I AM NOT FREE TODAY BECAUSE SYSTEM WORKED, I AM FREE BECAUSE I PLED GUILTY TO JOURNALISM - declares Aussie journalist Assange (1

I AM NOT FREE TODAY BECAUSE SYSTEM WORKED, I AM FREE BECAUSE I PLED GUILTY TO JOURNALISM - declares Aussie journalist Assange (1st video), in first statement as free man at Council of Europe after 14 years fighting Washington’s threat of extradition and more than 5 years of incarceration for exposing U.S. war crimes. The truth now seems less discernable, and I regret how much ground has been lost during that time period. How expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked, weakened and diminished I see more impunity, secrecy, retaliation for telling truth, and more self-censorship. It’s hard not to draw line from U.S. government’s persecution of me, its crossing the Rubicon by internationally criminalizing journalism to chilled climate for freedom of expression existing now - Assange. Boost us here @IntelRepublic Source: Intel Republic