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Assange Secret Swedish Police Report Leaked
letsurock writes "The 68-page confidential report prepared by Swedish police got leaked which tells the police version on the alleged sexual misconduct by the Julian assange. The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August this year when 39-year-old Assange had what he has described as consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish women."
You know what, actually, after writing the title, I can't bring myself to do this. You all deserve better.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
So its apparently been leaked...
And there's no link in Slashdots Article. And googling for it brings up hundreds of news sites and blogs who all talk about it but also don't link to the police report.
Is it being hosted somewhere? Is it possible to get a copy of the police report and not rely on what people say it says?
... until I see it on Wikileaks.ch!
it must not be that important.
If only there was some internet repository where leaks of this kind could be shared. It could even be made into a wiki, for easier access.
What the hell is an assange, and why is there only one? Any relation with the Julian calendar?
I'm not trolling -- I mean, seriously?
Over the course of 4 days someone keeps saying that they are wearing a condom and they keep accepting this without proof? At some point the liability has to transfer to the foolee rather than the fooler.
I went to battle M.C. Escher, but drew a blank.
That article has every known detail.
in Sweden if the woman withdraws consent during the act it is still considered rape, with prision terms.
If julian was half as smart as he thinks he is he wouldn't have done what he did. Instead he fscked two women without knowing the local laws regarding such things, and is in turn being fscked back.
If you screw a woman in some countries without their father's approval beforehand it is rape. Under Islamic law if your brother rapes and beats your wife, you have to kill the wife for tempting him and forgive the brother. Why is the fact that different countries have different standards so hard for people to understand? the UK rape laws don't apply in sweden, Islamic law doesn't apply in the USA, chinese law doesn't apply in Russia.
Why should Julian be treated any differently than any other tourist as they visit foreign lands? oh I know because he is special, god like even. he is like the Catholic church immune from doing something wrong ever, any crime he might have done is automatically a crime againist GOD and therefore not really a crime.
He freely admits he slept with both of those women. he is trying this case in the court of public opinion because he knows he will lose in a court of law because he is guilty, of a crime in sweden. i don't have to like the swedish law but I do have to respect it when i am there.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
On of the accusers had been kicked out of Cuba for "anti-Castro" activity and has ties to US funded political groups. It's looking a lot like CIA. Counter Punch reported on it, check it out.
This happened several days ago. The Guardian has the story here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden I think The Times also had a story. No point looking for the original document -- it was in Swedish.
Lucky there's no link on an official site, we could have /. the server.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
Where is this leaked document? I'd like to read it since the media often likes to give the wrong picture.
No wonder the condom broke!
Have gnu, will travel.
All I'm seeing is spin everywhere. It reeks of damage mitigation.
so will this set of leaked docs end up on wikileaks too!? ;)
Why is the summary not linking to the original article and instead pointing to a blog-post which is supposedly regurgitating a Press Trust of India release based on the NYTimes article? This story is also about 3 days old :S
Although there is no link to the original Swedish document, and I can't read Swedish anyway, the article indicates that Assange is being accused of 2 counts of rape. Both instances seem ridiculous for different reasons. I have had condoms tear and not realize it until I pulled out. So that alone is not a consent issue. In the other instance, how the hell is it possible to have sex with someone while they are asleep, with or without a condom. Would they not wake up before you even had the chance to stick it in? The key issue in both cases is whether or not Assange was in fact told to stop. Either he was or he wasn't. If he was told to stop, and continued anyway then it was rape by US definitions. If he was not told to stop and the women just got pissed off later for various reasons it was not rape by most normal definitions of the term. If Assange was not told to stop then I think CIA involvement becomes quite plausible. The accusers should be thoroughly investigated for secret money transfers etc. If they are Swedish citizens working for the CIA could they be liable for espionage charges under Swedish law? Wouldn't that make them traitors to the Swedish government?
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
None of those mentions rape, so why is Assange being described as an alleged rapist?
