From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/from_jesus_christ_to_julian_assange_when_dissidents_become_enemies_of_the_state_by_john_w._whitehead

 When any government becomes almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting—whether that evil takes the form of war, terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity—that government has lost its claim to legitimacy.