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The Wikileaker is now in custody in London and, as might be expected, the Left is protesting to demand “justice” on his behalf, which is to say they want him turned loose to perpetrate his sexual will on women barely half his age, which is the charge facing him in Sweden.
As to the nature of those charges, the feminist writer Jill Filipovic engages in much hand-wringing about whether an International Hero of World Peace who breaches a pre-coital agreement to wear a condom has thereby committed rape.
Undertaking to mock Ms. Filipovic on my personal blog, I found myself suspected of being insufficiently anti-rape (for the record, I’m against rape, and would even oppose Julian Assange being raped in prison), when the actual object of my ire was that species of idiocy known as “pro-sex feminism.”
It is evidently the belief of Ms. Filipovic and her colleagues that the pursuit of random hook-ups can be, and therefore should be, perfectly free from hassles or regrets. This is a stupid idea that deserves to be mocked, and often, and by someone who knows how: “The International Society for Running Around With Sharp Sticks cannot also command respect as the International Society for Eye Safety.”
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Ken (Old Texican)| 12.7.10 @ 9:03AM
Question:
Will he stay in jail awaiting extradition?
Two: does Sweden have bail bondsmen?
Sean| 12.7.10 @ 9:11AM
For those that don't know.
If you read the reports, the charges against him are pretty stupid. One woman sleeps with him then throws him a party the next night. She had on her blog writing on how to get legal revenge against men.
The next woman sees him on TV and is determined to meet him. She goes with him to her house they have sex. The next morning they have sex again, but she wants him to wear a condom and he refuses. She consents to sex with him anyway and then goes to breakfast with him. Doesn't seem too upset.
Both women then talk to each other and find out he is having sex with both of them. They then went to the police. What ever your views on him this is obviously not rape, or sexual assault. This is two loose women that have regrets, or want to make a name for themselves.
JFGalt| 12.7.10 @ 1:10PM
This is worthy of an international manhunt - Arrest Warrant through Interpol - Non-Stop News Coverage? This is "Enemy of the State" in action. The law they are going after him on is that he didn't wear a condom NOT underaged rape but that is being played down. He should have been smarter knowing who he was up against. Keep leaking - an America that is run in secret and operates always in secret is not a free society. We are not entitled to secrecy in the govt's eyes then why should they. For the Sake of National Security has been an overplayed hand.
beebop| 12.7.10 @ 3:05PM
"Keep leaking ..."
Not a problem if he's wearing that condom!
Curly Smith| 12.7.10 @ 9:20AM
Shouldn't EU member Switzerland's rejection of Roman Polanski's extradition for rape (but not rape-rape) have precluded the arrest of Assange? Oh, right, Polanski's was an actual crime while Assange's arrest is purely political. Thou shalt not mock the establishment and expose the utter banality of the elite.
Eric Cartman| 12.7.10 @ 9:25AM
Wait, wait, wait, everybody. We must be calm, here. Let's amble over to The View and consult with Obama's Secretary of Rape, Whoopie Goldberg. She can tell us if this was rape-rape or not. I'm so confused . . . .
SolidGround| 12.7.10 @ 11:01AM
Whoopi wouldn't call it rape, especially if the only issue is refusal to wear a condom. After all, she is an expert on unprotected sex and the easy route to side-stepping the consequences.
JP| 12.7.10 @ 10:21AM
This has the CIA and State Dept written all over it. Only a credentialed Ivy Leaguer could have concocted this cover. I imagine the Swedes were given a some kind of trade concessions of something. This indictment even for the Swedes is a bit much.
Too Many Tims| 12.7.10 @ 10:51AM
It was one thing when he was hitting the United States but once the Chinese and Arabs and Russians started getting embarassed you just knew he was done for.
trasparency internationa| 12.12.10 @ 11:30AM
From Indymedia portal:
http://liguria.indymedia.org/node/6679
Arrested the genoese Assange
As the Australian Italian Assange also want him in jail. The spy who stole confidential documents and electronic cable financiers, lawyers, professors, Iranians, social centers will end up in prison.
The trap of the secret services for quite a while will no longer bother. Unless you leave the computer (as Assange). Could intercede for him his friend Putin (including former secret agents, there is always a bit of solidarity).
From Il Secolo XIX newspaper of Genoa today:
Pesto’s Wikileaks, the Genoese Assange ends with arrests
Altana Peter, 45 years old, a former secret service employee, for newspapers and many blogs has become a sort of genoese Julian Assange. And the constant and widespread dissemination of confidential files on the business full-bodied of Genoa (maxi mergers of public companies, studies on the revolutions of the traffic, background information on the work of luminaries of science and especially malfeasance within the bank) keeps close to the figure of at least the suggestion Australian journalist, who made her blush with cable chancelleries over the world.
Doing the right proportions of fame and weight of the mutual scoop, there is another detail in common with a few hours, and is purely judicial. As the creator of Wikileaks, a few days ago, was jailed in London for a crime "disconnected" to the pandemonium of these days (the accusation of rape is to have two Swedish girls forced to have unprotected sex) as well the 007 that targets the Genoese came to a standstill, in this case "home". Proved fatal to the conviction 'final' documents for stolen many years ago. At the same time, Altana, is one of the main suspects for the files that between October and November were circulated through the Indymedia site antagonist, confidential documents against the Carige bank, secret messages inside your local authorities or the scientific director of the Gaslini Hospital, Lorenzo Moretta.
http://www.ilsecoloxix.it/p/ge.....vese.shtml