Julian Assange is no victim
By Graham Templeton on February 6, 2016 at 10:59 am
... In 2010, Julian Assange was running Wikileaks with wild abandon ... His vision of total government transparency set him dramatically at odds with the establishment, both for the reasons he imagined (greed, and fear of being eaten by the mob) and those he didn’t (genuine concerns about national security and the personal safety of operatives around the world). He was on the cover of magazines, speaking on the biggest television shows, and generally being the biggest civilian side-thorn the security establishment had ever known.
And he was accused of sexual assault ...
The plot twist just seemed too convenient to be believed, and even the activist groups that usually make rape their central issue were skeptical; if only through omission and lack of investigation, the whole world collectively seemed to assume that Assange’s accusers were paid operatives of the US government. As time went on, however, this admittedly common-sense view of the situation came under fire from the facts ...
I don’t know whether he deserves to go to jail for anything that did or did not happen in the bedrooms of Swedish activists. But I do know that he is not a victim for his choice, which long predates his voluntary stay in the Ecuadorian embassy, to avoid the personal and legal pleas these women have been sending him ...
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/222481-julian-assange-is-no-victim
