In a move that was so predictable most would have thought it didn’t warrant actually happening, the Swedish police report on Julian Assange has been “leaked”.
Hilarious!
Can’t we all just hear the frustrated strains of “That’ll show the fucker!” oozing from slime lubricating the machinery haphazardly constructed to pull Julian in, chew him up, then spit out something much more digestible to the masses.
Here’s a bit of what the conversation leading to this might have sounded like:
Slimeball: Okay, Peeps, we’ve found him, got him to turn himself in on the bullshit sex charges, but can’t get a handle on the spin. Ideas?
Fuckwad: We are squirming through every possible loophole we can find, but until the Espionage Act gifts us something we can’t charge him. Poop!
Jerkoff: And now that that Aussie bitch has fucked us, they’ll be no help from down under.
Slimeball: This isn’t helping.
Fuckwad: Hey! How ’bout we turn the tables on him and LEAK the Swede’s police report? He’ll at least look like a jerk that says he’ll call, but never does. You know how that pisses women off.
Slimeball: Maybe that will get Biana Jagger to back off … hm. Great idea, FW!
Jerkoff: Can we do that?
Slimeball: Of course we can do that! We can do anything we want!
Jerkoff: No … I mean, does anyone here know how to leak stuff?
Group head scratching ensues …
Apparently, however, someone was found to pass the info along to newspapers:
The British newspaper The Guardian broke the news of the report on Saturday, and quoted extensively from what it said was an unredacted copy. The New York Times later obtained a redacted form of the report from another source in Swedish. It is a preliminary summary of the evidence taken by investigators when they met with the two women and with Mr. Assange, who left Sweden for Britain in early October but subsequently refused to return to Sweden for further questioning.
A “preliminary summary” … hm. That must mean further evidence that caused dropping of the charges and the further further evidence that saw that charges reinstated are not included. Tidy.
Read all about it at the link above for details on the two women who sought him out, fucked him gladly, then changed their tunes. No need here to go into possible reasons for going after the guy, but consideration should be made of the fact that charging him with anything real has proven difficult.
Michael Moore’s letter to the government of Sweden today gives a very clear picture of what’s up with the crap there:
… In fact, they say that all over Scandinavia, including in your country, rapists “enjoy impunity.” And the United Nations, the EU and Swedish human rights groups have come to the same conclusion: Sweden just doesn’t take sexual assault against women seriously. How else do you explain these statistics from Katrin Axelsson of Women Against Rape:
– Sweden has the HIGHEST per capita number of reported rapes in Europe.
– This number of rapes has quadrupled in the last 20 years.
– The conviction rates? They have steadily DECREASED.
Axelsson says: “On April 23rd of this year, Carina Hägg and Nalin Pekgul (respectively MP and chairwoman of Social Democratic Women in Sweden) wrote in the Göteborgs [newspaper] that ‘up to 90% of all reported rapes [in Sweden] never get to court.'”
Let me say that again: nine out of ten times, when women report they have been raped, you never even bother to start legal proceedings. No wonder that, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, it is now statistically more likely that someone in Sweden will be sexually assaulted than that they will be robbed.
Message to rapists? Sweden loves you!
So imagine our surprise when all of a sudden you decided to go after one Julian Assange on sexual assault charges. Well, sort of: first you charged him. Then after investigating it, you dropped the most serious charges and rescinded the arrest warrant.
Then a conservative MP put pressure on you and, lo and behold, you did a 180 and reopened the Assange investigation. Except you still didn’t charge him with anything. You just wanted him for “questioning.” So you — you who have sat by and let thousands of Swedish women be raped while letting their rapists go scott-free — you decided it was now time to crack down on one man — the one man the American government wants arrested, jailed or (depending on which politician or pundit you listen to) executed. You just happened to go after him, on one possible “count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape (third degree).” And while thousands of Swedish rapists roam free, you instigated a huge international manhunt on Interpol for this Julian Assange!
Time spent investigating him in Australia ended up with zip, zero zilch there:
Police in Australia have concluded that WikiLeaks and its Australian-born founder Julian Assange have not broken any laws in his home country by publishing classified U.S. documents, the government said Friday.
Wonder how many other countries wasted time and resources trying to figure out if Julian had, by any possible chance at all, done anything worth charging over.
Singapore might get him on that ‘chewing gum in public’ infraction. Quick! Someone call Interpol!
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there was a time when i loved the USA. But I must say that their moral “high horse” is getting the better of me! democrats, republicans – there is a preachy guardian of morality tone to all they say and do that wants to make me throw up – especially in light of their actions! their fingerprints are all over Julian’s case file!
LOVED the dialogue piece!! :-))
I left the USA in 1993 and haven’t understood much of what happens there since. Since my departure was pre-OJ, that seems the point where things started getting weird.
Thanks, Eben.
Not commenting on Assange or his case.
Commenting on the numbers argument.
Where better for a rapist to go?
Especially one whose life revolves around numbers?
’tis interesting, yes …
Loved the article, Sandra. Funny and sad.
It’s seems unbelievable that barbarism still flourishes world-wide. When will people start treating each other with dignity and respect?
Last week, I read about the conditions that Bradley Manning is held under. My heart goes out to him.
I don’t understand.
Me, neither … sigh …
Great article luv and cracked up over the dialogue. Michael Moore always calls it like it is and you know how I love fat boys but that’s beside the point. Shocking stats and good to know. Don’t even try to understand what is going on over here. I live here and I can’t figure it out.
Got me writing, and that’s always a good thing …
The timing of the sex thing is highly suspect and smacks of the worst kind of propaganda and character attacks. Has US Government writ large all over it. After all, if you can’t get the guy for the real crime get him for something else. Worked to get Al Capone. Don’t forget, he ended up in prison not for selling alcohol during prohibition, running an organized crime outfit or killing a bunch of people, he ended up there for not paying his taxes.
I have not spent the time to read the leaked documents which, so far, have been a minuscule percentage of the total acquired. I’ll leave that to a few folks whose reasoned and thoughtful opinions make sense to me. Also, I’ll count on the established journalistic avenues to which the papers have been leaked and subsequently published to have basically sound judgment(I know, probably not wise in the long run). As one of those respected critics of journalism pointed out yesterday(sorry, don’t remember his name but I can find it for you if pressed) At no time in American history has a news source ever knowingly jeopardized the life of an American soldier/operative. The best example; New York Time and Washington Post knew about the Bay of Pigs invasion a few days in advance of the actual operation and did not publish it. Turned out to be a mute point but there you have it. American journalism has, and continues to, publish embarrassing information. In the long run that’s all it is. And more power to ’em. Most people(governments) keep secrets to keep from being embarrassed.
After too many adult beverages and too many words, here’s my point: If you’re going to give access to ‘secret’ documents to a low level soldier, maybe you shouldn’t also give him access to a rewritable cd drive. The guy is at work. What’s he doing listening to Lady Gaga at work! Jesus! You’re the fucking army. You make the rules. No personal music. No writing ‘secret’ documents over your music. No thumb drives allowed. The army on this one, is a total computer security moron. At the same time, soldier boy, if you steal secret documents you’re going to get busted. Especially if you try to sell them.
So, please, while i don’t necessarily disagree with the intent, lets not forget that our Mr. Assange is making available STOLEN DOCUMENTS!
To steal Dennis Miller’s line, ‘Of course, that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong’.
I’ll just leave my soap box now…
I like your soapbox, Bill!