The inconvenient truth about Assange: He’s a giant sleaze bag

[struggle4progress]

by Lakshmi Chaudhry Aug 23, 2012

... The Obama administration has little interest in risking the bad PR that inevitably follow a very public and contentious extradition — and the Swedish government feels exactly the same. “There would be a storm in the media worldwide stopping any extradition. That would be the best guarantee he would have, together with the formal conditions,” notes former prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem. Having Wikileaks back in the headlines serves no one’s interest except that of Assange ...

In his attempt to evade justice, Assange has smeared a nation with an excellent record of protecting individual rights. Reuters notes: ”Along with other Nordic countries, Sweden sees itself as a legal safe haven and it has welcomed thousands of leftist refugees from dictatorships in Latin America in the 1970s to Iraqis fleeing the US-led invasion and war after 2003. The World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index 2011 report ranked Sweden first of 66 nations on fundamental legal rights.” In comparison, Ecuador — praised by Assange as “a courageous Latin American nation <which> took a stand for justice” —under President Correa has a long and shameful record of squelching press freedoms ...

Lemmee see if I have this: Assange supporters do understand how he could consent to being questioned by the Swedish authorities if he’s in England but not if he’s in Sweden, to go to Sweden if he won’t be extradited to the US but not if he might; but they profess not to understand that a woman could consent to f*** with a condom but not without one?

Swedish legal experts note that 9 out 10 rape charges are usually dropped before they reach the court, and the case against Assange is likely to meet the same fate. “But where there are no witnesses, no pictures and no technical evidence, only the accusation of the woman against the man and he says that sex was consensual, then normally the situation is that the word of the woman will not be enough for a conviction,” Swedish law professor Christian Diesen tells Reuters. So much for the grand CIA-engineered plot to take down Assange ...

http://www.firstpost.com/world/the-inconvenient-truth-about-assange-hes-a-giant-sleaze-bag-427536.html/2

[samsingh]

1. i don't know what's going on here at all

[atreides1]

2. Okay

So what?

[still_one]

3. Does it matter if he is a sleaze if the imformation is true?

[mitchtv]

4. yawn

don't ypu get tired?

[Cleita]

5. Wow, another hit piece on Assange by

the one poster who really hates him. Yes, he is a sleaze bag. Satisfied?

Yet, even sleaze bags, should be protected from the chance they won't get due process of the law if they should be detained by any law enforcement agency.

[chknltl]

6. My first ever trashed thread.

[polly7]

10. I now will trash all these threads and thanks for the idea. nt.

[just1voice]

7. The inconvenient truth about propaganda, it never changes

Same old slander, same old message.

You know who the real sleazebags are, the propagandists.

[SILVER__FOX52]

8. Propaganda bullshit.

His guilt or innocence re: the " rape ", does not change the great journalistic and democratic value of what he did. I don't believe for one second that the US would NOT extradite him from Sweden. Our CIA and related organizations are like Vultures ready to pounce on anybody they feel threatened by.........the Constitution is just toilet paper to them. Our CIA and related Military apparatus has melded into one Organization full of Swine not worthy of a great Country.

[marmar]

9. This is getting PRAVDA-esque.

nt

[struggle4progress]

12. holy toledo! i completely forgot to post the pravda article on how the cia controls assange!

don't go away! i'll be right back with it!

[OnyxCollie]

11. Assange Derangement Syndrome.