An ode to Julian Assange with AI Art

@Julian Assange

An AI generated image, a high-angle photograph shows Julian Assange sitting on the raised crown of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, with his legs dangling over the side of the crown's points. His right hand holds an ivory colour ceramic coffee mug with black text reading "Rock 'n Roll CEO".

Digital revolutionary, info's radical liberator.
Australian hacker turned global dissident.
Transparency warrior with platinum hair.

WikiLeaks founder exposing state secrets (and lies).
Embassy captive, freedom’s battered voice.
#CollateralMurder shocking comfortable democracies.

Ecuador’s shield shattered by THEIR deals.
Underground bunker, hunted by their wrath.
Journalist not terrorist, definitions weaponised.

Chelsea Manning's classified conduit.
Democratic emails, their outrage orchestrated.

@JulianAssange: truth’s divisive alchemist.

Legal persecution spanning continents.
Free speech icon, vilified by their pens.
His leaks: uncomfortable democratic mirror.

Swedish charges conveniently timed.
American extradition, their cage awaiting.
الحقيقة في زمن الأكاذيب their truth be damned.

Pamela Anderson’s vegan meals, their mockery.
Technological resistance breeding paranoia.
His legacy: complexity they can’t stomach.

Belmarsh’s walls, their temporary triumph.
Keyboard warrior, staring down their guns.
Price, paid in stolen years.

Information fights to be free.
He tore open floodgates - drowning in truths consequences.