Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Wikileaks Conspiracy | Assange Extradition

British authorities are currently holding the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, while he fights extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning about allegations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. Assange denies any wrongdoing.

His lawyer, Mark Stephens, has heard from Swedish authorities that there has been a “secretly empanelled” grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia. This might be why the UK and Swedish authorities want to keep Assange in jail, long enough for the United States to stitch together some form of charge on which to extradite him to the United States.

Since late last month, Wikileaks has been slowly releasing some 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables. Wikileaks previously released thousands of U.S. military documents on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Actually it is not Julian Assange who is guilty for leaking these documents. He is only the messenger. It is the United States authorities. What sort of national security system do they have when millions of people have access to this information? Bradley manning the private, who leaked these documents to Wikileaks in the first place, was disciplined two times during training for breaches of security. His officers should have been aware that he was not psychologically and motivationally suitable for the work he was doing.

Bradley Manning’s chain of command are guilty, he should never have been given his posting.

The charges Assange is accused of are ridiculous. The women are big girls and they were very willing to go to bed with Assange, even behaving like a stalker in one case. Rape is a serious crime and rapists deserve harsh penalties. Women who falsely accuse men should also be punished, and prosecutors who allow themselves to be political stooges and play roles in political conspiracies should be fired.

But where does that leave Julian Assange? A poll in Time magazine had Assange on the top of the list for most influential person in 2010. Russian Prime Minister Putin suggested he be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Hillary Clinton is probably preparing a kennel for him at Guantanamo Bay.