Julian Assange’s Arrest And The Broken Condom.07/12/2010
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Julian Assange has been arrested on the grounds of rape.
But that might not be the full story, it makes a good headline and him a less sympathetic individual but that’s not the full story.
It seems that Mr. Assange whilst in Sweden months back had sex when a condom broke. It might be that later on he also had unprotected sex with another woman, all very consensual.
But apparently under Swedish law rape can be defined as “unprotected sex”.
This is despite the fact that the case was originally dropped by the prosecutor.
Back in Auguest 2010 according to Karin Rosander, communications head at Sweden’s prosecutors’ office:
“”The [chief prosecutor] will look into that later. She hasn’t been able to do that, but that’s not enough for being arrested. It’s not a serious enough crime.”
That was back in August 2010 before the release of the quarter million documents, which have embarrassed governments across the globe and made Mr. Assange some rather thin-skinned enemies.
In my view, it seems like a pretext to arrest him and eventually deport him to America, and if he lives then he’ll probably be fitted up under some spurious espionage charge.
We have already seen how American politicians openly called for his assassination, he won’t receive a fair trial in America and at the best is destined for years and years of incarceration, for his political crimes.
His crime? Humiliating politicians, potentates, dictators, mandarins and bureaucrats across the world.
His crime? Shining a light onto their incompetency and misrule.
He should be congratulated not punished.
