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Spanish Superjudge To Represent Assange
First time accepted submitter ccguy writes "Spanish ex-judge Balsazar Garzón will represent wikileak's Julian Assange in his extradiction case. In the past 30 years Garzón has led the most important investigations in Spain: Against drug cartels, against terrorist groups (ETA), and against corruption. He's also famous for his attempt to extradite Chilean dictator Pinochet to Spain to judge him for crimes against humanity. In his last investigation Garzón ordered in-prison conversations between corrupt politicians and their lawyers to be monitored. This is legal in Spain if the goal is to prevent further crimes to be committed (such as the inmate telling his lawyer to destroy evidence, or offshore funds). This caused Garzón to be disbarred as a judge. The president of the Supreme Court that signed this disbarment (Carlos Dívar) was later on made to resign, after it was discovered that he used taxpayers' money for deluxe vacations."
This is becoming more and more media circus. Garzon has no credibility, as he acted as political activist, not a judge. But, perhaps, the best defense attorney for a mediawhore is another mediawhore - see also, fighting bullshit with bullshit, Michael Moore style.
In US, closest equivalent to Garzon would be Kenneth Starr or Spiro Agnew, or Lynne Stewart.
Second, the only dumb enough people to use the term "rape" for what he did, are the Swedish.
Go and read the various UK court rulings on the matter - in one of them the Judge actually affirmed that the things Assange was being extradited for would also be classed as rape in the UK.
The problem is that no one on Slashdot gives a fuck about the truth in the Assange case, they just like to spout bullshit catch phrases such as yours, rubbish about "swedish rape"...
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/assange-judgment.pdf
Points 70 onwards, discussing the "dual criminality" (that Assanges solicitor argued that extradition should only take place if the offences were offences in both the requesting jurisdiction and the extraditing jurisdiction (Sweden and UK respectively)). The judge in the extradition case finds dual criminality in all four allegations against Assange.
So shut the fuck up about "swedish rape".