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Julian Assange, leader of the WikiLeaks project that’s published extensive secret details of U.S. military and diplomatic activity, has been arrested in London on a Swedish accusation of rape.
“He is accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation, and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement today.
Assange is scheduled to appear at Magistrates Court in the City of Westminster in London later today, the police said. The police’s extradition unit arrested him this morning on a European arrest warrant after Assange and his lawyers arranged to meet with police at a London police station.
#7
The reason why you can’t bring these charges against Fox News is because it was consensual when O’Reilly had the dildo up his ass.
The others are sexless freaks.
I don’t give a damn if it’s right or wrong. When you pick a fight with a guy that outweighs you 50 with a 8 inch longer reach, chances are you’re going to get your ass kicked.
Non-consensual sex is typically rape, isn’t it? Sex without condom when your partner requires it????
#23 Are you some new kind of idiot?
So your partner wants to get on top, and does so “without your consent”. By your definition that’s rape.
Well lets see. We all seem to agree that the guy is being railroaded by various governments many of whom have a personal ax to grind. The rest are being leaned on and perhaps offered bribes.
Freedom of speech and due process seem to be faerie tails. I’m going to miss them.
Who would have thought that many of the leaders of the western nations have the ethics of a Papa Doc? Are any of them worthy of more respect than bleep on a stick?
Fear their power yes. Cross them at your own risk but if one is pulled down, “Good riddance to bad rubbish.”
He turned himself in to keep the CIA from offing him. Simple as that.
He probably won’t live much longer, in any event. Or perhaps he will be the “new Number Six”. until they are done playing with him.
I wish to publicly express my appreciation of his efforts to out the bastards, and being right in their faces is a novel approach. But the evil power structure always wins.
The next step will be massive raids on any and all locations possibly associated with Wikileaks. Many will be arrested and all computers confiscated. But none of this will stop the information from getting out. The truth shall set us free.
Watch closely. See how “they” shut down the money, persuade ISP’s to distance themselves, discredit with trumped up sex charges.
Next time a similar situation starts to bubble up the clamp down will be much quicker. Most of us might not even hear about it. Ignorance is bliss….all that sort of thing.
I’m with bobbo it would be swell to see the alleged victim’s entire statement/accusation posted on wikileaks or better yet a site called takealeakonwikileaks phallus size (bet is small) rape kit evidence ect ect.
lets have his health and finical records too. along with his family and friends yup pin numbers and passwords all of it this man want on secrets
I’m not upset about how he has embarrassed us or even how he has shown the US to be Human Rights hypocrites we had that coming but he has put lives at risk and hampered efforts to quell terrorism.
I’m just wondering has we looked into Australia’s closet? I think he should clean his own closet before worrying about anyone else’s
The more disgusting the leak, the greater the need to hide it from the public.
I prefer the Cheney approach. If you have nothing to hide, why are your worried about it getting out?
This stuff is sounding more like the movie ENEMY OF THE STATE. This lawsuit will backfire bigtime.
“To me the New York Times has committed at least an act of bad citizenship, but whether they have committed a crime is a matter of discussion for the justice department.”
Senator Joe Lieberman on Fox News
The New York Times has been using the WikiLeaks cables and Lieberman thinks they should be investigated under US espionage laws. This is how freedom dies.
Why are we not calling this guy a Terrorist! Is it cuz he is white and not brown?
Tell me, who here has a wiki that doesn’t leak?
The conduct of foreign affairs is a sausage factory. We often like the product but abhor the process. An argument could be made that some entity in the G’vmnt wanted much of this information made public. We see that Iran’s neighbors want the US to take action yet we remain restrained. And Kim Jung Il sees how much nobody cares much about the PRK.
I blame Vivek Kundra for not putting better security and safeguards in place.
On the White House forbidding tweets about the Christmas party.
Jeff Jarvis: “What is this, North Korea?”
#29 – “he has put lives at risk and hampered efforts to quell terrorism”
Will you be supplying any evidence to support this claim, or is it as completely baseless as it appears?
Man should get his day in court like any accused wrongdoer. If nothing else his personal (even if not proved illegal) behaviour should be exposed on wikileaks like that of lots of other fools.
#37
Heres an easy one for you
He compromised the anonymity and confidentiality of Afghan civilians working as U.S. military. These people or their families can now be easily singled out and hunted down.
e? if were Afghan your mom could killed because your uncle is listed as adding the U.S. military.
THATS! irresponsible, sorry I can’t share your optimism that only good will come from his unrestricted release of documents that he hasn’t even read.
If he wants to take on the task of releasing all this stuff fine, great, blow that whistle, heck I will bring extra batteries for his megaphone but he then must take on the responsibility of editing it AND HE IS NOT he is just a Look At Me jerk who could be getting people killed.
Do I have hard evidence no but if I were at war with the US and some one just released a bunch of information that could show me who in the neighborhood was working with the enemy you can bet I’d be all over it. Duh! you don’t have to be Eisenhower to figure that out.
and of course I don’t think his privacy should really be violated, it just sounded like poetic justest.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/08/3088461.htm?section=justin
says it all really