The accusation in the fourth point, involving Miss W, falls into the category of rape under Swedish law.
An arrest warrant, issued on 20 August, was withdrawn the following day, when one of Sweden's chief prosecutors, Eva Finné, said she did not think there was "reason to suspect that he has committed rape". On 1 September, Marianne Ny, the Swedish director of prosecutions, overturned Finné's judgment. "Considering information available at present, my judgment is that the classification of the crime is rape," said Ny. link
It's actually rather clever of him to serve as a lightning rod for Wikileaks, while the actual work continues to go on. Right-wing congressmen can call for his assassination all they like; even if it were to happen it would not affect the publication of the leaks. In fact, it would almost certainly trigger the mass publication of the unredacted material. "The personal strengths and weaknesses of a leader are no true indicator of the merits of his cause."
I piss off bigots.
Anna Ardin (the official complainant) is often described by the media as a “leftist”. She has ties to the US-financed anti-Castro and anti-communist groups link
So Assange is getting a taste of his own medicine. You know what they say "What goes around, cums around." ... or something like that.
Yeah. If I dared to tell anyone that I didn't think Mohammed was the last messenger from God while I was in Saudi Arabia, and they jailed me for it, oh well. Gotta respect their laws while you're there.
Of course that's absolute bullshit. Any law that denies a person a right to defend themselves from undue process of law is unjust, period, unless it's putting away someone you don't like. I've read through the document, and I do think Assange should submit himself to further evidentiary proceedings once he is assured of receiving the same treatment as someone who isn't on the shitlist of half of the world governments.
Let's all remember why the authorities have decided that he doesn't deserve equal rights:
"He's made it more difficult for us to conduct our business with our allies and our friends." -Joe Biden
This guys fifteen minutes about up
EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
Actually, $(SUBJECT) says it all...
There is a theory that Assange is autistic, which would account for his tumultuous relationships. http://www.wrongplanet.net/postxf146011-0-15.html Check out what Mercurial wrote, who considers herself autistic.
What bothers me is the government isn't concerned how obviously fake these charges appear. I miss the days when the western democracies pretended its citizens had rights.
What is it with this Wiki thing anyway? I come from a country where Wiki was once a popular girls name. My mother had an Aunty Wiki (apparently she was married to uncle Bob.)
Seriously, condoms are tough things. You can stretch them well beyond anything they are designed to contain, blow them up to many times their normal volume. They are intended to prevent pregnancy (as well as infection) and are subject to stringent testing.
How likely is it that a condom would 'break', and even if it did, how would either of the participants know about it if they were in the middle of rumpy pumpy. That is assuming it wasn't left hanging in threads flailing about all over the place.
If Assange did 'break' the condom intentionally as has been suggested, how is it claimed he did it? Did he tear it in half, take the scissors to it? Bite it?
This part of the accusation seems otherworldly.
This report was on its way to the Swedes when it was leaked. It is more like a request from the US rather than a factual report.
Counter intelligence is sometimes counter intuitive.
No, there is no difference, at least not how Assange publishes information on Wikileaks. Wikileaks is a real organization, just like many corporations. Are you saying that leaks relating to illicit activity of, say the head of a major bank should not be published? Even if that is what you are saying, Wikileaks begs to differ. In the recent cable leaks, was a lot of information relating to individuals health conditions, medical records, affairs, etc. Why should the head of Wikileaks be allowed a pass, when the people he reports on aren't?
And before anybody comments, that in Assange's case, they are trumped up charges by the CIA or some government, please don't. The charges against him were filed before his current leaks which are pissing off many a government, particularly the US. Besides, do you really think if the CIA was clairvoyant, they wouldn't use this ability on something more important like Iraq or Afghanistan?
Whether what he did with the two woman is right or wrong, is up for the Swedish court system to decide. Releasing information about the case, while embarrassing for him, is no different than what he does. Heck, for all we know, his organization is the leak, so he can claim he can't get a fair trial now that the info is out.
