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In reply to the discussion: Supreme Court rules Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden. [View all]bupkus
(1,981 posts)I don't watch much TV but last night I was keeping my dog company on the couch and I turned on the TV. I came across "Civilization" with Niall Ferguson. I watched the last half or so. At the end Ferguson asks why the "West", which he claims has led the world for 500 years is no longer the world leader it once was. He claims we had "killer apps": competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the "Protestant work ethic" (LOL) that allowed us to "win". But now the rest of the world has the killer apps too. And we no longer adhere to what once made us great.
Ferguson mentioned rule of law as one of the our great advantages and that stuck with me because we no longer have rule of law as one of our "killer apps" (if you accept Ferguson's hypothesis) here in America, and neither do our allies who do our bidding, like Australia who, for example, willingly followed American orders into Iraq in complete contradiction of rule of law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_contribution_to_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq
Australian contribution to the 2003 invasion of Iraq
So my hypothesis is: The Australian government is using its Supreme Court (sound familiar?) to once again follow U.S. directives, this time to persecute one of its own citizens that the U.S. government wants silenced at any cost.
And, surprise, the PTB are using another S-E-X case to get the job done! Because the ignorant lemmings that make up the bulk of our "democracy" these days react to lurid S-E-X stories better than any other stimulus.