I'm not sure, but I don't think we have a subject about this.
Kiss me, I'm Swedish!
I guess everybody knows the essentials behind Wikileaks and its founder and figurehead Julian Assange.
Before getting into trouble with the Swedish legal system, Assange applauded Sweden for the Swedish traditions and laws concerning legal protection of whistleblowers and other news sources, the strong position of the Fourth Estate and freedom of speech in Sweden and so on. During a visit in Stockholm, Sweden, Assange spent time with two different women, who since then have accused Assange of rape and/or sexual assault. You all probably already know about this.
Guilty or not, I don't know - time will tell (or not).
What's really interesting though is to see the former opponents in the matter of "Wikileaks - good or bad?" to all of a sudden join forces against the new enemy: Sweden - "the Saudi Arabia of feminism". Fox News agitators as well as John Pilger, Michael Moore and Naomi Wolf are in touching agreement - holding someone down and forcing her to have sex without a condom against her will is not rape, nor sexual assault.
In Sweden this is naturally a big story. But here the focus is mainly on who's the most trustworthy; Assange or the women, and, will Assange be tried by a Swedish court? Here, it is also fully possible to dislike Assange, the individual, and at the same time approve of Wikileaks for what they have accomplished. The problem of these anglo-american, left wing celebrities seem to be that they can't separate Wikileaks as an organization from Julian Assange as an individual, or draw the line between the job as an investigative journalist and the role as Julian Assange's personal friend.
The other problem these left wing celebrities are having, and which they seem to have in common with right wing agitators on Fox News, is that they have absolutely no interest in finding out the facts in the case or how the Swedish legal system works. Instead they throw out absurdities like the defendant women being infiltrating marxists (if you're right wing), CIA-agents (if you're left wing) and, generally, moaning, flip-flopping bimbos who "should have known better".
The ranting stories of these people include inaccuracies as lawyer Claes Borgström being "a prominent figure within the powerful Social Democratic Party". Borgström is a Social Democrat but has never, to my knowledge, worked as an elected representative or worked politically on a higher level. The Social Democratic party has a long tradition in Sweden, but is actually weaker than ever. At the same time, the governing "conservative" party, The Moderates, are supposed to be sitting in the lap of the American government and the CIA. And the Swedish legal system, everyone agrees on, is "infested with feminist radicalism".
It would be interesting to hear from you guys. What are your thoughts about this, if you have any? Have you heard about this story?
Kiss me, I'm Swedish!
I guess everybody knows the essentials behind Wikileaks and its founder and figurehead Julian Assange.
Before getting into trouble with the Swedish legal system, Assange applauded Sweden for the Swedish traditions and laws concerning legal protection of whistleblowers and other news sources, the strong position of the Fourth Estate and freedom of speech in Sweden and so on. During a visit in Stockholm, Sweden, Assange spent time with two different women, who since then have accused Assange of rape and/or sexual assault. You all probably already know about this.
Guilty or not, I don't know - time will tell (or not).
What's really interesting though is to see the former opponents in the matter of "Wikileaks - good or bad?" to all of a sudden join forces against the new enemy: Sweden - "the Saudi Arabia of feminism". Fox News agitators as well as John Pilger, Michael Moore and Naomi Wolf are in touching agreement - holding someone down and forcing her to have sex without a condom against her will is not rape, nor sexual assault.
In Sweden this is naturally a big story. But here the focus is mainly on who's the most trustworthy; Assange or the women, and, will Assange be tried by a Swedish court? Here, it is also fully possible to dislike Assange, the individual, and at the same time approve of Wikileaks for what they have accomplished. The problem of these anglo-american, left wing celebrities seem to be that they can't separate Wikileaks as an organization from Julian Assange as an individual, or draw the line between the job as an investigative journalist and the role as Julian Assange's personal friend.
The other problem these left wing celebrities are having, and which they seem to have in common with right wing agitators on Fox News, is that they have absolutely no interest in finding out the facts in the case or how the Swedish legal system works. Instead they throw out absurdities like the defendant women being infiltrating marxists (if you're right wing), CIA-agents (if you're left wing) and, generally, moaning, flip-flopping bimbos who "should have known better".
The ranting stories of these people include inaccuracies as lawyer Claes Borgström being "a prominent figure within the powerful Social Democratic Party". Borgström is a Social Democrat but has never, to my knowledge, worked as an elected representative or worked politically on a higher level. The Social Democratic party has a long tradition in Sweden, but is actually weaker than ever. At the same time, the governing "conservative" party, The Moderates, are supposed to be sitting in the lap of the American government and the CIA. And the Swedish legal system, everyone agrees on, is "infested with feminist radicalism".
It would be interesting to hear from you guys. What are your thoughts about this, if you have any? Have you heard about this story?
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.