(Split) Assange's rape charges

[Cato]

Teh Anons everywhere are angry that their rapist hero is under arrested.

[Peasant]

Rape?


The two Swedish women who have brought sex charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange boasted about their relationship with him days before going to cops.

Based on information available on various websites quoting police and court papers, here's an account of what happened. The story goes back to August this year, when Assange was in Stockholm to speak at the invitation of Sweden's Social Democratic Party.

The event organizer was 31-year-old Anna Ardin, who has been described as a feminist, leftist, social democrat and opponent of abortion. She has worked at the Uppsala University, handling equality issues for the students' union. On Twitter, she has been called a "CIA agent" for "framing" Assange. (The net is abuzz with conspiracy theories on how Assange was framed.)

When Assange arrived in Stockholm, Ardin invited him to stay at her flat while she visited her family for a few days out in the country. Ardin returned home on August 13; she and Assange had sex that night. Both have admitted a condom was used and it broke. On August 20, Ardin would go to police alleging that Assange deliberately broke the condom during sex.

Ardin's co-accuser, 26-year-old Sofia Wilen, an aspiring photographer, had sex with Assange on the evening of August 16 and again the following morning. The first time, a condom was used; the second time, there was no condom. On August 20, Wilen would go to police alleging that Assange had refused to wear a condom.

After both sexual encounters, neither woman seemed to harbour any resentment against Assange. One of Assange's lawyers has been quoted as saying: "The exact content of Wilen's mobile phone texts is not yet known but their bragging and exculpatory character has been confirmed by Swedish prosecutors. Neither Wilen's nor Ardin's texts complain of rape."

On August 14, the day following the night of "crime", Assange delivered a 90-minute speech about how war's first casualty is truth. Ardin was in attendance (as was Wilen) but showed no signs of the previous night's "trauma". At 2 o'clock that night, while hosting a party in Assange's honour at her flat, Ardin tweeted: "Sitting outside; nearly freezing; with the world's coolest people; it's pretty amazing."

After going to police on August 20, she deleted these tweets. After sex with Assange on the morning of August 17, Wilen went out, and bought, then cooked breakfast – oatmeal and juice.

On August 18, Wilen called up Ardin and told her that she had unprotected sex with Assange. She said she was upset he didn't use a condom and was afraid she might have contracted an STD or become pregnant. Ardin said she too had had sex with Assange. On August 20, both women filed charges against him.

And an obscure Swedish law was invoked. It is sometimes called the "surprise sex" law. In essence, it holds that if a woman withdraws her consent at any point during intercourse, and the man continues, it becomes rape. This transition from consensual to non-consensual sex is what Assange is accused of. The penalty is reported to be a fine of $715. But he has been arrested and now denied bail.

All this will have to be proved in the court — a Swedish one.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Sex-accusers-bragged-about-conquest/articleshow/7068149.cms

[Eldritch]

Teh Anons everywhere are angry that their rapist hero is under arrested.

Regardless of what one thinks about Assange and the whole issue in general, let's keep the facts straight: the whole case has already been dismissed once. Now that it's being pursued again the outcome's not in doubt, but he hasn't been convicted yet.

[SwordoftheVistula]

These 'rape' charges against Assange look pretty BS. Maybe he's a dirtbag, but the women didn't were more than happy to participate, until the two women found out about eachother and became angry/jealous. If this is a crime in Sweden, then Sweden may now be considered to have adopted Sharia Law.

[The Ripper]

Sweden is a big NATO-buttkisser as well as an example of PC (feminism, queer theory, "equality", anti-racism, multicultural, etc) gone utterly insane, having crossed the so-called "parody horizon" long ago.

[Debaser11]

^That's ashame. They are a beautiful people who seem to have doomed themselves to extinction with liberal nonsense.

[Eldritch]

From a Finnish perspective it's quite depressing. We've got Russia to the east, to the west we have ...

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However I do not share Condell's and quite a few others fatalism about the country.

[The Ripper]

Its hard not to be fatalistic about Sweden, though. I regularily read Swedish newspapers and various articles and such, and it really is quite depressing. The cultural consensus is firmly entrenched, and the ideological inquisition is very active. :(

[Murphy]

I wouldn't piss off the Anons. Scientologists did it and we all know how that ended.

[Loki]

Maybe those feminist Swedish cunts need to be taught the difference between real and imaginary rape.

[Arne]

It´s not Sweden who´s guilty.
He had an Affair with 2 Females and one was Jealous at the other.
Therefore she felt the need to Accuse him of Rape.
She´s a Hardcore Feminist and wants to punish men if they done something wrong.

[Bloodeagle]

Correct me if I am wrong but don't his rape charges revolve around a broken condom with one woman and having sex with the other as she slept without a condom, then refusing to have a STD test performed? :eek:

Obviously this guy is out of control and needs to be locked up for eternity! :rolleyes: