Judefa

Guy Rundle finds more questions than answers in the frankly weird sex charges against the WikiLeaks boss. I personally still don’t get (a) why women - and these two had plainly been in awe of Assange - would go to the cops over something best kept private and (b) why the fucking self-righteousness, when they had obviously wanted to bed the guy.

Why get cops to demand a STD examination from Assange? If they were concerned why didn’t they just go to their doctors? 

Excellent examination of the chain of events from leaks on US military to legal pursuit of Assange. Scroll past the No 19 to get to background not widely known outside Sweden and v interesting summation of events.



Excerpt:
Sweden has a huge discussion forum in Flashback.org. In a country with a mere nine million residents, Flashback can boast nearly a half million members. Do the math there. And the discussion thread about Assange has grown to over t…en thousand posts over the past fortnight. And it’s become the #1 hunting place for foreign reporters who want to find out what’s going on.

The contributors at Flashback are far better journalists than the hyenas from the mainstream who watch over them. They’ve really dug into things, uncovered the identities of the two girls, lots more. This is where most of the international media got their information - together with the clumsy Google Translate of course.

Trying to connect the dots, trying to see what’s really happening, has always been the ultimate goal at Flashback. But almost everyone there has been looking in a single direction - towards the ‘rabble-rouser’. Towards one Anna Ardin, a queer/lesbian militant feminist, cofounder of the first lesbian nightclub on her home island of Gotland, author of the Swedish version of the seven step programme for exacting revenge on enemies and several other masters degree papers on the Cuban resistance and the systematic use of rape in matriarchies (!) to preserve power. She seemed a likely target and was already widely hated for her previous actions.

This is what living in a really politically correct nation is like: you get reported for failing to use a condom.
A lawyer for Assange recounts the incidents that led to sex charges in this article.
The situation is farcical.
These are a couple of women with whom he had consensual but “unsafe” sex - and the harridans reported him to police.



I wonder why Sweden legislates this way on “sex crimes” (as described in the article). The triviality of some of these cases would hardly be worth the cost and time involved in pursuing them unless it is actually malicious and meant to serve as an easy way of getting hold of people they can’t otherwise pin down.
All that was needed to set this process against Assange in motion was a report to police; rape was never mentioned.

Whether the women understood the consequences of their contacting the police is open to speculation, but given that they were likely smitten with him beforehand (one definitely was; a groupie in fact) it appears malicious, and perhaps abetted by people who want to cut him down, whether inside or outside the WikiLeaks organisation.