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Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated
mpawlo was one of many readers who have sent news that a warrant has been issued in Stockholm, Sweden for WikiLeaks founder and spokesman Julian Assange. The investigation apparently involves "one report of rape and one report of harassment." The story was broken by Swedish tabloid Expressen (original in Swedish), and later picked up by more reputable sources like CNN and the BBC, who say the warrant has been confirmed by Swedish authorities. The WikiLeaks Twitter feed has commented three times about the charges so far, first saying they were warned of 'dirty tricks,' then that they hadn't been contacted by Swedish police, and then a statement from Assange saying the charges are without basis.
Update: 08/21 15:58 GMT by S : Multiple sources are now reporting that the warrant for Assange's arrest has been withdrawn. Aftonbladet has coverage in Swedish. Chief prosecutor Eva Finne said, "I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape."
Update: 08/21 15:58 GMT by S : Multiple sources are now reporting that the warrant for Assange's arrest has been withdrawn. Aftonbladet has coverage in Swedish. Chief prosecutor Eva Finne said, "I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape."
What more needs to be said? And here I thought Sweden would act more neutral than this...
I honestly don't believe they would leave so much to chance. I can believe that they would arrest him, possibly under questionable circumstances. I can also believe they would cause him to "disappear".
To me, this sounds like he slipped up. I wonder if other allegations will come out of the woodwork?
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It doesn't take a paranoid
Yes, actually, it does.
It takes a paranoid to do what Assange did with the U.S.'s secrets, too, instead of trying the legal way to get the information declassified, first.
Every time Rush Limbaugh says anything about a crime, his audience, consciously or subconsciously, asks themselves why he isn't in jail.
Didn't dare to login as I am sure to be modded down.
First of all I would like to state that I am NOT a racist. Sweden has a huge problem with immigrants committing crime and they are responsible for a huge majority of the assault rapes and other rapes as well. The Swedish media is of course covering this up, but if we look at Norway for example the case is the same there. And lets not forget Sweden takes in much more immigrants than Norway.
It is very sad for the freedom of speech and democracy in Sweden that people who point out the downsides of massive and often uncontrolled immigration have to defend themselves from being labeled as "racists".
Let me congratulate you for your bravery to write this, anonymously or not.
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"Perhaps we should be trying to help people instead of locking them in a box, or in countries like the USA, a rape factory."
That presumes the same defectives who like crime can somehow be "helped". The solution is to lock them up and keep them locked up, which decreasing crime rates in the US bear out. Beasts belong in cages, not let out to play.
Those of us who are good deserve a safe and comfortable society as free as practical from the rapey/robby/stabby sort. We don't need to care about our enemies, but to isolate or kill them. They had the option to behave themselves and refused.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
but, because of morons like you, we are in deep shit on this planet.
the governments and organizations he exposed tried all kinds of means to get to him, couldnt, because he hid, and finally, he found legal solace in swedish law, and in swedish parliament. finally totally removing any kind of legal way to get him.
and RIGHT 2-3 days after this, suddenly rape charges come up !!!
if, there is anyone who couldnt link these two events, and naively, stupidly, moronically believe that, they are not linked, and assange is guilty, do us a favor and shoot yourselves in the head. so that we can get rid of your naivete, and the world can be a better place.
HOW much smoke does one need to see, to understand that there is a fire ? apparently, some are way too naive as to never see the forest fire, while even burning in it themselves.
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Ok, so it's the US's fault that the taliban is cutting off woman's noses? OOOOOOOOOOk. Next. BTW do any of you idiots hail from former soviet bloc counties? Thought not.
I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.
I suppose you long for the days of the worker's paradise in the former soviet union? I invite you to did a little deeper to learn about about the alternatives. You also need to think long and hard about exactly who is to blame. The US to blame for starving children in Iraq? Saddam was such a nice guy who'd give the poor the shirt off his back, right? He only attacked 3 or 4 neighboring countries but I suppose the US is to blame for that, too. A-bombing japanese civilians? Tojo was also a real sweetheart. Don't forget all the jobs he provided for the "comfort women" in Nanking. Torture in abu graib? In most countries torture includes things like pulling out fingernails, attaching jumper cables to your balls, things like that. Stress positions and humiliation are on an entirely different level and even those practices, started during the worst of the reactionary period immediately post 9/11 were stopped once cooler heads prevailed.
A quick note before I continue: Try reasoning with any of the people on the other side. Just try - like we did with North Korea when they were promising up and down that they weren't building a nuclear bomb, until they suddenly admitted they did when they tested it. They love negotiations because it gives them political cover while the continue doing exactly what they shouldn't be doing. That Iranian nuke plant is for peaceful research purposes! Honest!
In short, you choose to believe the US is the bad guy in spite of all the evidence to the contrary simply because you haven't bothered doing the homework or to critically think about the facts of history. Security? Europe's little popgun armies would have lasted about 10 minutes against the soviets. Hell, just back in the '90's we were forced to send in the F-18's because none of the euros wanted to dirty their hands protecting Croatian muslims against the Serbs. The best the euros could manage was helping the serbs butcher people in Srebrenica. Just another part of the world incapable of managing it's affairs without adult supervision.
Good luck with that whole security thing, we'll be sitting over here laughing at you during your next crisis. Nah, just kidding! We'll be there to bail your asses out yet again.
I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.
Oh Yesss!!!! Lives of traitors working for CIA are worth more than lives of thousands of innocent civilians killed in a war of aggression (a war crime all in itself, though Americans don't realize that) perpetrated by US.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Actually stealing and disseminating foreign governments' or private entities' secret documents is not a crime anywhere in the world. Each government has one or a bunch of agencies dedicated to the stealing part, and ofter does the disseminating whenever convenient.
More often than not, and even when illegal, the combination (stealing AND disseminating) it's also not morally wrong, either.
Stealing and secretly giving to the hostile governments is usually wrong, but this is not what Wikileaks does.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Yep
We (the U.S.) really screwed the pooch when our corrupted financial sector collapsed the entire global economy recently
Finger pointing is now legal, so take you pick of any and all republican representatives, past and current, to thank for that one.
They're the ones that thought it up
Legalized gambling on financial futures .. what a scam. I still wonder where all those lost billions went to and/or whose pockets were lined with it all. There is a special place in hell for all those cock suckers to burn in.
I'm sure the nazi trolls will mod me down for this post. I really don't care ..
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
I said people LIKE Rush WILL be able to do this. Not that SPECIFICALLY Rush HAS done something.
I guess years of listening to Rush makes even his listeners talk/think in dishonest ways.