Personally, I think that if the women's accounts are true, he should be held accountable. I'm pretty sure, as is the case with the second woman, that having sex while one is asleep, means it is not consensual. If the prime minister of some country had done it, Wikileaks would be all over it. There is an old saying about people in glass houses and stones.
Really, because from what I've read, even the Pentagon had admitted that no troops were endangered by the leaks.
Yes, they originally stated that lives were endangered, but later had to change their tune after they really couldn't find anything to that effect.
So unless you count lives being endangered by people being more pissed off at the US in general (a symptom I attribute more to the ignorance of corporate-government policy and meddling than wikileaks), I'd say that the only real danger thus far has been to the careers of various high-up politicos and corporations.
Jealousy.
He had sex with one woman. No problem.
He had sex with a second woman. No problem.
The first woman gets to hear about his having sex with the second woman and the second woman gets to hear about his having sex with the first woman... and his problems develop from the time of that discovery.
They decide to gang up against him and harm him as best they can.
It's no conspiracy by the CIA. It's jealousy in a land whose laws favour the spiteful.
Something in the ladies vagina broke it.
Haven't I seen this post somewhere before?
Quite easily actually. If you want to test it have your girlfriend clench her thighs just before you thrust... many women know this and use it as a test of their boyfriend's fidelity. (As in, "which is more important to him, my safety or his pleasure?")
this joke will never get old
With a name like that, life in school must have been hell for him.
"described by media".. She's very officially a member of the Swedish social democrats, not a communist party but yes, a "leftist" one.
c++;
It's actually not that difficult that it breaks if there's very little lubrication, with each thrust it stretches more and more until it breaks. And yes, you can feel it broken because the penis causes less friction than a dry condom -- though you can easily mistake it for the onset of vaginal fluid production.
This geek, an uber-nerd, who looks like a cross between Johnny Winters and a vampire goes to see a priest. "I want to confess," he says. "But you're not Catholic, you're not even religious. Why would you want to confess?" "Please! I must!" So the priest says okay. And the albino vampire tells him, "The other week I fucked these two girls." "Yes, my son." "They were a couple of Swedish chicks, both great in bed." "Continue, young man." "One of them though I was such a good lay, she threw me a party. And the other one liked it so much she emailed all her friends." "This is a sin, but I don't understand why you're telling me this." "Telling you?", says the vampire, "I'm telling everyone!"
Reuters says : The two Swedish women who accuse WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sexual misconduct were at first not seeking to bring charges against him. They just wanted to track him down and persuade him to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases, according to several people in contact with his entourage at the time.
The women went to the police together after they failed to persuade Assange to go to a doctor after separate sexual encounters with him in August, according to these people, who include former close associates of Assange who have since fallen out with him.
>>> state that their encounters with him began consensually, but became non-consensual
Then later,
>>> Both women say that Assange first agreed to use a condom and then refused, [...] and in the second [instance] by having sex without using a condom with a woman who was asleep.
Consensual sex with a sleeping woman? How does one give consent or negotiate the terms for consent when one is asleep?
It's pretty easy to say "has ties to" and make implications, but none of those links in the article point to specific relationships. It says she wrote articles for an "anti-Castro" magazine. This magazine is accused of by one Swedish professor as having connections with an "anti-Castro" organization. Among this organization's leaders is one man who once had a public argument with a critic where he threw out some personal accusations. A blogger read these accusations, disregarded any possibility of baseless sparring between adversaries, and believed them too specific for a single man to uncover. Then, in true conspiracy theorist fashion, he searched the internet for tenuous connections between this man and US foreign aid programs as evidence
Now, let's forget about this subtle "anti-Castro"/"pro-democracy" turn of phrase, and judge these sites for the time being as unbiased, and work backwards from US foreign aid programs to Ardin. How many leaps across fact-less precipices must one make in order to arrive from one end to the other? I'd say one is too many for a rational man. I invite everyone to read all those links on counterpunch.org and to explain how this is any different from accusations thrown by 911 truthers.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
I meant to finish that sentence "...between this man and US foreign aid programs as evidence of CIA influence so as to discredit him."
