Pink Floyd Frontman Opens Show By Exposing The Government Silencing of Julian Assange

 Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters showed solidarity with Julian  Assange during a concert in Berlin by unveiling a message in red text  projected onto a black backdrop, which read “Resist the attempted silencing of Julian Assange,” before the start of his concert.   

Waters’ show of support for the WikiLeaks founder happened as  supporters and friends of Assange came together for an online vigil  featuring a diverse group of high-profile supporters of all political  stripes for the Unity for J /#Unity4J event. They called for the end of  Assange’s “arbitrary detention” inside of the Ecuadoran Embassy in London and advocated for Assange’s freedom and protection.   

The online vigil for Assange comes in response to his continued  silencing by the Ecuadorian government, which cut his internet  communications with the outside world at their London embassy on March  28 and began denying him communications or visitors, claiming that his  posts on social media put the country’s international relations “at risk.”  

 In a recent interview with the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle,  Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno said that Assange could continue his  asylum in the embassy but must adhere to the specified  conditions—otherwise, Ecuador “will make a decision.” “Do not forget that his asylum status prevents him  from talking about politics and intervening in friendly countries’  politics. We have cut off this line of communication,” Moreno told DW. 

Assange has essentially been barred from practicing journalism if he  wants to maintain his asylum while remaining subject to arrest in  Britain for jumping bail. 

Additionally, it is believed that there is a  secret grand jury indictment against Assange—thus he fears a likely U.S.  extradition, based on his leaking of classified documents, if he is  arrested in the UK. Ecuador initially granted Assange asylum in 2012, under  then-President Rafael Correa, who repeatedly tried to find a solution  that would allow the WikiLeaks founder to leave the embassy without the  threat of arrest. Assange has been living in Ecuador’s embassy for  almost six years, in what a UN panel describes as “arbitrary detention,” after seeking asylum from persecution. 

In December 2017, Ecuador granted citizenship to  Assange, in a failed bid to provide him with diplomatic immunity.  President Moreno, who was elected last year, has previously said that  Assange was “more than a nuisance,” and called him an “inherited problem.” 

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is known for using his musical platform to  make powerful political statements that often go against the mainstream  narrative. During a solo concert in Barcelona in last month, Waters stopped mid-concert  to address the U.S. bombing of Syria—which took place under the  pretense of retaliation for an alleged chemical attack—to call out the  White Helmets.

 “The White Helmets is a fake organization that exists only to create propaganda for jihadists and terrorists,” Waters said. “That’s  my belief. We have opposing beliefs. If we were to listen to the  propaganda of the White Helmets and others, we would be encouraged to  encourage our governments to start dropping bombs on people in Syria.  This would be a mistake of monumental proportions for us as human  beings.” 

“What we should do is go and persuade our governments not to go and drop bombs on people.  And certainly not until we have done all the research that is necessary  so that we would have a clear idea of what is really going on. Because  we live in the world where propaganda seems to be more important than  the reality of what is really going on,” he added. 

Waters has been an activist throughout his career and taken a number  of controversial stances while calling out the means by which the  entertainment industry works to propagandize and socially engineer  society. He explained, in  2016, that the entertainment industry discourages individuals from  calling out the atrocities committed by the Israeli military, and how  the “boycott, divestment and sanctions” (BDS) campaign was targeted: 

The only response to BDS is that it is anti-Semitic, I  know this because I have been accused of being a Nazi and an  anti-Semite for the past 10 years. My industry has been particularly  recalcitrant in even raising a voice [against Israel]. There’s me and  Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, Manic Street Preachers, one or two others,  but there’s nobody in the United States where I live. I’ve talked to a  lot of them, and they are scared s***less.

“If they say something in public they will no longer have a  career. They will be destroyed. I’m hoping to encourage some of them to  stop being frightened and to stand up and be counted because we need  them. We need them desperately in this conversation in the same way we  needed musicians to join protesters over Vietnam,” he added. When entertainers and musicians attempt to break through the imposed  Matrix of propaganda the plutocratic oligarchy and their media cronies  work diligently to marginalize them into obscurity. 

It is important for  people to understand that voices for freedom are being intentionally  silenced when they go against the “approved” narrative, thus it being  incumbent upon us to share the message of freedom, and no matter what  your political ideology—support human rights and justice for Julian  Assange! 

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