One is not innocent until proven guilty. One is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
At least that’s the way it is supposed to be. When it comes to Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange, however, the powers that be are doing everything possible to engender the presumption of guilt.
Joe Lieberman, in an apparent attempt to appear macho, is trying to lead most other congressmen in declaring Assange guilty, saving the costs of a trial. A Fox analyst has called for the “illegal killing” of Assange. He never bothered to differentiate that from legal killing.
It is important to realize that the powers that be are concentrating on the supposed violation of law, the excessive punishments supposedly deserved, the “rape” charges, anything to divert attention from the content and collateral issues involved. It should be made clear that the charges are not for rape.
Remember, there are more than 251,000 documents just from this one source, a lowly army PFC. The last count I had was that a little more than 1,100 documents have been released. Those already made public are said to be not necessarily the most troublesome for the government.
Let’s clear up a couple of matters. Assange is a citizen of Australia. That makes it impossible for him to commit treason against any other country. Our esteemed Attorney General, Eric Holder, says he is looking into charges of espionage. One in that position should have a better grasp of the law. It is the PFC that may have committed espionage. Those documents were given to Wikileaks. Accepting gifts is not a part of the definition of espionage in any of my dictionaries.
So, get him for receipt of stolen goods. The trouble with that is four-fold. The New York Times, The Times (UK), the Guardian, Le Monde, Die Welt and other newspapers also received those very same files. Does Eric seek to charge them as well? Another little problem is that never in our history has the press been charged with that crime. Wikileaks is a journalistic enterprise.
Even Nixon, once he was calmed down, knew not to bring charges against the New York Times for publishing the Pentagon Papers.
The third consideration is where the purported crimes took place. Our leaders frequently think of us as the world’s policeman but that doesn’t sit well with people in other countries, either friend and foe. Can an American law be violated outside our borders? Can such a putative violation be prosecuted? Not legally. If our Department of Justice breaks the law, have they any credibility, any right to prosecute others? Not really.
Finally, did Julian Assange actually, physically receive those files? Did he actually, physically provide them to those newspapers himself? He founded Wikileaks. His primary function now is being spokesman for the organization. Can the Attorney General prove that he was actually, physically involved?
Corporations apparently aren’t waiting for the Supreme Court to authorize more rights that have formerly been the purview of people. MasterCard has assumed the position of prosecutor, judge and jury.
MasterCard has been joined by Visa, PayPal, Amazon and EveryDNS in trying to shut down Wikileaks. The Swiss banking agency has joined in.
Supporters of Wikileaks have mounted DDOS attacks on MasterCard and other corporations. DDOS stands for Distributed Denial of Service. It involves hundreds or thousands of computers simultaneously requesting large amounts of data from a site, overloading it and making it impossible to respond to other attempts to access it. The attacks were not aimed at your normal processing by people using their card to purchase products or services.
Other web sites have been strained. The Facebook page has acquired well over a million friends. Twitter has also been close to reaching its limits. They are merely experiencing heavy traffic and have not been targeted. There is some talk going around that Twitter may become a target. I am uncertain as to why.
Others targeted were the Swiss banking agency, the Swedish prosecutor’s office and the web sites of the attorneys for the two women filing the complaints.
Just what are the charges? Get ready now. The crime is called ‘Sex by Surprise.’ What? Yeah, I know. What is the penalty for this crime? It is a 5,000 kronor fine. Wow! That much? How much is that? It works out to about $715 US dollars. For this the prosecutor called upon Interpol to issue a worldwide “red” bulletin to arrest Assange for questioning.
The Swedes are way ahead of us on the subject of sexual crimes. Perhaps we should look more deeply into this serious offense.
It’s understandable that those people/corporations didn’t wish to wait for the law. Marianne Ny, the Swedish prosecutor, is number three or number four, depending on the source. Two or three other prosecutors have declined to prosecute.
Ms. Ny is described as a militant feminist who continues to try to tilt Swedish law even more against those of the male persuasion.
More than one source has accused Ms. Ny of “making an arse of the Swedish justice system.” I am not familiar with that system. It may use a different standard than do we. I would have to say, however, if they subscribe to the concept of reasonable doubt, it would seem to be present by the fact that other prosecutors dropped the case.
It appears that the complainants went shopping for a friendly prosecutor.
Now we come to the first accuser. Anna Ardin is described as a 31-year old academic. She likewise is described as a radical feminist. She wrote a treatise on how to get revenge on a man. She was also thrown out of Cuba because of connections to the CIA. There’s some things you don’t find on every résumé.
Ms. Ardin admits to consensual sex with Assange. She did become upset that the condom broke.
A few days later she met the second accuser. They compared notes and discovered they each had sex with Julian. How they discovered this is not clear but each had bragged on Twitter about their sexual encounters with him.
The second lady is Sofia Wilen, a 27-year old professional photographer. She attended one of his lectures. She met him afterward and invited him to her place. Sofia is a self-described groupie of Assange.
Assange does not use credit cards, because they allow his movements to be traced. He apparently wasn’t carrying cash. This lady purchased his ticket for the 40-mile train ride to her apartment.
After meeting with Ms. Ardin, she claims the condom she used also broke. I’m beginning to think that may be the ‘surprise.’ Also, I don’t think this can be blamed on the US as we probably don’t manufacture anything anymore. I question how upset she was about the condom as the two of them were seen being cozy the next day.
Update:
Here is a video of Assange’s lecture in Sweden with both of the ladies seen as being in attendance. Further information finds that they are friends.
The second lady, Sofia Wilen, is dressed in pink and appears in the video at the 3:38 mark.
The first lady, Anna Ardin, is seen carrying the microphone up the aisle at the 5:50 mark.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWh1Mk2_GVg#t=03m42s
Now that we’ve seen a number of facts, let’s speculate. That CIA connection stands out. Not every person has such a connection. It does seem convenient for the US government. Assange gets smeared with a “rape” charge for those who get the usual minute, 45 seconds on a typical story on television. He also gets put in custody while those quick minds at the Department of Justice try to come up with a hook for getting their hands on him.
Back to some late facts. This final prosecutor took the case and brought the charges after the involvement of a “senior political person.” The prosecutor apparently is giving that political person greater consideration than the supposed victims. The first lady says that she told the prosecutor she did not want her to pursue any charges.
What’s going on? We don’t know but coincidence is just too farfetched.
I would ask a favor of the readers. Take all of the facts I have given you but replace the countries of the United States and Sweden. Try perhaps, China, Iran, Pakistan. Would Lieberman’s inclination to put Assange under the jail change? Joe would likely declare him an international hero.
A Secret
We learn from these leaked documents that those corporations providing contract warriors in Afghanistan continue to use your taxes to hire child prostitutes. Does that dirty little secret warrant a charge of treason or espionage? It is being kept a secret for one reason. That reason has nothing to do with the security of our country or the safety of our troops.
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