Assange apparently has a weakness for women. Advisers have repeatedly warned him about this. He was warned that it was not a good idea to have casual sex while roaming about the world working to promote Wikileaks. The people at Wikileaks are aware as any agency dealing in intelligence knows. Sex traps are easily set up. Even if it is not a trap it can cause trouble. It has.
I will just deal with one of Assange's accusers Anna Arden. In Sweden I could not even reveal her name. So perhaps you are performing an illegal act in reading this if you are Swedish. This is just a warning so I am not charged with seducing Swedish readers into an illicit act.
Anna Ardin , is a feminist academic in her late thirties. She worked as an official with Sweden's Social Democratic Party. She was in regular contact with Mr Assange before his move to Sweden, helping to organise his appearances at lectures as well as agreeing to let him use her flat while he was in Stockholm.
The two met first on August 14th.According to her testimony, which was leaked to the Swedish media, the pair went out for dinner and returned to the flat, where they had sex. At some point a condom broke, a fact that neither side denies. Ardin alleges that it was broken deliberately by Mr Assange.
Mr Assange's first accuser made no immediate attempt to contact the authorities. It was only when she was contacted by the second accuser four days later that the pair decided to go to the police.
Indeed after the alleged rape et al Ardin arranged a "crayfish party" – a traditional Swedish summer get-together – for the following evening in honour of the WikiLeaks founder in her flat. In an entry on the woman's Twitter account, which she later tried to erase, Ardin described her joy at hosting a party for the world's most famous cyber activist. "Sitting outside nearly freezing with the world's coolest people," she wrote. "It's pretty amazing." Ardin was unaware that Assange was already flirting with another Swedish woman the second accuser. Only after this was discovered did Ardin and the other woman go to authorities to make a complaint.
Within 24 hours Sweden's chief prosecutor dismissed the rape charge against Mr Assange, but the following month a separate prosecutor, Marianne Ny, reopened the case, resulting in the European arrest warrant that brought Mr Assange to court yesterday. No information about what was going on was ever conveyed to Assange until late November! He volunteered to answer questions in the UK but Swedish prosecutors would not agree. Obviously they want him in Sweden and locked up.
Ardin is regarded as leftist as well as feminist. She had been actively involved in helping out Assange on his tour. Some have suggested she may be working with the CIA but it has been pointed out that she was supportive of Wikileaks in the past and was helping Assange and was on the left after all. This is all true. However, some claim that this makes Ardin the perfect choice to lay a sex trap. Is there any evidence that she might be involved with U.S. intelligence. There is some but it is hardly conclusive.
Ardin has been to Cuba and while there had ties to US financed anti=-Castro groups. She worked with one group called the Ladies in White a feminist anti-Castro group. The leader of the group is reportedly connected to the CIA. She consequently wrote anti-Castro articles for a Swedish publication. The Ladies in White is partially funded by the US. government and also counts among its supporters Luis Posada Carriles a CIA agent convicted of terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of people. Of course many leftist both in Sweden and the U.S. work in CIA sponsored groups knowingly or unknowingly. They care more about their specific cause than U.S. imperial aims. After all many lefitsts support the Afghan war. I imagine liberal feminists would because they would see the war as liberating Afghan women. The left nowadays often encompasses specific issues with no broader ideology of intending to promote socialism or fight against imperialism. It may very well be that being upset with Assange's behavior she simply decided conveniently that her feminist aims were more important than Wikileaks and the aims of that organisation. She seems to have had no compunction about making things difficult for Wikileaks by laying charges against the icon of the organization.
