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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]AikidoSoul
(2,150 posts)and will find that if a person is famous, he will most often be kept alive by those with enormous power. The dissident may be jailed; he may be tortured; he may be maligned; and those close to him may abandon him because of the societal pressures to hate him. He might also just have all of his resources withdrawn....such as when PayPal refused to process donations to Assange.
Those in power know very well that a story about killing a famous dissident will live forever. In other words, it is incredibly stupid to make a martyr out of a famous dissident.
It is normal however to kill off unknown dissidents. It happens with regularity.
Or else they are fired.
Or their funding is eliminated.
Or lies are circulated about them that make them a pariah.
But you already know these things in your heart.... and brain right?