Julian Assange: Hero or Terrorist

Attention Getter George Orwell once said, Political Language is designed to gear up lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to separate an appearance of solidity to pure wind. 2. Bond Link to Audience Its easy to take our 1st amendment rights for granted only imagine if we didnt see them any more than. Can you imagine living in an the States where its considered treason to assign what you think and to tell the world what you know? Well, that is what the current battle in the midst of our government and Julian Assange is about. . Credentials of speaker I have been following the developing story of Julian Assange for the last 3 years. So, its fair to say that I know a little bit about him. 4. Thesis My research leads me to accept that Julian Assange should be afforded the same rights as every separate journalist. 5. Speech Preview First, Im issue to talk about the global smear campaign against Julian Assange. After that, Im leaving to talk about the violations that t he U. S. is posing to his mankind rights.Finally, I am going to talk about what America is going to look like if we dont have our rights anymore. 6. Transition But lets start with the smears that have been dealt to Julian Assange. II. Body 1. Main Point 1 a. State Point 1 A global smear campaign is going on right this moment against Julian Assange. b. Argument Some argon saying that he is a woman raping terrorist. c. Proof In an article by BBC new-fangleds, Julian Assange said he believes that currently there is a global smear campaign to make him look disreputable and crazy.I read in an eBook called, Assange Agonistes that Nick Davies, a journalist for the New York Times, said that Americas preferred method of control is through Media management. He also said that the American government is, the biggest media manipulation machine in the history of mankind. I think that this is absolutely true because this isnt the first period the U. S. government has used smear tactics against soul who stood up against them. I discovered 2 other incidents where our government and a major bank had smeared someones name through the use of exual misconduct file aways the first being Scott Ritter. I watched a video on YouTube by The Young Turks, where they were discussing the allegations that were brought up against Julian Assange. In the video they were talking about how Scott Ritter, a decorated war veteran, who spoke out against the war in Iraq and said that there were no weapons of draw destruction in Iraq. Soon after Ritter made that statement, alleged sex charges were brought up against him to make him look like a dirty old rapist who would do anything to make our government look bad.The second case I also discovered was about Elliot Spitzer, who accused the banks of insider trading. Suddenly the North Fork depone reported to the IRS that Spitzer was using funds to pay for a hooker and sex charges were brought up against him. Due to the media scandal he resigned f rom his position as Governor of New York because it painted a negative reflection on our government. d. Give an Example In an article that I read on Wired. com it talks about a woman that has accused Julian Assange of raping her. In the article it describes the process by which this woman describes her incident with Assange.Ms. Anna Ardin said that he pinned her down to the bed when she reached for a condom, scarcely hence he consented and put a condom on. According to Ms. Ardin she feels she was raped because the condom broke at some point in time during the act. spot I was investigating I found out that she had posted to her blog the 7 steps to get legal revenge. I personally dont find her story very credible after reading a translation of her blog. Ms. Ardin is known in Sweden for her feministic viewson how men achieve social authority through sex.The government was anxious to pounce on her accusations of rape even though she is a known feminist with a history of reporting tempestuous rape. I do not find this a coincidence that a few days before the rape accusation Mr. Assange had released an embarrassing video of US soldiers gunning down no less than a dozen unarmed civilians in Iraq, while they were talking about it like it was a game of Call of Duty. Julian believes it was not a coincidence that after he embarrassed the U. S. by leaking this video, he was then accused of a crime that would have him extradited back to Sweden and then to the U. S. for further punishment.This was before they discovered there was nothing that the US government could charge him with and it was a violation of his human rights to send him to Sweden where he hadnt been supercharged for the alleged crime. To date Julian has never been charged with the rape of this woman and has been confined to house arrest for more than 500 days without any charge against him. e. Restate the point There is a global smear campaign set against Julian Assange because he is the face of WikiLe aks. g. Transition Sentence Next, lets talk about the violation to his rights. 2. Main Point 2 Solutions to those problems . State Point 2 The U. S. government is violating Julian Assanges human rights.b. Argument In an article by The Atlantic quoted Hillary Clinton saying that Julian Assange was attacking their international community. c. Refutation Julian Assange is a journalist and is protected by the U. N. s firmness of purpose of Human Rights under article 19. Under article 19 it says Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, realise and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. . Give an Example In 1968 when we were in the thick of the Vietnam War there was a man named Daniel Ellsberg that was hardy and released classified Pentagon documents to the New York Times. On History. com and from my uncle, who was a journalist in the Vietnam War, I learn ed that that the war ended earlier as a result of a public outcry, where 75% of the American population protested the war. Daniel Ellsberg also helped end the war by releasing classified documents that exposed the lies that made us go to war in the first place which forced President Reagan to withdraw from Vietnam.If we stand together and say that we rent to stop unjustly blaming Julian Assange for promoting a more transparent government and take a look at what it is that we are unknowingly promoting. Julian Assange believes that we have the right to know about the lies and secret dealings going on by our government. It is our right to know what they are saying and doing behind closed doors. Yes, there are instances where our government needs to have secrets, but that doesnt mean that they can to lie to us about the general majority of secret dealings that are going on.If Julian Assange is attacking our international Community then maybe it needs to be attacked because what is go ing on right now and all the lies that we are being told need to be known. We need to see just what is going on. We need to know why the rest of the world hates us so much. e. Restate the Point Julian Assanges human rights are being violated and we need to do something about it. 3. Main Point 3 Visualization a. State Point 3 Imagine an America where it becomes treason to say what you think and to tell others about it. b.Argument Our government would say that there is a need to be censored in order to clutch us safe. c. Refutation Our 1st Amendment rights are going to disappear if we dont halt this violation right now. Pretty soon were going to be trapped in a world where we dont have our most basic of rights. Imagine a world populated with alter police and being under lock down in an authoritarian dictatorship where we no longer have any rights or freedom. How many of you believe that the governments placing cameras on the roads and on top of buildings are really about watching tr affic?I believe that it is really about watching the people. So, its already begun. d. Give an Example We need to stand together and we need to tell our friends and loved ones. Spread the word tell people about whats going on Everyone needs to know that our rights are at risk right now e. Restate the point America is going to change dramatically if Julian Assange is arrested for being a journalist. f. Transition Lets summarize what I have been talking to you about today. III. Conclusion 1.Restate thesis Julian Assange should be afforded the same rights as every other Journalist. 2. Restate main points Julian Assange is being attacked by so many companies and governments. His rights are being violated and its going to change America if our government succeeds in arresting Julian Assange. 3. Call- to-Action Protest Say what you think We need to challenge our government and show them that they are wrong because if we dont America, the so-called land of the free, is soon to be the Sovie t America.