That's the entire chain of links summarized.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
If only there were some kind of website that could host leaked information, in a wiki format perhaps. Some sort of LeakWiki maybe?
Shouldn't Assange have already posted it?
If it's a confidential internal police document, how would he have posted it prior to it being leaked?
There isn't any hypocrisy here, is there?
I'm not trolling -- I mean, seriously?
Yeah, not being omniscient makes him a real hypocrite. I mean, seriously. If he's posting documents in his possession, then for God's sake, he ought to also post documents NOT in his possession! To do otherwise would be hypocrisy! It would be a double standard!
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
As much as to the positive things being done by WikiLeaks, Julian is putting himself out there, literally. Where he is being the frontman for WikiLeaks, he has allowed himself to get into this kind of a mess. Don't get me wrong, I'm not doing the holier than thou. He knew the shitstorm that was going to happen with the cable leaks and he put himself into an unfavorable position. I would bet that if the scenario played out a dozen other times with minor changes, this wouldn't have happened, just some bad timing.
I think the only reasonable conclusion is this: Julian Assange has an ungodly large penis.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
He's intelligently using his strengths where they will most benefit his purpose. Compare with other celebrities who have huge egos and are media whores, e.g. Paris Hilton. How many of them use those qualities as a way of drawing attention to lies and duplicity at the highest levels of the US government? No, instead they use them to make money.
If you're not a media whore, you're a pretty stupid and useless kind of activist. Assange is doing something interesting and worthwhile with his whoredom.
I piss off bigots.
Ideally no, a police investigation isn't "government dealings". Maybe in your country the two are the same but I believe some countries strive to separate the two. This would be a better position to be in, to allow fair and independent investigation of politicians by police officers when required.
For FUCK'S sake, cite the fucking original source not what has been passed through all these useless parasites regurgitating while diluting and colouring whatever facts there were at each step? So, it took me 2 whole minutes to find at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/world/europe/19assange.html
What next: A Tweet referring to a blog copying a Usenet post... How can the editors let these douchebags promote their worthless blogs like this, in the guise of a news story they've plagiarised from someone else?
Other Muslim countries do not have any rule to punish a raped person.
Bangladesh. Indonesia. Saudi Arabia (again). Mauritania. Pakistan. India. Turkey.
I could, of course, go on. This doesn't even touch honor killings that aren't part of State-backed mistreatment of victims of rape. I don't believe the United States should be dumb enough to think it can make people change their minds on women's rights through violence, but I also don't think we should be allies with nations that ignore this type of behavior.
You must Acquit.
So, one point of view is +5 insightful and the other guy who has an opposite point of view is a troll.
I hope this will balance itself out overtime.
Anna Ardin (the official complainant) is often described by the media as a “leftist”. She has ties to the US-financed anti-Castro and anti-communist groups link
So a leftist can't be anti-Castro or anti-Communist?
That's not just a lame strawman you implictly tossed up there, it's a damn anencephailic Thalidomide strawman.
"Leftist" indeed. Not leftist though. The social democrats and the moderates were traditionally the biggest parties for left/right politics, but now they are both moving towards a middle point somewhere to the right of where the old center used to be. (Moderates are changing their rhethoric to be more appealing to workers, while still running a policy that's a lot better for people with high incomes, while the social democrats are copying the moderate ideas and recently said that they must stop trying to be a voice for unemployed or too-sick-to-work people)
Or something to that effect. Can you do better?
She has also done a runner to the West Bank - so Israel didn't consider her threat.
I personally think Mr. Assange did commit rape. I think it's not about being a pig or not being a pig - it's not black and white - men can be rude. Of course this wouldn't apply to slashdotters, as nerds are known to be on the gentler side, but Assange is a different character. Doesn't mean he is a scumbag - I think he met two attractive and liberated women and sort of failed to well, show his better side. Also, consider that Anna Ardin has withdrawn her charges and apparently holds little to no grudge against him, in light of the proportions this has taken. It is irrelevant what character she is - people have had sex and quarreled, something didn't go very much in a gentlemen-like manner. Pity. That said, I think Wikileaks needs to proceed, and Assange SHOULD be imprisoned FOR RAPE (not whatever U.S. would love to put on him while he is in the process of risking jail in Sweden.)
