Julian Assange and the Inevitable Fall of Leftist Saviors

[Geee]

PJMedia:

A couple of years ago Julian Assange was a superstar, feted by the international anti-American left and pulling the strings of much of the world’s media. Leading liberal newspapers, including the New York Times and Britain’s Guardian, trumpeted every new revelation from his Wikileaks organization. He graced the cover of Time; a Guardian journalist who worked with Assange told him: “You’ll be up there with Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa.” He had, his sycophants proclaimed, done nothing less than change the world.

These days, Assange is holed up in the cluster of rooms that passes for the Ecuadorean embassy in London, living on fast food and trying desperately to avoid extradition to Sweden to face charges of rape and sexual assault. For a noted campaigner for truth and justice, he seems remarkably keen to avoid the truth coming out and to prevent justice being done.

His lawyers claim he is fighting extradition because he fears Sweden would in turn extradite him to the United States to face charges relating to the release by Wikileaks of military communications from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts plus thousands of classified diplomatic cables. Ever eager to stoke the drama — and keen to portray Assange as some feared global revolutionary rather than a fugitive from charges of sexually abusing two women — his supporters claim he could face the death penalty.

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These claims, like almost everything Assange says these days, do not stand up to scrutiny. The Swedish government has indicated that it would be unlikely to send Assange to the U.S. In any case, it would be much easier for the U.S. to have him extradited from Britain, whose courts have in recent years sent a number of suspects to face trial in America, in the face of high-profile campaigns to prevent them from doing so.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

You troll around the Left wing blog and forums and you don't see much mention of sexual assault of women....strange.

So I guess the message is if you want to rape women 1st make sure your left wing bona fides are in order.