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In reply to the discussion: So Let Me Get This Straight !!! - Re: Julian Assange [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)If this was all some elaborate conspiracy for the US to get Assange concerning Wikileaks Sweden would not be needed (the US could far more easily obtain Assange from Britain where he's been languishing for two years now since the incidents in Sweden far more easily than from Sweden seeing as the UK is the closest ally of the US and would have no problem handing him over). If the US wanted him so badly they'd never go through a ridiculous round-about and completely unnecessary and time consuming manner as have Sweden find two women to sleep with him and then make sexual charges against him that are weak to begin with (why the hell not claim violent rape with claims of him holding a knife to their throat and slapping them around if it was all some "honey trap"???), then have to go through Britain to send him to Sweden so that Sweden can then send him to the US... come on. It's ludicrous. WAY beyond ridiculously elaborate, expensive to execute with FAR too many people and documentation involved with lots of courts and lawyers wasting time and money for absolutely no purpose whatsoever. If the US wanted him so badly they just would have asked Britain for him, Britain would quietly hand him over, and no one would know anything about it. The end. There is simply no need to go through all this nonsense just to get him to the US. Period.
What makes a hell of a lot more sense is that while Assange was in Sweden he had sex with two women who made allegations against him, and he fled the country before he could be formally questioned and his DNA taken by Sweden's prosecution knowing that after that he would likely be arrested and jailed. Once the story came to light he then made the ridiculous claim that it was all a ruse by the US, Sweden and Britain to try to get him to the US. And because for no other reason than who he is he is believed regardless or what a stupid claim it is but one he knew would gain him public support from his fans in which he looks a total innocent and couldn't possibly have sexually assaulted or raped anyone... because for his supporters to believe that would sink his reputation endangering his support regarding Wikileaks. Yep, it makes a hell of a lot more sense that his fleeing Sweden and all that has occurred since with the extradition and his jumping bail and seeking asylum in Ecuador is nothing but fear that he may actually have to answer to the allegations of rape in Sweden and may even be found guilty.
Frankly, the more he resists going back to Sweden to be questioned the more guilty of the allegations he appears. He may be a lot of things but stupid in the ways of the world and governments is hardly one of them. He knows very well that if the US really wanted him they'd have a far more easy time having Britain just hand his ass over the moment it was requested of them, and we'd all be speculating here why he disappeared... or forget all about him which is what the press would do. WE know, and HE knows that's exactly how the US operates and how its closest ally, Britain, complies. Throwing Sweden and sexual assault allegations from two women he acknowledges having had sex with into the mix for absolutely no reason, but made him a convenient though logically absurd excuse for why he is so desperately trying to keep from going back to Sweden to answer to the allegations makes the most sense by FAR... don't ya think?
If this was not Assange but some person we a) didn't like, or b) couldn't care less about, this illogical and ridiculous conspiracy theory would be seen as exactly that, and we'd all be laughing hysterically about how totally absurd it is and that the idiot jackass was probably guilty as sin and making this far fetched excuse and going through all this desperation to avoid going back to Sweden to answer to the allegations because he was scared shitless he'd be found guilty and go to jail. And that is a very sad yet predictable of DU fact.