They'll get him sooner or later. Car accident, falling out of a window. There's even a verb for it in Italian 'to be suicided'.

didn't take long for john pilger's predictions on a smear campaign to come true. have a look at his recent article.

Just because we would like it to be so, does not make it so.
Back in the 70s a vile man called Gerry Healy had some jolly good comrades in his little Workers revolutionary Party, and liked to bully women into sleeping with him "for the cause". "Capitalist lies!" Shouted the Redgraves and their fellow travellers.
Turns out they were not lies.
What In am advocating is caution.

"The preferred tactic is smear, with corporate journalists ever ready to play their part"
Evidence for this assertion, please.
Pilger is a purveyor of lies, distortions and half-truths so , I guess, he has some inside track.

Any woman can accuse any man of rape. If her story is even slightly plausible, the authorities are oblidged to respond. As the accuser is rarely expected to reveal her identity, it's an incredibly simple and effective method of character assasination.

Any woman can accuse a man of rape.
That's a good one coming from someone who ( I may be wrong) is on the left and a feminist, at least in principle. Tying yourself up in knots.

The Prosecution has apparently cancelled the arrest warrant according to breaking news from AFP.

If I were an investigative journalist, I'd look into Lavely and Singer. They did the same thing for their client, Tig Notaro. If you can't get them to stop telling the truth- accuse them of crimes and let the police take care of them.

The only thing that surprises me is how blunderingly incompetent the security forces are. Day one, Assange humiliates the CIA, day two, the CIA puts out a press release 'we're comming to get you', day three, Assange is accused of rape. Surely they understood that everyone would see through this?

But then, they didn't they realise that only a complete fool would think Saddam Hussein had missiles capible of hitting the UK in 45 minutes (a feat not even Russia can manage)? Didn't they realize that claiming that Dr Kelly slit his wrists, when there was no blood at the scene was stupid? Or when they willfully mistranslated Chirac's comments about the united nations resolution; didn't they realize some people actally can speak french, and could tell that the subtitles where off by a mile?

It's just like tony ben said; the security forces are a bunch of none too bright, inbred public schoolboys (Yale boys in america) with out a clue about the real world, and with no supervision of their activities. Any wonder that they continually blunder?

EdWelthorpe
21 August 2010 at 15:47

"I didn't realise Wikileaks had got into bed with that hideous right wing car boot sale, the Pirate Party. Yuk."

As usual Ed, your comments are so stupid as to actually laugh-out-lould funny. Julian Assange is not right wing or associated with right-wing parties. He is -famously- associated with a the Swedish Social Democrat Party. (That's a leftwing party, fyi coz, i know you know nothing about the world outside your padded cell)

He writes a leftwing column in a leftwing paper.And attends SDP confrences.

As for your bizarre claim that the Pirate Party is a 'hideous right wing car boot sale'...

*sigh* I'll go very slowly for you and explain all the big words:

The Pirate Party is a group of people that try to win elections (they're like contests). Each party has policies (things that it will be alowed to do if it can win the contest) The Pirate Party's central policy is ending intellectual property rights. Property means being able to enjoy things privately, and not letting johnny play. Intellectual is a big word that means, to do with thoughts and ideas.

The 'left wing' refers to people influenced by a man called Karl Marx, he lived a long time ago and had a beard. Karl Marx had many ideas, but the most important idea he had was that 'private property' was unecessary, and 'property rights' where bad things. He also believed that 'intellectual property rights' where meaningless metaphysical abstractions from material reality used to oppress the people. That means that they are lies made up by bad people to steal wealth from everybody else.

Now, when people say that their party believes in not having property rights anymore, then those people are agreeing with Karl Marx, and that means that they are considered to be LeftWing; and being LeftWing means being the opposite of being RightWing.

Offically the Pirate Party is part of the Green's and Free Alliance.

Further to Lou above

BBc: "Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316

William

(Ex-Moderate Youth League's) Rickard Falkvinge's Pirate Party are rightwing "libertarians" with none of the Proudhon-style rejection of private property you seem so keen on! They are IT entrepreneurs, the Oil Men of the digital desert, the next generation of Richard Bransons, who want to right to make money distributing ripped off digital files. They believe that the consumer's right to steal is more important than the worker's right to be paid. They reject that people should be paid for work - something we associate with the Pharaohs or the factories of Birkenau - certainly not with socialism. The free flow of work by creators who permit it takes place anywhere and everywhere on the internet - there is no restraint, if it is mutual. But the Pirate Party believe in the right to steal ALL material even by workers trying to be professional. They want everyone at the IT tier to make money and everyone at the creative tier to starve. How on earth is that of the "left"?

I suspect that because this man has high-powered friends the police are backing down from advancing these women's allegations, and making the case too "sensitive" to take further.

jupb - it doesn't matter where a woman works, or how short her skirt is, a man has no right to rape her. It doesn't matter if her name is Honey H Trap - rape is wrong.

Lol @ EdWelthorpe. Yes, its obviously Assange who has the powerful friends and had been pulling a few strings with the Swedish police.
This couldn't possibly be a very blunt attempt at a smear could it? By someone who'd like to shut him up? Of course not.

Tony

Of course he is unproven, but Caroline Flint and the anti-anonymity warriors don't care. They want every brute, EVEN the ones who didn't do it, to be a disgraced warning to would-bes.

The two women who visited Stockholm City Police are the only ones who can accuse anything, however their case has been mysteriously dropped. Pressure in the "boys network" I suspect. Phonecalls.

It is surely in the publics interest that a full public inquiry into this serious allegation is held by an international independant body, Mr Mansfield QC or his like to chair, if this woman was raped lets catch the culprit, if not why the allegation ...

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apologies to writeoff, thandi and tony et al. who are not so quick to jump to conclusions

If Wikileaks were warned of "Dirty Tricks" which would include sexual "set-ups", surely Julian Assange wouldn't go out and rape 2 women subsequent to the warning?