Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    After UN & court findings condemning 6 years of abuses by Sweden against Assange, Sweden finally takes his statement for the first time ever
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 39,305
    That's only because Trump won. Ecuador put a clamp down on his internet access and frankly I hear are sick of him.
    HE has kept himself locked up there. He seems to think he is above the law or the need for due process. Question that remains , did he submit to DNA testing?
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  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    Thanks for giving us a POTUS Trump, jerk.
    You and Russia and the BernieBros screwed us over pretty good!
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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    mickeyrat said:

    That's only because Trump won. Ecuador put a clamp down on his internet access and frankly I hear are sick of him.
    HE has kept himself locked up there. He seems to think he is above the law or the need for due process. Question that remains , did he submit to DNA testing?

    If you had to pick most likely to statutory rape would you choose:
    Assange over Arkansas Bill
    or
    Assange over Trump?

    Keep in mind Julian never ever flew Epstein airlines aka the Lolita Express.
  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    edited November 2016
    mickeyrat said:

    That's only because Trump won. Ecuador put a clamp down on his internet access and frankly I hear are sick of him.
    HE has kept himself locked up there. He seems to think he is above the law or the need for due process. Question that remains , did he submit to DNA testing?

    I would think that any real investigation would first take a statement from the accused before taking DNA, no?
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 39,305
    JC29856 said:

    mickeyrat said:

    That's only because Trump won. Ecuador put a clamp down on his internet access and frankly I hear are sick of him.
    HE has kept himself locked up there. He seems to think he is above the law or the need for due process. Question that remains , did he submit to DNA testing?

    I would think that any real investigation would first take a statement from the accused before taking DNA, no?
    given he fled THEN holed up in a sovereign space makes it kinda hard dontcha think? further the swedes werent the ones asking questions here. a lawyer for the equadoran embassy asked them in their presense.

    theres no connection it happens now, after hillary wont be president is there?

    meanwhile, those women havent seen justice.
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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    mickeyrat said:

    JC29856 said:

    mickeyrat said:

    That's only because Trump won. Ecuador put a clamp down on his internet access and frankly I hear are sick of him.
    HE has kept himself locked up there. He seems to think he is above the law or the need for due process. Question that remains , did he submit to DNA testing?

    I would think that any real investigation would first take a statement from the accused before taking DNA, no?
    given he fled THEN holed up in a sovereign space makes it kinda hard dontcha think? further the swedes werent the ones asking questions here. a lawyer for the equadoran embassy asked them in their presense.f

    theres no connection it happens now, after hillary wont be president is there?

    meanwhile, those women havent seen justice.
    Fled?
    Was in Sweden from August time of allegations to November. If you call fleeing fled hanging around for close to 2 months before it became obvious that the charges were trumped up then you win.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11949341

  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    20 August 2010
    The Swedish Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant for Mr Assange on allegations of rape and molestation.
    Both women reportedly say that what started as consensual sex became non-consensual.
    Wikileaks quotes Mr Assange as saying the accusations are "without basis" and that their appearance "at this moment is deeply disturbing".

  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    The story appears to proceed as follows: Miss A, having invited Assange to speak to a leftwing campaign group in the town of Enkoping, suggested he stay in her flat, although the two had not met. Both agree that they slept together on the night before the event, during which the condom split.

    The following day, the woman attended and helped facilitate the event, at which Miss W was also present. According to her police interview, Miss W accompanied the Australian and some male guests to lunch at which he flirted with her; afterwards the pair went to the cinema, where she told police she had performed oral sex on him. They slept together that night, using a condom, and again the following morning, when both parties appear to agree that a condom was not used, after which Assange left.

    What happened next will be the subject of any legal process, but according to her testimony Miss W, for some reason, got in touch with Miss A (they did not previously know each other); some days later the two went to a Stockholm police station where they said they were "seeking advice" on making a complaint against Assange. Miss A is understood to have told police that he had ripped the condom on purpose, while Miss W said the unprotected sex act had been without her consent. They were reportedly advised by the police officer that these allegations amounted to rape against Miss W and sexual molestation against Miss A.

    The accusations leaked to the press two days later, shortly after which Miss A gave an interview to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. She said: "The responsibility for what happened to me and the other girl lies with a man who had attitude problems with women."
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,932
    So he only has emails from Clinton but none of Trump or Pence , how about Bannon surely there must be some real juicy shit spewing from this dirt bag no ?
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  • pjalive21pjalive21 St. Louis, MO Posts: 2,818
    Where were all these anti-Assange people when he was exposing the Bush administration...this place is hilariously hypocritical

  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576

    So he only has emails from Clinton but none of Trump or Pence , how about Bannon surely there must be some real juicy shit spewing from this dirt bag no ?

    He can only release what Russia gives him!
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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617

    So he only has emails from Clinton but none of Trump or Pence , how about Bannon surely there must be some real juicy shit spewing from this dirt bag no ?

