John Shipton asks if his son, Julian Assange, is not today’s Prometheus from classical mythology

John Shipton asks if his son, Julian Assange, is not today’s Prometheus from classical mythology Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, hopes for an « honourable and exemplary » France Visiting France to promote asylum here for his son Julian Assange, John Shipton granted FranceSoir the honour of an interview on Friday November 12th. As Mr. Shipton sees it, his son’s mission has been that of Prometheus, Unbound : in 2005, as Julian put into place what became WikiLeaks, he believed that were certain critical items of strategic information to become widely available, the citizenry would be aroused to act on an array of matters vaster even than the strictly political. The phenomenon that Julian intended to see emerge at that time is that of a mass-based, grassroots awareness. It has now become manifest as several billion people reject the « English-speaking faction’s policy o