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Of course, comrade! From the left's point of view everyone is a Nazi, Fascist, Kremlin puppet. /s
But I am absolutely a 'lefty'.
They have a word for that too now. You're apparently a brocialist.
Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
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Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
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He hosted a show on Russia Today; he was literally a mouthpiece of the Kremlin.
Amy Goodman hosts a show on NPR, a U.S. government news station. She is literally a mouthpiece for Trump and the U.S. government.
RT is owned and primarily funded by the Russian government.
NPR receives around 2% of its funding from the US government.
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amended.
The Swedish prosecutor has said that they hoped to get a sample of Assange's DNA during the interview, but since it was carried out by a prosecutor from Ecuador that seems unlikely and I haven't seen anything about them getting it.
What on earth would they need DNA for ?
Assange has already stated that he had sex with both women.
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#334Reading the comments, many people seem unaware that Assange was indeed interviewed by Swedish prosecutors in London [1]. And before that, for years, Assange gave them that offer, but they refused time and time again (until they reluctantly accepted) [2]. As @belorn noted [3], the prosecutors had 3 options, and given it seems like they didn't have enough to make a case or a plan to continue the investigation, it had t…
Plus prison in Sweden is like staying at a Best Western.
"You can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners". F. Dostoyevsky
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
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> Well if you cannot question the accused What do you mean? The Swedish prosecutor has been invited to question Assange for the last 5 years and declined to do so until a few months ago.
Julian was invited back to Sweden and he declined. It's not the job of Swedish authorities to fly all over the world to question people of interest, they would get nothing done.
They were offered video link interrogation, which swedish authorities have done many times before, but Marianne Ny refused.
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#336The hypocrisy is stunning. Chinese or Russian governments harassing whistle blowers and leakers on this scale would be met by a frenzy of hysterical global condemnation by the media, human rights orgs, governments and citizens with their domestic courts systems summarily dismissed and pay a price in global reputation and even sanctions. Yet here we have Snowden and Assange being harassed brazenly for years with littl…
> How have Swedish and UK citizens, [...] helped Snowden or Assange in any meaningful way in all these years? Well, since I believe he's guilty of rape I have no interest in helping him.
So the smear campaign worked then. Good job.
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#337I suppose the ball is now in the US' court . Assange is a strange case, hes (Wikileaks is) really a journalist, and should be protected by laws and conventions protecting journalists. But he doesn't seem to identify too strongly with the press and presents more like a political dissident. I used to live in Melbourne (where wikileaks is sort of based). I stopped to sign a petition in his support. The petition mentione…
> hes (Wikileaks is) really a journalist
He (they) were at some point. Ask anyone that once worked with or volunteered for them back around 2010. They have long since become a wing of Russian intelligence and Assange's personal ego play.
Sad really.
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Reading the comments, many people seem unaware that Assange was indeed interviewed by Swedish prosecutors in London [1]. This is simply not true. The questions was asked by Ecuadorians and had to be approved beforehand. Swedish prosecutors where allowed in the room but could not talk to Assange. IE no follow up questions etc
Do you have any sources for how the interview took place? And any indication that it was unfair? (I'm pretty sure Sweden would have refused to do it if they were unhappy with the process.) I don't know who asked the questions, or what the procedure was, but I read the Swedish prosecutor's statement issued today and they do not mention the London interview being an issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...
>It was established that the interview would be conducted by an Ecuadorian prosecutor, with Isgren and a police officer present.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/14/date-set-quest...
>According to Assange's lawyer, the "shape" of the questions was still being discussed a week before the scheduled interview.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/07/julian-assange...
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
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If Assange truly feared the police blatantly violating Swedish law in support of rendition, then it would seem strange for him to base himself in Sweden, remain in the country whilst being well aware of the investigation under way against him and leave only on the day they notified him they'd received legal authorisation to detain him. And then repeat the whole thing in the UK...
It's also very strange that, if he was really afraid of the US & NATO, he'd flee to the UK . Sweden is not in NATO, and the UK co-founded it. The UK and the US have a long standing "special relationship", with the UK being the main other country involved in invading Iraq. If you're afraid of the US, why you'd go to the UK is beyond me.
It's actually tough to extradite from the UK. Lots of corrupt Indian businessmen go to the UK when they wish to flee our taxmen. And then mock us in the British papers and TV.