Has anyone of you by chance had sex with Swedish women? They're completely out of control in bed, like furias or something. It's fireworks all the way. Imagine you're a guy exclusively preoccupied with waging war on unrighteous and the liars and idealistic enough to stand up to U.S. government, you come to Sweden, hook up with friends, they take you to a bar, are infatuated with you and you get to get under the bed sheets with hot Swedish young women who can't get enough of you. Oh gee, a condom broke - let's lock this asshole up for 100 years in prison and i dunno, whip his feet with iron rods. Because media can't make up their mind and neither can we - should we hate or love Assange? Well, how about a dose of reality - people make mistakes, sometimes really ugly mistakes, but the world is not black and white. This doesn't mean that the rich and powerful get to keep their secrets though - everyone can benefit from forced change and venting off once in a while, including and ESPECIALLY a government gone too comfortable with the darker side of politics. So I say put yourself in Assange shoes and imagine what would it take for you to end up where he end up.
This isn't the first place I've heard this, but this terminology confuses me. I would think being anti-communist would qualify her as being a rightist as communism is seen as leftist. Or do the terms here mean something other than what I'm used to?
What good would that do if the boyfriend doesn't know this? No, you generally can't tell if the condom breaks unless it's a really wierd model.
Slagborr
Here's something I've never understood about how I've seen this woman being labeled by the media: if she's a "leftist" wouldn't she be more likely to be pro-Castro and pro-Communist instead of the opposite? Or is she some kind of convoluted center-left that's actually anti-extreme-left?
The feeling's entirely different. You know when your condom breaks.
Why is wikileaks so important and popular? People are tired of secrets that sacrifice the public interests.
"...on Alexander Cockburn’s far-left website Counterpunch by the writers Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett (more on them in a moment) positing that because Ardin, who wrote a master’s thesis on the Cuban opposition movement, visited the "Ladies in White"—a group comprised of female relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents—while conducting research in Havana, and the vile extremist Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles (who was once employed by the CIA) went to a Miami protest on behalf of the Ladies in White, it follows that Ardin is therefore connected to the CIA. Got that? In 2007, the Ladies in White were presented with the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament, raising the tantalizing possibly that Ardin is also an agent of Brussels."
http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/07/olbermann-assange-and-the-holo
Actually condoms tend to get really dry before they break. If its dry-dry-dry-wet it pretty safe to assume the condom didn't automatically lube itself.
I'm confused by both accounts, to be honest. I'll make no claims on who is in the right, but the information just seems strange to me.
Case 1 - did not stop sex after condom broke. I personally have never experienced a broken condom. It is something I'm rather paranoid about, and as such, check that condoms are not leaking after having sex. I've always been under the assumption that during continuous activity there would be no way to know about a break. So, how can someone ask me to stop for a reason they are unable to know about?
Case 2 - how in the world does someone consent to sex that was initiated while fully asleep? Unless saying, "I'm going to sleep now, but feel free to have sex with me while I'm out", I don't see how consent could be involved.
Regardless, this is a situation that's certainly raising questions - both in innate cultural misogyny and in the realm of plausible political conspiracy.
I'm curious to see how things turn out, and desperately hope that wikileaks can survive this, that my government isn't engaged in a smear campaign for conspiracy, and that Assange gets punishment in line with how faulty his character really is - freed if innocent, punished if a rapist.
Getting diabetes AND salmonella would be a bad weekend.
I always get them confused. Long story.
