Assange: Ecuador Bows To Pressure From US, False Accusations, More Leaks - What Next? - TruePublica
By Graham Vanbergen
– In February of this year a United Nations panel decided that Julian
Assange’s three-and-a-half years in the Ecuadorian embassy amounted to
“arbitrary detention”, leading his lawyers to call for the Swedish
extradition request to be dropped immediately. Being good and
compliant members of the United Nations, both Britain and Sweden
simply ignored the ruling.
It’s interesting that the UN saw fit to make this ruling. What do
they know about the Assange rape case, that the rest of us are not privy
to? For a start, Sweden has both the most expansive rape laws, which
extends all the way to marital bed nagging, as well as the highest
number of reported rapes in the western world.
The Observer (sister paper to The Guardian) reported that “Neither
woman ever claimed, initially, that she was “raped” by Mr. Assange—rape
being våldtäkt in Swedish, but both spoke of the sex being unpleasant.
They both concealed their distaste for how it had transpired. In the
case of Ms. Ardin, she kept him as a houseguest for six nights after the
incident, and even threw a crayfish party for him. In the case of Ms.
Wilen, she and Mr. Assange, after a night of sex, joked about the broken
condom, and his promise that if she got pregnant he would move to
Sweden, pay off her student loans, and they “could name the baby
Afghanistan.” She then went out and bought the two of them breakfast
oats and orange juice.”
When Ms. Ardin learned Mr. Assange had also slept with Ms. Wilen, and
when he failed the golden rule of elemental post-coital communications,
they locked arms and went to the police—not to charge him with rape,
but to see if he could be compelled to take an HIV test, on a Saturday,
in Stockholm. The rest of the Observer piece is interesting in many ways
– I recommend you read it.
