Swedish "rape" charges against Julian Assange are a fabrication

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In August the Swedish government mulled indicting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on rape charges, but ultimately decided against it due to lack of evidence.

Of course, that charge was re-filed recently and Sweden sent out a warrant for his arrest via Interpol for sexually assaulting Sophia Wilen and Anna Ardin in separate incidents. Very few media outlets have looked into the allegations against the 39 year old Australian, and as far as I can tell no American news organization has, instead uncritically reporting them as the reliable propagandists they are. But according to the (Australian) Melbourne Herald Sun, the charges are a complete joke:

APPARENTLY having consensual sex in Sweden without a condom is punishable by a term of imprisonment of a minimum of two years for Rape.

That was the basis for a recent revival of rape allegations against Wikileaks figurehead Julian Assange that is destined to make Sweden and its justice system the laughing stock of the world and dramatically damage its reputation as a model of modernity….

Both [Wilen and Ardin] boasted of their of their respective celebrity conquests on internet posts and mobile phones texts after the intimacy they would now see him destroyed for.

Ardin hosted a party in Assange’s honour at her flat after the ‘crime’ and tweeted to her followers that she was with the “the world's coolest smartest people, it's amazing!”

Ardin has sought unsuccessfully to delete these and thereby destroy evidence of Assange’s innocence She has published on the internet a guide on how to get revenge on cheating boyfriends.

Their sms texts to each other show a plan to contact the Swedish newspaper Expressen before hand in order to maximise the damage to Assange.

They belong to the same political group and attended a public lecture given by Assange and organised by them.

The exact content of Sophia Wilén’s mobile phone texts is not yet known but their bragging and generally positive content about Assange has been confirmed by Swedish prosecutors.

The consent of both women to sex with Assange has been confirmed by prosecutors. Niether [sic] Wilén’s nor Ardin’s texts complain of rape.

So this is what the Swedish authorities, under pressure from the United States government, is basing its charges on. This is standard operating procedure for governments when dealing with a person who so threatens the powers that be. Assange is such a well-known public figure at this point, that it is simply not feasible to assassinate him without provoking an international uproar. Therefore, he must be personally discredited and his reputation must be destroyed. The optimal outcome for the affected governments in this fiasco is that he be arrested and charged with some trumped up accusation and found guilty, thereby silencing him and his organization

The rape charges against Assange are so damn convenient for the American government, that ipso facto we should be suspicious of them.

As for Assange’s accusers, back in September Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett of Counterpunch cobbled together what little information there is about them. There are some potentially interesting angles that may suggest a coordinated effort to take down Assange.

I’m going to be following this story very closely because this is the most blatant example of political persecution to come down the pike in a long time. Julian Assange should be hailed for blowing the cover off government secrecy, not called an “enemy combatant” and threatened with death.

ps: Here is a YouTube video allegedly featuring the two accusers. It is from the seminar in August where Assange allegedly found time to sexually assault both women in separate incidents. Supposedly, Wilen is the one with the ponytail, wearing a pink shirt and glasses at the 3:42 mark, and Ardin is the one carrying the microphone at 5:45.

- Max Canning