Like any charged term "leftist" can mean many things. Her reasons for not liking Castro may be for some of the same reasons Trotsky didn't like Stalin, while both were definitely described as leftists AND communists. She might be the sort of leftist who doesn't believe in communism, or maybe she disagrees with what Castro did with communism, or perhaps she believes that being a leftist should preclude you from having political prisoners and being generally anti-democratic.
man, how could he already have posted it, if it was leaked just recently ...
Read radical news here
Secondly, the oldest, over 30 years of age, worked at GT, the Gothenberg Expressen edition, and later worked for Swedish intelligence (MUST) through their embassies in South America and Cuba.
Also, Claues Borgstrom, one of the two partners of the law firm representing these two women, has two sisters who work for the Bonnier family, the media masters of Sweden, who also own that tabloid, Expressen, whence the first leaked stories appeared.
Now, the second partner, Thomas Bodstrom, is a published fiction author, and while the Bonnier family doesn't appear to own the publisher of his books, they do own the online company where they are sold (AdLibris).
Is this simply financially significant, or is there more? The Bonnier family has had long ties with the Swedish intel establishment, but best not to go into detail on that. By the way, Thomas Bodstrom happens to be in the USA (in the New York to Washington, D.C. corridtor) during the highest profile case of his firm?
Most likely, to coordinate the extradition to America, which is primarily what all this subterfuge is about. This entire thing has been handled by leaks: multiple and constant leaks from the Swedish Prosecution Authority regarding the ongoing case and Assange's file, etc.
And then there's Bodstrom's former cabinet co-member and former adviser, Par Nuder, recently appointed a director at Madeleine Albright's international lobbyist group, Albright Stonebridge Group.
So many posts about whether he's innocent or guilty...
There is a legal process to establish the fact of that. It will be decided by a jury or a panel of judges depending on the laws in Sweden.
This tirade of posts declaring his obvious guilt or innocence is just opinionated pandering to the government spin doctors who are trying to detract interest away from the substance of the leaks.
Its not our job to decide Julian Assange's fate. In trying to do so, we are reducing the chance that he will have any kind of fair trial.
Shouldn't we be more interested in our governments' lack of action regarding the crimes evidenced in the cablegate leaks?
Actually it's really small.
or god-like
The existence of the insurance file regardless of the Rick Roll content and him saying I'll release all these secrets if you shut me down is undeniably Black Mail, and he should have his year in prison and the fine for doing it. It is what makes him a despicable deplorable human being, and doesn't help him in other arguments about the type of character he is. It is also why he isn't a journalist of any kind.
Now the rape can go ether way in my opinion but I view it's probably all just a contrived story that he and the girls colluded to get a conspiracy theorists spot light on him.
If you don't have ideals, or try to improve your lot or that of your fellow citizens, I'd say you're in a pretty bad place.
So far I've picked up from this thread:
a) Julian Assange may have two-timed a couple of women
b) He probably isn't gay
Who cares? Did Tiger Woods leave a gossip void that simply needed to be filled?
Phillip.
Property for sale in Nice, France
So he should return in order to be interrogated? How can he "prove his innocence"? What defense lawyer in their right mind would recommend him to return and incriminate himself? Getting him to talk in Sweden, a totally foreign country for Assange, they can come up with any and all charges at their own leisure.
It is the Swedish prosecutor who must now file formal charges, something they have not done yet. Only "allegations", which mysteriously to all, finds its way on the Interpol (very very suspicious).
"Allegations" are not charges. How can Assange defend himself against unspecified crimes?
This combined with PayPal, VISA, Mastercard, Swiss banks and Bank Of America preventing their customers to transfer money to Wikileaks, smells like something very very rotten.
Exactly what Wikileaks is created to expose!
Btw, did you know promiscuity may be genetically triggered? We should not be so quick to condemn. Look at the bigger picture.
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/
If Assange stands upon a pedestal and says, with a smirk on his face, that they fucked again and leaves, laughing at the charges?
Everybody needs to go read The Myth of Male Power . Like, right now. SOOOOOOOOO relevant to this article.
Once a formal charge is filed, you can bet these women's sorry ass a counter-suit for untruthful allegations and collaboration is to follow.