    If you have anything on trump or any other information that is of public interest please visit wikileaks and submit it anonymously.
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,932
    JC29856 said:

    So he only has emails from Clinton but none of Trump or Pence , how about Bannon surely there must be some real juicy shit spewing from this dirt bag no ?

    If you have anything on trump or any other information that is of public interest please visit wikileaks and submit it anonymously.
    So the Clinton emails were exposed by regular citizens like myself ?
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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617

    JC29856 said:

    So he only has emails from Clinton but none of Trump or Pence , how about Bannon surely there must be some real juicy shit spewing from this dirt bag no ?

    If you have anything on trump or any other information that is of public interest please visit wikileaks and submit it anonymously.
    So the Clinton emails were exposed by regular citizens like myself ?
    Not sure, that's the beauty of submitting anonymously. Are you a self admitted normee?
  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    JULIAN ASSANGE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN FOR OVER A MONTH. WHERE IS ASSANGE?

    Here is a brief timeline of events:

    Apr 16th: John Jones QC, Assange's U.N. Lawyer dies jumping in front of a train.

    May 11th: Michael Ratner, WikiLeaks' chief counsel, dies of cancer.

    Jul 10th: Seth Rich, DNC staffer who supposedly leaked DNC documents to Wikileaks, is shot in the back and dies. Nothing is stolen from his body.

    Aug 5th: Edward Snowden (source of leaks on surveillance by the NSA) tweets 64 bit code (potential dead man's switch),

    Aug 10th: Wikileaks offers $20k reward for information on murder of Seth Rich.

    Oct 7th: Podestamails leaks first batch.

    Oct 14th: John Podesta tweets "I bet the lobster risotto is better than the food at the Ecuadorian Embassy”.

    Oct 16th/17th: John Kerry visits the UK, personally pressures Equador to stop Assange from publishing documents about Clinton.

    Oct 16th: Wikileaks tweets SHA-256 prerelease keys.

    Oct 18th: Equadorian Embassy cuts off Assange's internet access.

    Oct 18th: Pamela Anderson visits Assange and brings him a vegan sandwich.

    Oct 18th: Witnesses photograph and report heavily armed police and vans outside Equadorian Embassy, are barred from approaching and have cellphones confiscated. Live feeds are cut off.

    Oct 18th: Some report Assange will be arrested in a matter of hours.

    Oct 18th: https://file.wikileaks.org/file made publicly visible, file dates/timestamps changed to 1984 (Orwell reference).

    Oct 18th: London Airport evacuated due to "chemical attack", potentially used as cover to fly Assange out of country.

    Oct 20th: /r/wikileaks, /r/dncleaks, /r/wikileakstaskforce and /r/nsaleaks add 21 new moderators and remove previous mods, all threads about Assange going missing deleted since.

    Oct 20th/21st: Wikileaks tweets 5 tweets with misspelled words. The incorrect letters spell "HELP HIM". The Wikileaks twitter has never made a spelling error, let alone 5 in two days.

    Oct 21st: Massive DDoS attack on US internet. Wikileaks tweets to imply the attack originates from its supporters, asking them to stop, no evidence supports claim.

    Oct 22nd: Gavin MacFadyen (mentor to Assange and key player in Wikileaks) dies of lung cancer.

    Oct 23rd: Wikileaks Tweets poll asking how best to prove Assange is alive (he still hasn't appeared on video or at the window since).

    Oct 24th: Wikileaks Tweets video of Assange and Michael Moore recorded in June.

    Oct 26th: 4chan users successfully successfully decode their first message in Wikileak's blockchain. Threads are instantly flooded by shills saying that it's not worth looking into. The blockchain is blocked with fees and 43000 unconfirmed transactions appear in the mempool.

    Nov 6th: Huge DDoS takes down Wikileaks for first time in years.

    Nov 7th: Various entities notice hundreds of Podesta and DNC emails are missing from recent leaks, accessed with direct entry.

    Nov 8th: Trump wins.

    Nov 12th: Assange allegedly meets with Swedish prosecutor regarding rape allegations, lawyers barred from attending, meeting conducted via an Equadorian ambassador (not face to face)

    Nov 14th: Wikileaks releases insurance files, SHA-256 hashes do not match those tweeted in October.
  • Who fucking cares?
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 39,305
    Just heard some phone thing he did. AND he was deposed or rather questioned by Embassy attorney in the the presence of the Swedes. So he HAS been seen.
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  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,845
    I blame the vegan sandwich.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617

    I blame the vegan sandwich.

