1/ On Julian Assange’s 50th birthday, it’s important to remember his case is not just about Julian Assange. It’s not even just about press freedom. It’s about horrible things being done by the US military that they did not want us to know about.

2/ Over 15,000 more Iraqi civilian deaths than has been reported. Blackwater mercenaries indiscriminately shooting into crowds. 700 civilians shot for getting too close to checkpoints, some of them men trying to get pregnant women to the hospital. Abuse. Rape.Torture. WAR CRIMES

3/ The government wants to freeze serious journalism when it comes to military secrecy because serious journalists go after the truth. Saying “he’s not a journalist” is particularly ridiculous given how many journalists in this country are more like fiction writers & they know it

4/ Our loyalty as citizens should not be to the government no matter what the government does; it should be to the principles of democracy & freedom. Assange revealed things classified not because they were a threat to our freedom but because they’re a threat to military secrecy.