Assange charges are hilarious, says Ecuador

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Assange charges are hilarious, says Ecuador
July 05, 2012

QUITO: Ecuador's foreign minister has said that rape and sexual assault cases lodged in Sweden against Julian Assange are laughable, but no ruling has yet been made on the WikiLeaks founder's asylum application.

"Personally, (I think) this is hilarious," Ecuadoran chief diplomat Ricardo Patino told reporters, explaining that Assange "is charged because his condom broke."

Assange is currently at the Ecuadoran embassy in London, seeking political asylum in the Latin American country.

Ecuadoran officials are examining the allegations of sexual misconduct in their review of Assange's application.
Patino said that one of the alleged victims filed a complaint, because she "realised that on certain nights, the condom broke."








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[The Doctor.]

1. Heh heh heh....

"Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa, who has often been at odds with Washington and offered Assange asylum in 2010, has said that the South American country will take its time considering the application. "

IOW: "We're going to watch the US twist in the wind, bend over backwards, offer us the universe, and then slap them hard in the junk and grant asylum. Maybe afterwards we'll release the 'discrete' diplomatic cables between us and the US..... (wicked giggle)"

[klook]

2. WeeWeeLeaks (n/t)

[Auntie Bush]

3. When the charges first came out they were so flimsy they were thrown out of court.

No charges were filed...but after all those files were downloaded they tried to get him on sexual assault. This whole thing is contrived and is totally political.

[Peace Patriot]

4. I had the same reaction to these charges. I laughed.

It's the most ridiculous "case" for rape that I've ever heard of--the kind of allegations that trivialize real rape and that make a mockery of feminism. Caveat: ...based on the reported details--but the Ecuadoran foreign minister would have the official legal docs--so the initial reporting of those details was likely accurate.

And the next two things that occurred to me, after laughing out loud:

Surely this was a "set-up"--a CIA or other operatives' "dirty trick."

And, this ridiculous allegation gives the corpo-fascist press leave to use the word "rape" in association with Assange's name every time they mention his name, without ever again mentioning the ludicrous "substance" of the charges.

The world of the corpo-fascist media is a perverse, topsy-turvy, "Alice in Wonderland" world (everything upside down, inside out and backwards), in which one liberal cause (feminism) is used against another (free speech, open government) with impunity--and with a straight face, without laughter--because the corpo-fascist media is a reflection of the corpo-fascist powers who rule over us, and they are grim bunch, believe me.

There are many examples of this--for instance, the mind-boggling use of the word "freedom" to privatize education, public services, Social Security, the military and all of government, and to bust labor laws and pay shit wages with no benefits, while banksters, war profiteers and private contractors rip off trillions of dollars of our tax money. "Freedom" for whom? Numerous liberal causes (basic social justice) are treated this way--the "freedom" of the rich to steal everything in sight treated as a "democratic" value, without laughter. I often wondered why reporters in Bush Jr. press conferences didn't laugh out loud. But nobody in that scene--the corridors of power in Washington DC--is capable of honest laughter.

Well, they still have it, in Ecuador!

[bobthedrummer]

5. K&R n/t