on the one hand, unconstitutional, from the point of view of the First Amendment, but, read properly, just says that anyone who reads or handles or stores a piece of paper that has been marked to be protected, marked classified by the government, is subject to imprisonment.”
“That implies even to readers of The New York Times and, very definitely, to journalists, like Charlie Savage, or the publishers or Julian himself. In other words, in that respect, we’ve gone backwards. After all, mine was the first prosecution of anyone for telling the truth to the American people. And there have been several dozen since.”
“This law, the Espionage Act, very much needs to be repealed or rescinded in such a way that it does not serve like a British Official Secrets Act, which was a perfect law for an empire.”
Full coverage: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/20/daniel_ellsberg_pentagon_papers_whistleblower_death
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