Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316Posted Aug 21, 2010, 3:39 PM UTC
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WTF? The CIA must have seen that none of us were buying it so they have to think up a new plan now.
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They will probably just assassinate him and make it look like a "suicide" :^/
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It is a lot harder to take back a successful suicide attempt.
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Child porn?
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Maybe
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Methinks the Swedish won't let these false accusations die quietly. Expect to see a backlash against the CIA.
/POPCORN
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Expect them to eventually declare war on Sweden. Or all of us.
/GULAG
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Going to Norway. BRB... wait, nm.
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You do know that he has pissed off many other governments as well so why place all the blame on the CIA?
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Because Obama seems to share his predecessors fondness for civil liberties.
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I'm glad they dropped the charges, but I want to know why. The article provides none of this.
Did the girls recant? Was there not enough evidence? Was he being framed(as it appeared)?
Edit: Found an article with a better description
"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape," chief prosecutor Eva Finne said in announcing the withdrawal of the warrant. She did not address the status of the molestation case, a less serious charge that would not lead to an arrest warrant.
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But if there's no reason to suspect him, how was the warrant issued?
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ALERT: Right-wing infiltration. I was here just 3 minutes ago, the comments that I agreed with were all in the small positive numbers. When I came back they were 0 or in the negative numbers.
Don't you CIA guys have people to frame?
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So is it to be assumed that conservatives are generally against leaks, and liberals for them? How do leaks fit in to a political spectrum? Surely the people who are against leaks are those whose information is being leaked and people who are for it are all the people interested in what the information contains and by extension what the organisation has to hide. Is it because wikileaks leaked military documents that the right would be opposed to it? Are the right inherently opposed to openness in government?
I genuinely want to know the answers to these things by the way so please tell me!
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I think that generally conservatives lick the nuts of those in power, ie CIA, Military etc. and Liberals root for the underdog, ie working class people, small websites fighting "the man", etc.
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But, but, but, conservatism is based on limiting the power of those in power. Can we not come up with a new word for people who call themselves conservatives but actually whatever it is that these people are?
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Douchebags
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US government is an incredibly corrupt entity. i'm glad the charges are dropped against assange so he can continue exposing war crimes of american soldiers.
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Yes, so corrupt they are actually upset that a foreign national is leaking classified information relating to national security. And the thing most liberal-minded thinkers fail to realize is that the more that is made of it, the more the conservative bosses will try to take him out completely.
It's okay, he is being cannonized on the internet in advance.
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I think he's ready for that, should it come down to it. And what better example would there be of how far we've gone in this country? I don't think that there should be no such thing as classified documents, I understand the need, but it is nowadays far, FAR too easy to classify something and far to difficult to declassify it. Documents should not be classified because they make the US look bad or contradict our propaganda about how the war is going. We need to vastly raise our standards on what is classified and what is not.
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I just want to know... Have you ever actually dealt with classified government documents? I do, and there are real reasons to protect sensitive information. It's not always about national security, either. Could be economic, technological, or other reasons. The U.S. doesn't classify something because they want to keep their own people in the dark - they don't want the information to fall into the wrong hands because it often gives away an advantage that someone has worked hard to develop.
Again, not just military, but I can tell you that there are a lot of countries that would use what they found to compete unfairly with the people who spent the time and money to develop something. And those countries are constantly trying to break into American servers. Just seems a shame that someone uninvolved feels they have the right to release potentially damaging documents to the world because they don't agree with what is in those documents or the country who produced them.
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Secrecy and democracy are mutually exclusive. Additionally, secrets are kept primarily to hide incompetence and criminality.
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So do you think we aren't overclassifying? I'm not saying that there isn't a reason that some stuff is classified, but rather that it's become more a question of what NOT to classify rather than what to classify. The government is supposed to work for us, the people, and in order to do that I think we need as much information as possible. IMO everything not defense related developed or whose development is funded by the government should be open to the whole world.
It's hard to be an informed public when the government classifies anything that doesn't match their narrative.
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What's a rape warrant? They send the goons out and they try to find and rape you?
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Of course there is, we have Obstruction of Justice just as you guy do.
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007: License to Rape
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I'm not saying that Assange raped a girl in 2010, only that I don't see him denying it.
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ok, he prolly just had sex with the girl. and you know in our today society it's the quickest way to break a guy.
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The damage has already been done. More accusations will follow. Even if he is never convicted they will continue to attempt to destroy his reputation.
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I just don’t think it’s going to work. He has such a high profile right now and many people don’t know what to think of him. Random, shocking charges like rape will raise more red flags about the situational weirdness than about his character.
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I guess they realized it was too obvious what they were doing and no one would believe it.
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I hope by god that he didn't do anything. A man in his position should realize that everything that he does will be closely watch by all the government which where involved in the Afghanistan-documents.
At the same time, according to Swedish law the government have to look in to it if someone accuse him of rape, so of course he´ll be a suspect. It look like the Americans once again has managed to pay someone of to make their bidding...
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So did he turn himself in and is he still in custody? I hope those 2 bitches fry in hell. It looks like wikileaks just got played by the Pirate party, if the reports that I've been reading that he was their "Assignment" are true.
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He didn't even have time to turn him self in :P
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Thankfully. At least the prosecutor is thinking. I hope he gets the hell out of Sweden and never goes back. Fuck them with a rake for doing this to him. Women who file false rape allegations should be prosecuted for the same crime.
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Your anger with Sweden feels misplaced.
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You are right. It is. After all, it was Assange that got himself into this, and as Daniel Schmidt said, he must face it on his own. Sweden is also who got Assange out of this by dropping the warrant. I'm wondering if Assange has gotten a little too high on himself lately, and this is why WL only issued a statement of support instead of outrage.
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Source?
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http://www.expressen.se/Nyheter/1.2104976/wikileaks-grundare-anhallen-for-valdtakt
It says he met these 2 through their "assignments".
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Do you blame the Pirate Party? Surely the point is there will be people trying to entrap/harm Assange wherever he goes, and groups like the Pirate Party would be obvious choices for the US/global militaries & intelligence services to infiltrate to get close to him? (I don't speak Swedish so apologies if I've missed something.)
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among all the links posted here today, there is one where Falkvinge did an amazing backpedal, saying that mostly it had been his techs who dealt with Assange. Here's a link showing that to be untruth. http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-strikes-hosting-deal-with-wikileaks-100817/#comment-697917 He and Assange are sitting there signing the paperwork to align TPP with Wikileaks. I question whether Falkvinge would have backpedaled if these papers were still up in the air. And if these 2 women were "assigned" to have Assange sleep at their houses, who assigned them? Granted, Assange was not just in Sweden for TPP, he had other biz, but there was also some indication in the reports that the women may have been TPP members.
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So, it's just not possible that Julian Assange sexually attacked anyone? Where is the story about the person that reported this crime?
Why are we so willing to assume that he was "set up"? Is it possible that he was involved in something that might have had merit to the cops initially? Or is he too pure? Think about what you all are saying.
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Why are we so willing to assume that he was "set up"?
Lack of information & evidence.
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Let's see if Assange now thinks he can rape and pillage at will and then just blame it on the Pentagon. He could have blood dripping from his hands and reddit would still think he was innocent. Admit it.
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Lack of information & evidence.
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I support this "where there is smoke, there MUST be fire" mindset.
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Never trust a woman.
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Or your 12th disciple.
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or your gov't?
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Surely there is a punishment for falsely accusing a person of rape in Sweden...