WikiLeaks founder arrested for molestation and rape
 

Let the conspiracy theories begin :upsidedow

Btw, he has been "arrested". CNN is not up to date.

ummmmmmmmmmmm scary

Bollocks. I was just about to post this.

He's fucked now whatever is behind it.

Yep. The smear campaign began on him weeks ago. Suddenly all these anti-wikileaks posts everywhere, saying how he is killing afghan civilians personally with his leaks, etc. Amazing though.

Good. Fuck him. :thumbsup

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA fucking OWNED

Bullshit.

he is getting framed

Yeah its fucking awesome isnt it :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Thats what he gets the piece of anti-American shit

they will kill him at the end, no body cares anymore...

who needs to literally assassinate someone when you can just assassinate their character?

sounds like a set up. haters of freedom will certainly love this news.

He is now turning himself in.

you play with fire, you get burned.. :2 cents:

charges dropped

Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder - Aug 2010
Issued on rape allegations that Assange calls 'without basis'

STOCKHOLM ? Swedish prosecutors on Saturday withdrew an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying a rape allegation it was based on is unfounded. The accusation was labeled a dirty trick by Julian Assange and his group, who are preparing to release a fresh batch of classified U.S. documents from the Afghan war.

Swedish prosecutors had urged Assange ? a nomadic 39-year-old Australian whose whereabouts were unclear ? to turn himself in to police to face questioning in one case involving suspicions of rape and another based on an accusation of molestation. "I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape," chief prosecutor Eva Finne said, in announcing the withdrawal of the warrant. She did not address the status of the molestation case, a less serious charge that would not lead to an arrest warrant.

But Karin Rosander, a spokeswoman for the Swedish Prosecution Authority, told NBC News that the allegation of molestation remains. However, Rosander said that after a new prosecutor looked at the allegations, the arrest warrant was withdrawn because the severity of the case does not require an arrest at this stage.

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:2 cents: Just some more trumped up bullshit in an attempt to squelch free speech.

:1orglaugh

Certainly odd.

very very odd.. is there details on why he is being charged with this? or was?

he's just creeping it real.

it was an American that brought that tape to life. one who must have felt very strongly about something if he knew he was going to be jailed or killed for the action.

maybe what these guys are doing isn't anti-american at all.

there were photos of canadian soldiers posing with body parts, and i found out about this as a teenager. As a canadian, i have a right to know what people are doing in my name.

I heard a news report this morning that the DOJ is preparing to criminally charge him for releasing the secret documents. It may be the beginning of the end for him.

Seriously, fuck you.

Nice try, New World Order...

You sure you have the right to know? People like cambaby seem to prefer status quo and to accept the shit sandwich you're fed.

This stuff isn't anti-US, anti-government or anti-establishment, it is anti-corruption. The people who want things to remain the way they are, are anti-American.

Did you see the end of Lord Of War?

I'm sure it played out something like that. He was in a room, there was a knock on the door by someone who out-ranked everyone there. He was set free.

You simply don't get the type of info he gets without serious inside connections. The boy everyone is blaming is probably a fall guy.

Awesome flick :thumbsup

Great movie.

When they released the last batch of documents they included an encrypted archive that apparently contains highly sensitive information. The idea being is if anything happens to any one of them they will make the password public. The encrypted archive is apparently on 100,000+ computers around the world right now (torrent seeds).

for the " go to quick replay " scrollers
it was a hoax, simple.

Those who believed it need a serious check up :)

strange set of events, warrant then let it go ...

Good film. Topical reference too -

RUSSIAN Viktor Bout, dubbed the "Merchant of Death" and the "Lord of War", yesterday lost his battle to avoid extradition from Thailand to the US.

'Lord of War' to face US justice

Just the gov trying to stop him. Duh, if anyone believes otherwise, you are naive and moronic. Right after he releases those documents, how "CONVENIENT" that something pops up like this in the favor of the u.s. gov... heh.

I heard it was a muslim woman he raped and killed in 1990

That scumbag released the names of thousands of afghan civilians who had cooperated with coalition forces against the Taliban during the war. The Taliban has announced that they are studying the docs and collecting information about "collaborators". Assange is a publicity seeking scumbag who signed the death warrants of lots of innocent people. He deserves a bullet in the back of the head. Even Human Rights Watch has criticized him for releasing the names and information about Afghan civilians.

Amazing how being for freedom is anti-american .... :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Freedom doesnt mean killing American soldiers, suck a dick.

As long as they attend mandated christian events, right? Otherwise fuck 'em, right?

Question: Given the current state of the media, do you think that something as big as the Watergate investigation could happen today?

Carl Bernstein: I think... I think hypothetical questions are very difficult to answer, especially "if" history questions. But do I think that there are news organizations that if they had the same kind of information that Bob Woodward and I had in Watergate would go ahead and print the stories? Absolutely, I do.

I think what is really a bigger question is, how would readers respond? How would the political system respond? The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.

Then you had a great judge, the judiciary worked. The great judge pried some secret information out of the defendants in his courtroom and helped break open the conspiracy based partly his actions on what he had read in our stories. Then you had, even though the prosecution was overwhelmed by its closeness to the Nixon White House and by nefariousness in the Justice Department. You then had a great congressional investigation, the Senate investigation into Watergate. Could you have that today in the partisan atmosphere that exists on Capital Hill? Could you have a real bipartisan investigation that would take the facts wherever they went? I?m not all sure.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution, it?s broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. Perhaps irrevocably, it is... we?re paying a terrible price for its mendacity and its inability to deal with the problems of America. The Congress of the United States, the mediocre quality of so many of its members as well as the ideological divides and many other factors that make the Congress so dysfunctional. You then add in Watergate?a special prosecutor who, when the President of the United States claimed that he had the privilege to withhold his tapes from the investigation, it went to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court decided unanimously that the President was not above the law and that he had to turn over his tapes. And that was with the President of the United States expecting the Chief Justice that he had appointed to support him. Would that happen today?

And then you had a vote by the House Judiciary Committee to impeach the President of the United States, several articles of impeachment. Would that happen today with the same information and the partisan environment? It was Republicans that really held Nixon accountable and said, "Look, he might be a Republican, but he is a criminal President." He has, you know, bent the Constitution, violated his oath of office. Would that happen today in our political system? I?m not at all sure. I?m not nearly as worried about the press as I am about the political system.

Recorded July 22, 2010
Interviewed by David Hirschman

http://bigthink.com/ideas/21729