To Believe Julian Assange, You Must Believe Israel Shamir, Vicious Anti-Semite and Liar.

[msanthrope]

There are many threads on Julian Assange, and the charges listed in the European Arrest Warrant issued by Sweden. A copy of the charges is given below. At the core of all of these threads, though, is the inescapable conclusion that you either believe the women who have alleged the acts outlined below, or you believe Wikileaks, and their employee's explanation of the supposed CIA plot against Assange.

Who is this employee who was chosen by Assange to present his honeypot defense? Israel Shamir. And who is Israel Shamir? He is the Wikileaks news aggregator for Russia. He used that position to cement his close ties with Putin, by claiming that Pussy Riot was a Western Plot. And he set up a state-sponsored Wikileaks site for the repressive Lukashenko Presidency in Belarus, outing opposition organizations. Al Jazeera details how dissident information was given, and lives threatened.

When he called himself Jeran Jormas he claimed that all the Jews in the WTC got texts on 9/11 telling them to stay home. He's got six different identities and a son who works for Wikileaks Sweden who is just as batshit crazy as he is. Oh---did I mention his views on the Holocaust are so insane that Norman Finkelstein didn't want to be associated with him? Neither do prominent Palestinians.

So the man who called Sweden "the Saudi Arabia of feminism" hired the guy who thought the 2006 Tehran Conference on the Holocaust was so peachy he had to become a speaker. He shared a stage with Horst Mahler.

And you know what tells me? There's a reason Nick Davies cut off Assange as a source and proved, conclusively, that Assange and Shamir lied about the nature of the allegations. And Davies didn't stop there---he eviscerated the lies of Assange and Shamir: "Julian Assange was forced to admit, in interviews with the London Times and with the BBC, that there is no evidence of a honeytrap. That matters very much. The news media don't want to report that -- there's a much better story in the dirty tricks. Some of the most active tweeters and the bloggers have not picked up on it -- they are much too happy with their conspiracy theories. The celebrity disciples like Bianca Jagger don't mention it. They simply move on to insist that there must be another conspiracy at work in the legal process. But the honeytrap story is dead: our story killed it. Whether or not Assange is guilty of a crime is a separate matter: the facts are not yet finally established, the law is not yet finally interpreted. At some point in this coming year, a court will decide that."

So who you gonna believe? The anti-Semite Holocaust denier? The guy he works for who fled prosecution? Or will you believe the women who swore out complaints, and have waited patiently for justice.

I know whose side I'm on. Because even "liberal" men can be sex offenders.

The charges from the EAW....

1.
On 13th – 14th August 2010, in the home of the injured party in Stockholm, Assange, by using violence, forced the injured party to endure his restricting her freedom of movement. The violence consisted in a firm hold of the injured party’s arms and a forceful spreading of her legs whilst lying on top of her and with his body weight preventing her from moving or shifting.
2.
On 13th – 14th August 2010, in the home of the injured party in Stockholm, Assange deliberately molested the injured party by acting in a manner designed to violate her sexual integrity. Assange, who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used, consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her without her knowledge.
3.
On 18th August 2010 or on any of the days before or after that date, in the home of the injured party in Stockholm, Assange deliberately molested the injured party by acting in a manner designed to violate her sexual integrity i.e. lying next to her and pressing his naked, erect penis to her body.
4.
On 17th August 2010, in the home of the injured party in Enkoping, Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep, was in a helpless state.
It is an aggravating circumstance that Assange, who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used, still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party’s sexual integrity.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/20110224-Britain-Ruling-Assange-Extradition-to-Sweden.pdf