Giday Killarney

Julian has now reduced himself to an oddity - a guest on the nose who has overstayed his welcome. Julian can thank his lucky stars that the UK respects the diplomatic rights of Julian's tired host - the Ecuadorian Embassy.

No need to suspect power games or conspiracy. Julian realises that by creating an organisation to entice people to leak Western secrets, he has broken the laws of several Western countries.

He knows why the US wants to bring him to trial. His worldwide legal team have advised him in detail.

Julian has left those who trusted him out to dry. Chelsea Manning went to prison in Fort Leavenworth for responding to Julian's leak organisation.

Chelsea didn't get "death" but is stuck in a serious gaol.

Meanwhile Julian is safe, under self-imposed mansion arrest, in the most expensive part of London.

Poor Julian.

Regards

Rhrosty (Pete)

I'm as much committed as the next feminist to bringing all rapists to justice. That is why I have read extensively about the women involved and what their statements comprised.

As far as I can tell from what I have read, the women approached the police to formally request that they contact Assange (who, I believe, was still in Sweden) and demand that he take an STD test. According to their statements, he coerced one of them to have sex without a condom, and on another occasion, had unprotected sex with the other woman when she was not yet fully awake.

In any country other than Sweden (to my knowledge), neither of these actions constitute legal rape. (However, they are definitely sleazy, irresponsible, sexist and reprehensible.) There may well have been an element of 'a woman scorned' in the women's motives, and with good reason, as he appears to have treated them shabbily.

Once the women realised that they had become pawns in a political witchhunt, one of them tried to withdraw her statement but was threatened into continuing (shades of Monica Lewinsky, who was similarly threatened).

I do not profess to be an expert on this case, but I do believe it's very naïve to assume that it's purely about bringing a 'rapist' to justice.

Dear Killarney

Julian, his legal team and the US Government all recognise the main legal situation Julian has worked towards. Its pretty well recognised by those who follow the legal system.

No need to suspect power games or conspiracy. Julian realises that by creating an organisation to entice people to leak Western secrets, he has broken the laws of several Western countries.

He knows why the US wants to bring him to trial. His worldwide legal team have advised him in detail. When one of his team visits Australia she confirms it in the press because its the main issue.

Julian has left those who trusted him out to dry. Chelsea Manning went to prison in Fort Leavenworth for responding to Julian's leak processing organisation.

Chelsea didn't get "death" but is stuck in a serious gaol.

Meanwhile Julian is safe, under self-imposed mansion arrest, in the most expensive part of London.

Poor Julian.

Regards

Pete

Yes, whistle-blowers too have weaknesses.

Mordechai Vaanunu, who disclosed Israel's nuclear capabilities, was also trapped by his weakness for women. At the time he was an Australian permanent resident. He followed a female agent from London to Rome where he was drugged and abducted to Israel, initially for 18 years imprisonment, but even after serving his term he is still locked there and cannot leave Israel.

If we are going to wait only for saints to save us from the world's regimes, then we are going to wait for a very very long time.

Yes Yutushu, it was all the fault of those Jezebel women.

And if only Sweden could have taken a leaf out of Mossad's book, and just reached in and taken him, he would have no choice than to face the charges, which are law in the country where the alleged offences occurred.

And the fact that one or even both these women may not have wanted to have the light of publicity shining on them, is just so understandable Killarney!

And equally the position of the Authorities, who know each time a perp is able to escape justice/create precedents, the easier it becomes for others to offend and escape truly deserved justice.

What was Assange really running away from, the easily defended rape charges, or the compulsory STD test?

And if that test should prove positive, what then?

A serious upgrade in the seriousness of the charges, which could include culpable homicide if he was a carrier of a lethal STD, and managed as unlikely as that could be, to infect one or both of the Ladies!

To reiterate, did he do a runner because he knew he was infected, and how much more serious the case against him would then be?

If the rape case was so inconsequential, as Killarney contends, he may have escaped with little more than a judicial slap on the wrist?

What sent this man running to Britain and then when found he may have to return to his FORMERLY beloved Sweden, scurrying like a rat for a bolt hole! And in good company!

Perhaps the interview could include some STD tests, which can now be done in just minutes and with a simple pin prick!

Or failing that, from saliva collected from one of his chain smoked cigarettes?

One can only applaud the Swedes for finally releasing the case notes and the indisputable facts!

Which exposes an arrogant Assange, and one very different from the champion of justice he presents as a facade to the world!?

I mean, there was a time when millions loved Mr Hitler!
Rhrosty.

ASSange- Arrogant traitor, arrogant sexual disdain for transmitting
sexual disease to other humans, by not wearing a condom.

See the pattern here.

He finds himself stateless for his arrogance. And rightly so.