Assange has betrayed Wikileaks and its principles

[struggle4progress]

Wednesday, 20 June 2012 9:02 AM
By Ian Dunt

Wikileaks is dead and Julian Assange killed it.

... Far from disseminating information, Assange now peddles disinformation. The most pernicious example is his claim that Swedish charges against him are part of a conspiracy to have him extradited to the United States. This claim has been bolstered by a considerable amount of nonsense about Sweden's 'feminist extremism' and the idea that the allegations against Assange would not constitute rape or sexual molestation in the UK ...

Assange has used the political sympathies of those who support him to protect himself from allegations which any moral society would take seriously. The very idea that it is easier for America to extradite someone from Sweden rather than the UK is laughable to anyone with even a passing acquaintance with the current extradition treaty. If you breathe wrong in this country, Theresa May will pack you off to the US for trial. That's how subservient we have become to our transatlantic cousins.

Assange's argument is absurd from top to bottom. But just to put the cherry on the cake, he then took up work for Russia Today, a state-owned news channel, whose funding government stabs journalists to death. His first interview was a relaxed chat with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. It's as if someone had written a play on the rise and fall of a freedom of information campaigner and Assange took it upon himself to act out the damning final scene ...

http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2012/06/20/comment-assange-has-betrayed-wikileaks-and-its-principles

[JNelson6563]

1. I hear heads exploding.

Golden calves always end up disappointing.

Julie

[reorg]

2. Assange would have to work real hard to beat Mr Dunce at his own game

Let's see how the "political editor of the Erotic Review" is going about it:

"Assange is accused by two women of sexual assault during a short break in Sweden in 2010. The first claims he held her down with his body weight during sex and that she was a victim of 'unlawful coercion'. The second claims that after they had protected sex one night, she awoke to find Assange having sex with her while she slept without a condom."

Not true, as everybody knows who has found the time to read the police report and the more informative articles and news on the case. But this kind of disinformation is, of course, targetted at the less informed.

As to the brazen claim that the (actual) allegations would constitute rape in the UK, perhaps he might give some examples? As an "erotic editor" he should know. One case, just one investigation into the matter, where during consensual sex the male partner slyly initiates another round without putting a condom on and where the female partner, as soon as she notices, expresses concern but continues to enjoy the encounter nevertheless, does not stop it, does not decline to further participate and makes it publicly known afterwards that she didn't feel raped.

One example. Anywhere in the world. And no, I'm not asking for convictions, whether or not it actually happened, I want to know where comparable allegations have led to an investigation, even in Sweden. One example, and he wins the price. Because nobody ever did.

Further information: http://rixstep.com/1/20110204,04.shtml