It's funny that Julian Assange is being sought on fake rape charges ("rape" in Sweden means having sex without a condom) while TSA agents get to finger anyone they want.
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
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That definition and the act he is accused of is NOT a crime in any
other country. Extradition treaties almost all list this as a
necessity.... The act of the accused must be a crime in both countries
to "legally" extradite.
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On Dec 5, 9:19 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am slowly beginning to wonder, in part after listening to Monica Crowley's
> radio show, if Bradley Manning is guilty of that much. The secrets he stole
> don't seem to be much of anything beyond that all the diplomats and
> government bureaucrats and rulers in the world are asshats. And the real
> crime seems to be that Obama (Bush, Clinton...) have made it easy for around
> 1 million people to steal these "secrets."
>
> Sweden's justice system may become a laughing stock over the rape charges
> against Wikileaks figurehead Julian Assange
>
> - James D Catlin
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> WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. *Source:* AP
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> *APPARENTLY having consensual sex in Sweden without a condom is punishable
> by a term of imprisonment of a minimum of two years for rape.*
>
> That was the basis for a recent revival of rape allegations against
> Wikileaks figurehead Julian Assange that is destined to make Sweden and its
> justice system the laughing stock of the world and dramatically damage its
> reputation as a model of modernity.
>
> Sweden's Public Prosecutor's Office was embarrassed in August this year when
> they leaked to the media that they were seeking to arrest Assange for rape,
> then on the same day withdrew the arrest warrant because in their own words
> there was "no evidence".
>
> The damage to Assange's reputation is incalculable.
>
> Three months on, and three prosecutors later, the Swedes seemed to be clear
> on their basis to proceed with a headline-grabbing international arrest
> warrant.
>
> Related Coverage> founder<http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/swedesn-issues-rape-arrest...>
>
> - Arrest warrant for WikiLeaks
> - Assange escapes arrest after
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>> Their SMS texts to each other show a plan to contact the Swedish newspaper *
> If consensual sex that started out with the intention of condom use, and
> actual condom use ended up without condom, that's rape.
>
> Statements by the two female "victims" Sophia Wilén and Anna Ardin that
> there was no fear or violence would stop a rape charge in any western
> country dead in its tracks.
>
> Rape is a crime of violence. Both women boasted of their of their respective
> celebrity conquests on internet posts and mobile phones texts after the
> intimacy they would now see him destroyed for.
>
> Ardin hosted a party in Assange's honour at her flat after the 'crime' and
> tweeted to her followers that she was with the "the world's coolest smartest
> people, it's amazing!"
>
> Ardin has sought unsuccessfully to delete these and thereby destroy evidence
> of Assange's innocence.
>
> She has published on the internet a guide on how to get revenge on cheating
> boyfriends.
>
> Expressen*beforehand, in order to maximise the damage to Assange.
>
> They belong to the same political group, and attended a public lecture given
> by Assange and organised by them.
>
> The exact content of Sophia Wilén's mobile phone texts is not yet known, but
> their bragging and generally positive content about Assange has been
> confirmed by Swedish prosecutors.
>
> The consent of both women to sex with Assange has been confirmed by
> prosecutors.
>
> Niether Wilén's nor Ardin's texts complain of rape.
>
> These facts should make any normal prosecutor gravely concerned about
> whether a false complaint is being made.
>
> But then neither Arden nor Wilén complained to the police. They
> collaboratively 'sought advice', a technique in Sweden enabling citizens to
> avoid being sued for making false complaints.
>
> In any normal first world country, the prosecutor would know that her case
> is not just a deeply-flawed waste of time, but a dangerous perversion of the
> serious objectives of rape laws.
>
> The womens' lawyer Claes Borgström was questioned by the media as to how the
> women themselves could be contradicting the legal characterisation of
> Swedish prosecutors; a crime of non-consent by consent.
>
> Borgström's answer is emblematic of how divorced from reality this matter
> is: "They (the women) are not jurists".
>
> You need a law degree to know whether you have been raped or not in Sweden.
>
> How the Swedish authorities propose to prosecute for victims who neither saw
> themselves as such, nor acted as such is easily answered: You're not a
> Swedish lawyer, so you wouldn't understand anyway.
>
> Make no mistake: it is not Julian Assange that is on trial here, but Sweden
> and its reputation as a modern and model country with rules of law.
>
> *James D. Catlin is a Melbourne Barrister
> who acted for Mr Assange in London during October.*
>
>
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