    I don't rule anything out...maybe he was severely b backed up and had up sucCUM to Pamela. In that case could be a number of VDs!
  • CM189191CM189191 Posts: 6,927
    @JC29856 I breathlessly await your daily spin on the WikiLeaks released U.S. diplomatic cables from the year 1979
  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    CM189191 said:

    @JC29856 I breathlessly await your daily spin on the WikiLeaks released U.S. diplomatic cables from the year 1979

    No time for it, I'm fully enGROSSED in pizzagate.
  • Anybody seen 'ol Julian boy of late? Anyone? I bet Dominoes knows.
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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    http://thefreethoughtproject.com/assange-sms-records-framed-police/

    Her behaviour towards me on the night in question and in the morning made it clear that she actively and enthusiastically wanted me to have sex with her. This is also shown by text messages “SW” sent to her friends during the course of the evening I was at her home and during that week, which the Swedish police collected from her phone. Although the prosecutor has fought for years to prevent me, the public and the courts from seeing them, my lawyers were permitted to see them at the police station and were able to note down a number of them, including:
    On 14 August 2010 “SW” sent the following text to a friend: I want him. I want him. Followed by several more of similar content (all referring to me) in the lead-up to the events in question (13:05);
    On 17 August “SW” wrote that we had long foreplay, but nothing happened (01:14); then it got better (05:15);
    On 17 August, after all sex had occurred, “SW” wrote to a friend that it ”turned out all right” other than STD/pregnancy risk (10:29);
    On 20 August “SW”, while at the police station, wrote that she “did not want to put any charges on Julian Assange” but that “the police were keen on getting their hands on him” (14:26); and that she was “chocked (sic shocked) when they arrested him” because she “only wanted him to take a test” (17:06);
    On 21 August “SW” wrote that she “did not want to accuse” Julian Assange “for anything”, (07:27); and that it was the “police who made up the charges (sic)” (22:25);
    On 23 August “AA” (the other woman whose case was dropped in August 2015) wrote to “SW” that it was important that she went public with her story so that they could form public opinion for their case (06:43);
    On 23 August “SW” wrote that it was the police, not herself, who started the whole thing (16:02);
    On 26 August “AA” wrote to “SW” that they ought to sell their stories for money to a newspaper (13:38);
    On 28 August “AA” wrote that they had a contact on the biggest Swedish tabloid (12:53); and “SW” wrote that their lawyer negotiated with the tabloid (15:59);

    Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/assange-sms-records-framed-police/#lPDyAm2U1dKeCXvU.99
  • So why doesn't he lawyer up and face the charges? What makes him special to defend himself in the media? Such a slam dunk for him no?
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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617

    So why doesn't he lawyer up and face the charges? What makes him special to defend himself in the media? Such a slam dunk for him no?

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  • I wonder if the Chilean embassy will serve ol' Julian Astrange any figgy pudding on Christmas? Puddin pops maybe?
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  • JC29856JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    WikiLeaks published documents on Hillary Clinton and the US Democrats. How do you reply to those who accuse you of having helped to elect Mr. Trump?
    "What is the allegation here exactly? We published what the Democratic National Committee, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, and Hillary Clinton herself were saying about their own campaign, which the American people read and were very interested to read, and assessed the elements and characters, and then they made a decision. That decision was based on Hillary Clinton's own words, her campaign manager's own words. That's democracy".

    Do you agree with those who say that it was a hit job, because you hit Hillary Clinton when she was most vulnerable, during the final weeks of her campaign?
    "No, we have been publishing about Hillary Clinton for many years, because of her position as Secretary of State. We have been publishing her cables since 2010 and her emails also. We are domain experts on Clinton and her post 2008 role in government. This is why it is natural for sources who have information on Hillary Clinton to come to us. They know we will understand its significance".

    So Clinton is gone, has WikiLeaks won?
    "We were pleased to see how much of the American public interacted with the material we published. That interaction was on both sides of politics, including those to the left of Hillary Clinton those who supported Bernie Sanders, who were able to see the structure of power within the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and how the Clintons had placed Debbie Wasserman Schultz to head up the DNC and as a result the DNC had tilted the scales of the process against Bernie Sanders".

    What about Donald Trump? What is going to happen?
    "If the question is how I personally feel about the situation, I am mixed: Hillary Clinton and the network around her imprisoned one of our alleged sources for 35 years, Chelsea Manning, tortured her according to the United Nations, in order to implicate me personally. According to our publications Hillary Clinton was the chief proponent and the architect of the war against Libya. It is clear that she pursued this war as a staging effort for her Presidential bid. It wasn't even a war for an ideological purpose. This war ended up producing the refugee crisis in Europe, changing the political colour of Europe, killing more than 40,000 people within a year in Libya, while the arms from Libya went to Mali and other places, boosting or causing civil wars, including the Syrian catastrophe. If someone and their network behave like that, then there are consequences. Internal and external opponents are generated. Now there is a separate question on what Donald Trump means".

    What do you think he means?
    "Hillary Clinton's election would have been a consolidation of power in the existing ruling class of the United States. Donald Trump is not a DC insider, he is part of the wealthy ruling elite of the United States, and he is gathering around him a spectrum of other rich people and several idiosyncratic personalities. They do not by themselves form an existing structure, so it is a weak structure which is displacing and destabilising the pre-existing central power network within DC. It is a new patronage structure which will evolve rapidly, but at the moment its looseness means there are opportunities for change in the United States: change for the worse and change for the better".
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