regardless of what anyone thinks of Assange, the whole thing has to have been one of the most absurd, avoidable situations I can ever remember.
And the people who come out of it worst are the Swedish authorities, I think.
Bizarre.
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regardless of what anyone thinks of Assange, the whole thing has to have been one of the most absurd, avoidable situations I can ever remember.
And the people who come out of it worst are the Swedish authorities, I think.
Bizarre.
And Assange. If he was innocent why didn't he face the music and win the day? Too much belief in his own conspiracy theories.
Erm, because the Swedes wouldn't agree to guarantee him that they wouldn't extradite him to the US? Of course, the charges were so weak they could have just been dropped. Or they could have sent someone to the UK years ago. Or they could sort out their absurd sexual assault laws in the first place.
There were many relatively easy outcomes, none of which happened as far as I can tell, because of the stupidity or stubbornness of the Swedish authorities.
I suspect it's the fact that the current US administration has indicated that it will no longer seek extradition if he's brought to Sweden that's caused them to give up the charge. Assange was an Obama target, whereas he's been playing nice with Trump. No Obama means no diplomatic pressure.
All in his mind. They would not have extradited him because all they wanted is for him to respond to the accusations as any other potential rapist should.
Yup. State of these poor, emasculated fückers.
http://www.johanbavman.se/swedish-dads/
The most depressing part of the Assange affair was reading about the sexual assault laws in Sweden. As I recall, one of them was effectively 'I agreed to sleep with him and everything I did, I did voluntarily, but in hindsight I wish I hadn't'.
What sort of man would accept that as a definition of sexual assault? Mind boggling.
:nod: This from the race that brought us the Viking. Now look at them. :-(
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Yes, that's the danger in being a "fighting race"; you've actually got to be very good at it otherwise you lose all credibility at home. Then the wife takes charge and she's not interested in whether you won or not; she only cares about spending all the swag on frilly dresses and chocolates and lingerie and court shoes.