But by the time all this has blown over, Assange's life will already have been ruined by the powerful people behind the invisible strings. These sex-allegations are perfect, dubious and speculative, but enough to mow down Assange and his credibility, together with the denial of all business with every major corporation on the planet. The right to possess money (banking) has already been taken away from him, without any evidence of criminal activity or judgements against him.
Who will step up and assist him now? It will be professional and personal suicide.. You will also get registered and surveilled for the rest of your life.
Unless we expose it all that is.
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/
If they can throw Clinton out of office for having sex with a secretary, when Bush can start wars on false grounds, and most presidents are known for similar "extravagance", then this is just more of the same shit.
It's not that we condone Mr. Assange's or Clinton's behaviour. But it is not criminal, just a leverage for someone behind the scenes to manipulate media and everyone into getting what they want.
What we need to do is reward and support those who expose such abuse of power, even if it is just "political".
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/17/tj-hemlinger-emails_n_798104.html
I've not had much trust in nor respect for Interpol since I learned that Reinhard Heydrich (a.k.a. "The Butcher of Prague") was president of Interpol from 24 August 1940 to 4 June 1942.
Great men are almost always bad men--Lord Acton's Corollary
...said that they would consider the US extradiction requests and would probably (not certainly but only *probably* - yeah right) extradite him the second he set foot on Swedish soil.
Apparently, rape charges are not as serious as the request of the US to extradite someone for acts that are legal in the country he lives in at the time, and are legal in Sweden as well.
And in other worldnews, Hungary has passed a law bringing heavy fines into play for any media that is not providing "moral" and "objective" news. Since the judge of that has just been confirmed (for 9 years) by the very conservative government, most people think this *won't* be used against the fascist movement of Jobbik, but probably against people reporting on embarrassing news like Wikileaks cables. Fines can go up to 700000 euro per violation, which is quite a lot compared to the monthly wage in Hungary. Oh, and all media has to register. That includes you, bloggers.
People can call Assange whatever they like, and he may be the biggest scumbag in the world, but if you don't see the writing on the wall writ large for freedom of the press, you need glasses.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
Anna Ardin (the official complainant) is often described by the media as a “leftist”. She has ties to the US-financed anti-Castro and anti-communist groups link
That article contains more factual errors in every sentence then I thought was possible. Don't they check any facts? They even get simple things like the spelling and capitalisation of Säpo wrong (and it isn't a "secret police" it's a security service, even though it is somewhat more secretive then other branches of the Swedish police force, it is still open for investigation by representatives of the Swedish public (mostly journalists and politicians, you have to get a security clearance (it isn't that hard, it is on the same level that you need to go sailing in some archipelagos in Sweden, basically you have to be a Swedish citizen and haven't done anything really extreme in your past, even weird people like me, with really radical friends, get higher grade security clearance then the one required), they are in turn allowed to reveal all generic mechanisms used by Säpo to everybody they like, as long as they don't reveal any specific information they have happened to see).
Wow! Was her name Marina Oswald?
'Cause then i'd be guessing the magic bullet is Assange's condom leak went 'back, and to the left'.
Just a guess there, Jerry.
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...and if the nature doesn't supply any, we still have the lawyers :)
Well, the Swedish bikini team doesn't look so hot now, does it?
At the same time? Two Swedish women at that! Holy cow! Now only does he risk his neck (and all other limbs) by helping to make our world a better place with his technological ideas, he's also the man with the (Swedish) babes! He truly is a digital James Bond! @@7 I'll call him from now on! Now that's what I call someone to idolize! :)
When they met and realized the same guy had done the same thing to someone else they realized that what happened to them was not an "accident", that they didn't somehow misunderstand, that their self doubt was unjustified and that this guy needed reporting.
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
Did either of these women actually expect Julian Assange to keep something under wraps?
i'll install some spycams first
beware he who denies you access to information for in his mind, he already deems himself to be your master (SMAC-ish)