It is certainly possible that Ardin was involved in some trap to get Assange even in the beginning. Another alternative is that she decided to work for the U.S. cause after she was miffed with Assange. She has written a little compendium of ways to legally get revenge on a boyfriend that cheats on you. Maybe she is just following some of her own advice. Or perhaps it is just that Assange doesn't like to have sex with condoms and this has resulted in a situation where Swedish law is going to land him in big trouble. He may have himself to blame. To paraphrase a Swedish male chauvinist joke: Don't mess with Swedish women unless you have written permission
I will just deal with one of Assange's accusers Anna Arden. In Sweden I could not even reveal her name. So perhaps you are performing an illegal act in reading this if you are Swedish. This is just a warning so I am not charged with seducing Swedish readers into an illicit act.
Anna Ardin , is a feminist academic in her late thirties. She worked as an official with Sweden's Social Democratic Party. She was in regular contact with Mr Assange before his move to Sweden, helping to organise his appearances at lectures as well as agreeing to let him use her flat while he was in Stockholm.
The two met first on August 14th.According to her testimony, which was leaked to the Swedish media, the pair went out for dinner and returned to the flat, where they had sex. At some point a condom broke, a fact that neither side denies. Ardin alleges that it was broken deliberately by Mr Assange.
Mr Assange's first accuser made no immediate attempt to contact the authorities. It was only when she was contacted by the second accuser four days later that the pair decided to go to the police.
Indeed after the alleged rape et al Ardin arranged a "crayfish party" – a traditional Swedish summer get-together – for the following evening in honour of the WikiLeaks founder in her flat. In an entry on the woman's Twitter account, which she later tried to erase, Ardin described her joy at hosting a party for the world's most famous cyber activist. "Sitting outside nearly freezing with the world's coolest people," she wrote. "It's pretty amazing." Ardin was unaware that Assange was already flirting with another Swedish woman the second accuser. Only after this was discovered did Ardin and the other woman go to authorities to make a complaint.
Within 24 hours Sweden's chief prosecutor dismissed the rape charge against Mr Assange, but the following month a separate prosecutor, Marianne Ny, reopened the case, resulting in the European arrest warrant that brought Mr Assange to court yesterday. No information about what was going on was ever conveyed to Assange until late November! He volunteered to answer questions in the UK but Swedish prosecutors would not agree. Obviously they want him in Sweden and locked up.
Ardin is regarded as leftist as well as feminist. She had been actively involved in helping out Assange on his tour. Some have suggested she may be working with the CIA but it has been pointed out that she was supportive of Wikileaks in the past and was helping Assange and was on the left after all. This is all true. However, some claim that this makes Ardin the perfect choice to lay a sex trap. Is there any evidence that she might be involved with U.S. intelligence. There is some but it is hardly conclusive.
Ardin has been to Cuba and while there had ties to US financed anti=-Castro groups. She worked with one group called the Ladies in White a feminist anti-Castro group. The leader of the group is reportedly connected to the CIA. She consequently wrote anti-Castro articles for a Swedish publication. The Ladies in White is partially funded by the US. government and also counts among its supporters Luis Posada Carriles a CIA agent convicted of terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of people. Of course many leftist both in Sweden and the U.S. work in CIA sponsored groups knowingly or unknowingly. They care more about their specific cause than U.S. imperial aims. After all many lefitsts support the Afghan war. I imagine liberal feminists would because they would see the war as liberating Afghan women. The left nowadays often encompasses specific issues with no broader ideology of intending to promote socialism or fight against imperialism. It may very well be that being upset with Assange's behavior she simply decided conveniently that her feminist aims were more important than Wikileaks and the aims of that organisation. She seems to have had no compunction about making things difficult for Wikileaks by laying charges against the icon of the organization.
It is certainly possible that Ardin was involved in some trap to get Assange even in the beginning. Another alternative is that she decided to work for the U.S. cause after she was miffed with Assange. She has written a little compendium of ways to legally get revenge on a boyfriend that cheats on you. Maybe she is just following some of her own advice. Or perhaps it is just that Assange doesn't like to have sex with condoms and this has resulted in a situation where Swedish law is going to land him in big trouble. He may have himself to blame. To paraphrase a Swedish male chauvinist joke: Don't mess with Swedish women unless you have written permission
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