THE MOST ORGANISED nation on earth saw the beginning of a dirty tricks campaign against Wikileaks at the weekend when Sweden's prosecution authority confirmed to a local newspaper that the website's founder Julian Assange was being investigated by police over allegations of rape and sexual molestation.
In a change from the normally cautious Swedish predisposition, rather than saying no comment to the media's enquiry on Friday, the authority confirmed that Assange was being investigated for sex crimes, breaking its own rules. Its website says, "Normally, the Swedish Prosecution Authority do not publish the names of persons suspected of crime."
On Wikileaks' Twitter page Assange wrote, "The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing."
The allegations against Assange were published first by the Swedish right-wing tabloid Expressen after the investigation was leaked to it. An arrest warrant was issued for Assange on Friday and then withdrawn on Saturday. One wonders what the internationally popular Swedish TV detective Wallander would think of all this, and will the writers use the Assange mystery for story inspiration?
Assange was in Sweden to talk to the Association of Christian Social Democrats, and the Swedish Pirate Party, which is also an ISP, announced that it will host Wikileaks. Perhaps the leak was politically motivated as Sweden's centre right coalition faces an election against the left leaning Christian Social Democratic party in September.
Then again Sweden has over 500 troops in Afghanistan and its government might be worried that it will be implicated in any alleged war crimes that emerge from the remaining Pentagon documents Wikileaks has yet to publish. The Pentagon has been blamed as the source of the sex crime claims but the US Department of Defence has denied that.
Sweden has a history of political assassinations, quite literally. Its prime minister Olof Palme was assasinated in 1986, an act of violence that the locals thought was an inside job. It is the nation that officials from the United Nations like to hold up as an example of perfection for developing countries, and the ruling elite aren't keen on those that upset the apple cart.
The BBC reports that Palme once said, "I know that the Thatchers and the Reagans will be out in a few years. We have to survive till then." Palme didn't, and if the neo-conservative disciples of Thatcher and Reagan have their way, neither will Assange. µ
The evil cia which should be disbanded, most likely found a 13 year old girl who looked 21, gave her breast implants and sicked her on the poor guy.
Palme assasination was never really solved, work of a random madman (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lindh) or other? The prosecutor in the Assange case made a serious error in her judgement, and it's probably the laws, moral panic and governmental extreme feminists fault. Pirate and other liberal bloggers now seem to have given up on conspiracy theories...
Which could be either a long-planned attempt to enhance Wikileaks credibility by showing it as under attack from Them, or, much less likely, it's a personal warning to Assange from Them at headquarters to get *back* into line if straying. Either way, keeps looking like Wikileaks is an intelligence front; may put out some useful info, but the revelations may be only to drive an even worse policy of US invading Pakistan and Iran to commit more war crimes there.
"And you think you're so clever and classless and free,
But you're still f***ing peasants as far as I can see"
"Sweden has a history of political assassinations".
One in 500 years, or something.
More Possible Wikileaks stories. First on Iraqui Pullout.
Reported that 12,500 Us Army troops paracuted into Moscow area to put fire out, most likely pulled from Iraq. On youtube, fellow with crazy clocks that have just about anytime, all differnt & funny monkey Logo, report on 2Aug thoae troops where parachuted directly into Russian fire. Some burned up, estimated that skin reach 220F. Fire did go out.proving again gov't=murder of citizens.
Next will republicians do same for ALL of US. heck yes. Or will democrats raise tax to 70% & give money away to european bankers directly, yes,yes.
heres problem with tax. say economy of $1. built item X for dollar. than builder payed 10% to build, so build x thats90% size, again next builder builds < for x. by know 3 people have what hoped is dollar X & only .81 cents in circulation, so every X is actually worth 30 cents, although owner hopes for dollar back.
then tax steps in & wants 1/3 of each transaction plus value tax. midway thru second x, money simply has been taken by forgein taxing authority, UBS. Or Berlin or whomever. NO Money, sell X for 9 cents, less than cost of mfg, if lucky attrack forgein bankers back,yet FREE is about only known word to banker.
People than get out of bankrupt area. TAX did it, Reverse Multiplier. Really stagering. only solution is gov't spending that gets to locals. NO WAY, ALL going overseas now, straight to hand that bytes US. Hopeless. Whether in US Army or Simple Commoner, Pit is so deep in loss, one wonders why wikileaks can't just go drudge+ in pages. if takes 6 people to aggregate local newspaper, there should be thousands of onLine newspapers for each town. Yet ,there are few. People just don't care, demand to be ignorant of facts & blind to consequences.
theres enough corruption in USA, let alone golly England, this Entire School year crop, put in Journo investigation, including where do ALL Journos go.Just be startng point. About Face, Straight into pit. As Wikileaks founder first Retort, shot upon, proves. Writing Makes Thinqers & Thinqers of Same ability as Forgein Bank Tax enforcers Is About only hope. or todays citizens just give ALL Away.Or bee very,very,POOR=Conscripts,play that bounced off wikileaks this time.
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WTF? What are the "left leaning christian social democratic party"?
It looks like an amateur smear job that went bad.
It would be interesting to find those who circled the fake 'rape' victim for the last few weeks.
The conspiracy theorist are out in full force. My more mundane guess is that some woman tried to extort money from the guy.