CNN: Charge Against Wikileaks Founder Dropped

[Hissyspit]

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CNN - 21 August 2010: Swedish prosecutor's office have revoked arrest warrant for Julian Assange.

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1. Sweden is looking like a puppet of the Pentagon's Cheney forces, no?

Not good for their reputation - at all

[drm604]

2. It's certainly hard not to believe that.

I wonder what caused the charges to be dropped?

It seems like the prosecutors must have had what they thought were credible victims and then later decided that they weren't credible. If so, who were these supposed victims? Intelligence operatives? Paid liars? How many women would be willing to come forward as false molestation victims?

Or maybe there really was no one who came forward and the whole thing was fabricated under political pressure. If so, why would the prosecutors think they could convict with no victims or witnesses? They had know it wouldn't stick.

Very strange.

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3. sounds like the 'is it true you beat your wife every other morning?' game - any answer is suspect

say 'no' and it sounds like you might be doing it EVERY morning

[Hissyspit]

4. From Wikipedia and Telegraph UK:

In an interview with the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet, the older of the two women who resides in Stockholm, told that both events started as voluntary sex but later turned into a molestation and rape respectively. She told that they had both given a detailed report of the events to the police, and that she didn't know the other woman nor Assange from before. She also denied that the claims were orchestrated by The Pentagon or any other party, saying that "the responsibility of what happened to me and the other girl lies entirely on one man's skewed view of women and problem to take a 'no' for an answer".


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/7957882/Rape-claim-against-Wikileaks-founder-Julian-Assange-withdrawn.html

"Then, shortly after friends said he was preparing to attend a police station of his own accord, there was a further statement from the prosecutor's office saying that the matter had been dropped."

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"Making false accusations of rape or molestation is a criminal offence punishable by jail in Sweden. Some sources in the Swedish media claimed that the two women did not actually report the case to the police, but that the prosecutor had taken it up anyway."

[MrObama]

6. I'm not sure what you mean...?

Prosecutor's office just doing their jobs. They issued an ''arrest warrant'' because they wanted to talk with him. Then they discovered that the allegations was bogus and the Prosecutor's dropped the case.

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7. What is unbelievable here is the carelessness of destroying someones

reputation. Catapulting lies without a thorough investigation. Was it so important to broadcast this; As in making these charges over U.S. television, specifically CNN, before a thorough investigation. How many Swedish rapes have you heard, catapulted on American television lately.

Secondly, the Americans would not have approached the women involved; That is a blatant and the stupidest of red herrings.
They would have used their ongoing relationship with the prosecutors, where secrecy could be guaranteed.

Which begs the questions of something here, that is not quite right. This story of how this went down; Is not ringing true.

Not buying the crap that they were just doing their job. If that is their job, they are not respectable people nor is their justice system.

Those prosecutors need to fired and big time apologies made to the persons whose reputations have been ruined

I'm betting there was outrage around the world, that made them realize this operation would not work

[MrObama]

5. Prosecutor's office probability discovered evidence that the two women was lying

[Capitalocracy]

8. Sounds to me like they want to bring him in

And who knows where he would go from there...

[JDPriestly]

9. The issuance of the charges may have been a ruse to locate

Assange. This is a way of forcing him to state his location to the authorities.

If anything happens to Julian Assange, we will know just how seriously authoritarian and corrupt the Obama administration is. I hope I am wrong about all this.

I have been ignoring the Wikileaks information, but I don't think that our government should pursue Assange. If you are going to have to be ashamed of what you do, if you are going to have to hide it, don't do it in the first place. Our military would be wise to follow that advice from a very wise, very elderly woman I know.