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| Authored by: Wol on Thursday, August 16 2012 @ 09:07 AM EDT |
Bear in mind, it seems that the FACTS of the case are that this has already been
through the Justice system in Sweden once, and got thrown out as "no case
to answer".
So to use the Anglo-Saxon term for it, it seems a pretty clear case of
"double jeopardy", with political pressure being placed on the other
party to change their story.
I can't vouch for the certainty of those facts, but it certainly comes across as
politically motivated persecution!
Cheers,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 16 2012 @ 11:05 AM EDT |
Being a Swede, I have every reason to believe the lawsuit is
brought in earnest . . .
I don't think
you can rightly say this. Lawsuits are filed by individuals, businesses,
organizations, agencies and etc.
1) Swedes are not known to be more
earnest than other peoples in other countries.
2) Plaintiffs are not
always the good guys and defendants the bad buys.
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Anyway, there is not lawsuit in this case, it
is a criminal matter. Moreover, last I checked, the criminal charges have not
been filed against Assange in Sweden. Sweden wants him to appear in Sweden to
answer questions about two alleged rapes.
The prosecutor herself
didn't allege the rapes and neither did the cops. This is not (yet) a case of
the State vs. Assange.
Two women who dated Assange filed rape charges
primarily on questionable consensual issues and protective prophylactic charges.
The prophylactic broke or fell off. Assange slept with one and then on the same
night, woke up and had sex again. But the second time he didn't wake her up
properly and get formal permission and was too rough. Who knows?
The
point I want to make is 'rape' in this particular is not what we might think of
when we think of rapes in terms of violent crime against completely unwilling
women. It is not so black and white.
It seems by what I've read that
the slept with him consentually in their apartments. Maybe when one discovered
the existence of the other, they both when after him. I mean their were no
emergency phone calls to the police after this, rape kit testing, immediate
reporting and whatever.
Somewhat sincerely, I'd like to say I wouldn't
want to date a woman in Sweden without an Attorney present to advise. Also
cameras and sound recording devices to avoid he said, she said
situations.
In regards to politics of this situation, the Commander in
Chief of the world's most powerful military personal wants him in the US. Also
and particularly, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton really wants him.
Also, the US Attorney General Eric Holder as well as Federal agencies put in a
lot of hours digging into Assange and Wikileaks looking for dirt and collecting
information and developing legal theories of possible ways to charge and convict
him.a They also influenced banks and credit card companies and paypal to cut off
his supply lines. Also taking Wikileak servers and websites off
line.
Politics to me are games like Obama and Romney
play.
What I see here is more like the powers of the world are out to
make him pay their price for what he did.
Also, if all Sweden really
wants is him to answer questions there are ways for him to stay in the UK and
answer the prosecutor in Sweden. This is not like the dark ages where we have to
travel to communicate.
If Sweden only wants him to answer questions,
why is it so important that he be on their soil?
Closing this post, I'd
like to state a personal opinion: I don't trust Assange's character, not at all.
I suspect his ex-sex partners of being of lower caliber ladies than I'd want to
be around. Come to think of it, I don't trust the good intentions of anyone in
particular, although odds have it there will be some well meaning
people.
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