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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Update: 08/21 15:58 GMT by S : Multiple sources are now reporting that the warrant for Assange's arrest has been withdrawn.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Update: 08/21 15:58 GMT by S : Multiple sources are now reporting that the warrant for Assange's arrest has been withdrawn.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."
Any enemy of the US is our friend.
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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1. piss off the establishment and make yourself a counterculture hero
2. rape anyone you like and claim any accusations are a conspiracy
3. have the internet hail you as a wronged savior and get away with it.
If only we had listened to the CIA...
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Slashfags veer from complexity because they're too fucking stupid to comprehend it. They know a few of things: comic books, sucking cocks and delivering pizza.
He is a publciity seeking whoee who doesnt give a fuck about the effects of his actions.
So fuck him, he deserves this.
...can lead to a rape accusation.
Motive, no big deal, being a heterosexual male is enough.
Are you serious? If you had any clue about sexuality, you would know that not every heterosexual male (or bi/homosexual, for that matter) is interested in rape. Even most of those with rape fantasies have the common sense not to act on them outside controlled, consensual bedroom fantasy fulfilment sex, or through masturbation. Heterosexuality is not a predisposition to rape.
Opportunity, that's the big problem.
How do you figure? Assuming the rapist is not a hermit on a desert island, they can strike any time they want to. It is even possible for a rapist to rape a female who is (initially, at least) interested, by making a consensual sexual situation violent, or refusing to respect her boundaries.
I have lived in Sweden and cannot say I had any difficulty in picking willing girls in bars there, and I'm not even famous like Assange.
Rape is not primarily a sexual outlet. Masturbation is. Rape is primarily an act of dominance and control. If there were any truth to your "celebrity" assumption, we wouldn't have incidents of celebrity rapists, now would we?
Well, Assange classifies a lot of things as legal that most of the world considers criminial.
Molesting a woman probably doesn't even ping as unethical on his moral compass.
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.
"So how do you explain the larger number of reported rapes in Sweden then?"
All the Muslims.
You have to remember, this is a guy who thinks that stealing and disseminating classified information is not a crime.
His sense of right and wrong is not in balance with the rest of the world's.
Every time Rush Limbaugh says anything about a crime, his audience, consciously or subconsciously, asks themselves why he isn't in jail.
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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.
SD i riksdagen 2010!
Apparently while at his mothers house he attempted it, reports are still coming in but they are showing pictures of the ambulance in front of his mother place.
This sucks and doesn't look good for him.
http://www.thelocal.se/28496/20100873/
"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."
not of rape but for the murder of the innocent people who have been or will be executed by the Taliban for helping the U.S
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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You might ask the good people who were once subjects of the Soviet Union how they would feel about your comment.
I was, and I see nothing wrong with that comment -- no sane person outside US likes US, and everyone in ex-USSR hates you. You may consider watching less Fox News and/or less fapping at the picture of Reagan.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
but definitely murder. The sooner this asshole leaves the world, the better.
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.
"...all with a sitting US president who is politically the farthest to the left ever."
Either Fox News posters are on the wrong website when they went down the wrong tube, or he's posting from a different universe.
Either way, he's disappointingly middle ground. I know you think with how he got rid of your pointless jet bomber whatever things that he's the antichrist, but he kept the Spitfires. You know, that gun that has a plane attached? I know a lot of liberals were hoping he'd shit out rainbows and make both wars magically go away, but he pretty much had the same plan as McCain in regards to Iraq. He never lied about ramping up troops in Afghanistan, either. He just avoided saying that as much as possible.
You know what boggles my mind? Republicans complaining about welfare cheats when a lot of their supporters are poor and need our social programs. Why would you vote for the guy who is going to make sure you have nothing to fall back on when you have nothing because giant corporations got another tax break and you didn't and now you can't afford your house payment because god forbid we have regulation because regulation is Satan's work. Is it because you're so worried those unborn fetuses won't get to go to Heaven? Guess what, if you read the damned book you'd understand the bullet points:
God grades you on how you behave, not on how you make others that you don't control behave, God will forgive you for not burning down an Abortion Clinic because the thing about murder is still on, and God doesn't want you to go around judging everyone else because that's his job and he's not really got much else to do now. You obviously never got any of that at all.
And security for free? I pay my taxes. They might be free for you, sure, if you don't pay your taxes, but this guy I know, he's not cool with that, and he's kinda mean. He'll send dudes that do stuff to make sure you pay them all the taxes you owe. I think he was named Ira, or maybe the Internal Revenue Service. No, I think it was Ira. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_military_spending says it ain't free, by about $680,000,000,000. Or to put it in simpler terms, "The 2009 U.S. military budget is almost as much as the rest of the world's defense spending combined and is over nine times larger than the military budget of China". China, if you didn't know, spends the most amount of money on defense if you're not counting us.
You know why my mind isn't ever changed by right wingers? Because they never bring a good argument to the table that can convince me. Instead, they bring air-headed bimbos that say things like "Also, too" or they scream their points over and over again until anyone who thought to say, "Well that's not how it works, at all, are you insane?" is drowned out and can't think to argue because the Chewbacca defense is impenetrable.
deploying nuclear weapons against civilian targets
Yeah, civilian targets like the SS and Hitler, right?
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.