by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

I have often wondered what Roman citizens thought as they watched the Roman Empire fall apart culturally, politically, morally, and militarily.  Cicero, quaestor, praetor and Counsel of Rome, tried to save the Roman Republic.  For his efforts he was chased down and murdered.  As Cicero was, perhaps, the most famous Roman, his murder stopped efforts to prevent Rome’s descent into tyranny. 

The same thing is happening today to those who attempt to arouse us to our danger.  Julian Assange, for example, has been imprisoned contrary to every known US and UK law for a decade without conviction for simply doing his duty as a journalist and reporting the crimes of our rulers, the crimes of the corrupt vermin we continue to return to office and power over us.  No one has done anything about it, not even his fellow journalists.