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Time Runs Out On Sweden's Sexual Assault Charges Against Julian Assange
As the Guardian and many other sources report, the clock has run out on the three 2010 charges of sexual assault on which Swedish authorities had hoped try Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange has been waiting out those charges since 2012 in London, inside the Ecuadorian embassy, claiming that he feared extradition to the U.S. in connection to this Wikileaks work if he were first extradicted to Sweden. He was recently rebuffed after suggesting that he'd be interested in living in France as a political refugee. The linked Guardian story notes that the expiry of the Swedish prosecutors' time doesn't mean that Assange is no longer under scrutiny, as does CNN.
I think you're confused.
People who are on our side, whatever side that may be, never rape. If they're charged with rapes, it's due to lying sluts making fake charges due to political motives.
People who are against us however are never faced with false rape accusations. They're rapists, plain and simple. Even if they haven't been charged with rape.
Please keep these matters straight.
Also: It's easy to forget, but remember: rapists look like creepy guys who would jump out of the bushes with a knife. They never look like upstanding members of their community, and they never do things in their professional life that one can admire. Their whole life is dedicated to the pursuit of Rape and General Evil. We've all seen movies and TV shows, right? That's how rapists are in the real world too, because Hollywood is famous for accurate presentations.
Lastly: It's unfair to mention anything about Assange's past, so no mentioning his I am a god to women comments, his womens' brains can't do math comments, the accusations from whistleblowers working with him of misogyny and aggressive sexual behavior, accusations of cyberstalking a teenager before he got famous, his stopping an interview to oggle some pre-teens, or about 50 other things. Let's stick to the issues at hand: What a great hero he is! So kudos to him for his brave evasion of evil injustice!
I'll never forget the last thing grandma said to me before she died: "What are you doing in here with that knife?!?"
Swedish prosecutors have interviewed 44 suspects in the UK since 2010, while for five years declining Julian Assange’s offer to be interviewed at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London.
Meanwhile the UK already spent ~12M pound to make sure he doesn't leave the embassy. If these rape allegations where the only reason for this theatre then the British police would have told the Swedish prosecutor that they will make sure Assange stays put for two or three month in the Embassy to give them the opportunity to interview him, and then they would have stopped this wast of public money.
An additional alleged incident of sexual molestation will be "time barred" - that is, time will have run out to question Mr Assange - on 18 August.
The Swedish statement also said an allegation of rape was due to expire on 17 August 2020, but that investigation would continue.
So those lucky Ecuadorian diplomats might have the pleasure of his company for another five years.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Does anyone actually care about this guy's legal troubles?
Probably the woman that was raped...
You mean the one who said publicly that she wasn't? Or the other who more or less said the same?
When asked about this the prosecution said "Ah, but they're not lawyers".
I don't doubt this guy's a creep. I also don't doubt that there is more to this case than the alleged sexual offenses.
A couple minor issues.
1) Waiting for a girl to fall asleep so that you can F* her in a way that she repeatedly stopped you from doing and told you not to do while she was awake (charge #4 on the EAW, the one that's still open) falls under my standard of "heinous", but to each their own.
I'm not sure what you mean by "they dropped". Eva Finne (who ironically Assange fans used to rail against but now apparently love) only closed part of the investigation (never the whole thing), and this in response to the backlash of her earlier bungling (filing an arrest warrant for Assange when he had never at that point refused to cooperate).
2) The partial closure itself was itself some pretty heavy bungling in that it involved victim statements that hadn't even gone into the computer yet and without having interviewed Assange on the topic either - which is some pretty fundamental stuff. Sweden has a strong victims' rights process which allows accusers to appeal the closure of a case that they feel was handled incorrectly. This brings it before a review board; about 20% of such cases are reopened. The women's (then-mutual) legal representative, Claes Borgström, filed such a request for them, and it was approved.
I'll never forget the last thing grandma said to me before she died: "What are you doing in here with that knife?!?"
3) Sweden was so mad at the US extradition program ignoring their ban on use of their airspace for extradition flights that they caused a diplomatic rift with the US in 2006 by disguising their special forces soldiers as airport workers to sneak aboard a suspected extradition plane. And how do we know about this event? Why, Wikileaks of course!
On one hand they are mad, on the other hand it continues to happen. It is very unlikely that it happens without high level consent from the swedes. This being a major problem.
Also both the women are now uncooperative, one of them has even fled to Australia.
I am not supporter of Assange, and consider him a megalomaniac, but his concerns are quite valid.
I wish you blind assange supporters would at least stick to the truth. But of course this has never been about the truth.
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