Mon Jul 30, 2012, 12:02 AM

Australian TV Program Exposes Julian Assange Frame-up

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/assa-j28.shtml

“Four Corners”, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation current affairs program, this week broadcast what amounted to an exposé of the frame-up of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange on allegations of sexual misconduct in Sweden. Assange remains inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, seeking political asylum from the threat of being removed to Sweden, which would in turn facilitate extradition to the US.

The program provided a valuable service by simply piecing together what happened in the three crucial weeks after Assange arrived in Sweden in mid-August 2010. Assange was there to address a conference and investigate the possibility of hosting WikiLeaks’ operations in a secure computer facility.

By tracing the chronology, the program also clarified the connection between the Swedish witchhunt and the Grand Jury operation underway in the United States to charge Assange with espionage for WikiLeaks’ exposures of US war crimes (see: “Sex, Lies and Julian Assange”).

The program provided substantial evidence that the allegations against him were false and politically motivated. The unproven accusations were used to blacken his name in Sweden and around the world, and counter the widespread public support that he and WikiLeaks had won for courageously exposing the crimes and machinations of the US and other powers.

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Assange has still not been charged with any crime.

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Australian TV Program Exposes Julian Assange Frame-up (Original post)	Manifestor_of_Light	Jul 2012	OP
K&R'd!	snot	Jul 2012	#1
W.O.W.! Highly recommend reading entire story at link. knr nt	chknltl	Jul 2012	#2
Victims deserve equality	struggle4progress	Jul 2012	#3
...From the moment the now 41-year-old Australian was arrested two years ago, fury has been reserved	struggle4progress	Jul 2012	#4
Article does not include a CIA-relative connection with one of the women.	Festivito	Jul 2012	#5

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 12:18 AM

snot (8,041 posts)

1. K&R'd!

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 02:52 AM

chknltl (8,754 posts)

2. W.O.W.! Highly recommend reading entire story at link. knr nt

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 03:20 AM

struggle4progress (71,487 posts)

3. Victims deserve equality

... In reality, the only thing their investigation highlighted was just how pervasive rape myths still are and how the concept of ‘consent’ isn’t as clearly understood as we all hoped. So let’s go through the story and clarify a few things ...

In her statements Ms Wilen makes it clear that throughout the night she had told Assange numerous times that she did not consent to having unprotected sex. The issue here isn’t the absence of a condom but rather the absence of consent ...

Not to mention the second issue - that under Australian law a person who is asleep or unconscious can’t give consent. That means that having sex with someone while they’re asleep is considered a crime in Australia ...

Julian Assange isn’t above the law, any more than the US Government is. That’s why he needs to front up to court in Sweden and face these serious allegations ...

http://www.news.com.au/news/victims-deserve-equality/story-fnepjsb4-1226433977522

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 03:24 AM

struggle4progress (71,487 posts)

4. ...From the moment the now 41-year-old Australian was arrested two years ago, fury has been reserved

for the accusers rather than the accused. According to his admirers, everyone is responsible for Assange's legal woes but him ...

It's not only the usual suspects - woman haters and convicted sex offenders - who have been quick to ridicule the women, with many arguing their complaints do not amount to real rape. Even people who should know better have readily swallowed the line that the case against him is based on nothing more than the unreliable testimony of discarded groupies eagerly seized upon by meddling authorities.

Its an over-reaction. A honey trap. An unjust outcome only brought about by the nonsensical laws governing sexual assault in a foreign country. Or is it? According to police records, one of the alleged victims awoke to find Assange having sex with her - an instance in which the apparently absurd Swedish legislation is mirrored right here in NSW where a person is legally deemed unable to give consent when asleep.

Not all rape cases unfold as directors of crime melodramas would have us believe. Lack of consent isn't confined to sinister perpetrators who inhabit dark alleyways and prey on strangers ...

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/accusers-are-hung-drawn-and-cornered/story-e6frezz0-1226435170663

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 06:58 AM

Festivito (12,283 posts)

5. Article does not include a CIA-relative connection with one of the women.

No mention.

She was meant to be away, but returned on the evening of August 13. That night she had consensual sex with Assange, who continued to stay in the apartment until August 18—five days after the occasion on which the Swedish authorities later alleged Assange had used force against her.

In fact, Ardin several times insisted that Assange stay, rejecting offers from others to have the WikiLeaks’ chief stay with them. On the two nights following the supposed assault, Ardin arranged a crayfish barbecue for Assange and attended a dinner party by his side. During the crayfish party, she had tweeted: “Sitting outdoors at 02:00 and hardly freezing with the world’s coolest, smartest people!

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