Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Sex, Lies and Julian Assange Updated

If anyone has doubts or misconceptions about the politicking surrounding Julian Assange, this is the post for you.

Updated with new Video Documentary and below with partial transcript.


Sex, Lies and Julian Assange

By Andrew Fowler and Wayne Harley

Video Documentary Four Corners - ABC Australia

Four Corners reporter Andrew Fowler examines in detail what happened in those crucial weeks while Julian Assange was in Sweden. What was the nature of his relationship with the two women who claim he assaulted them? And what did they tell police that led the authorities to seek his arrest? ICH
Updated full episode of ABC Four Corners "Sex, Lies and Julian Assange".



ANDREW FOWLER: At the heart of the matter is whether the Swedish judicial authorities will treat him fairly. Certainly, events so far provide a disturbing picture of Swedish justice. Using facts agreed between the defence and prosecution and other verified information, we have pieced together what happened during those crucial three weeks in August.

On August 11th, 2010, Assange arrived in Sweden to attend a conference organised by the Swedish Brotherhood – a branch of the Social Democratic Party. He was offered Anna Ardin’s apartment while she was away, but Ardin returned home a day early on Friday the 13th. She invited Assange to stay the night, and they had sex. She would later tell police Assange had violently pinned her down and ignored her requests to use a condom. Assange denies this.

The following day, Assange addressed the conference with Ardin at his side. Later that afternoon Ardin organised the Swedish equivalent of a top-notch barbeque – a Crayfish Party. She posted a Twitter message. “Julian wants to go to a crayfish party. Anyone have a couple of available seats tonight or tomorrow?”

The crayfish party was held that night in a court yard off her apartment. It went on until the early hours of the morning. Ardin tweeted at 2am: “Sitting outdoors at 02:00 and hardly freezing with the world’s coolest, smartest people! It’s amazing!”

A guest at the party would later tell Swedish Police the event was a very hearty evening. When he offered to put Assange up at his apartment, Ardin replied, “He can stay with me.”

In the past 24 hours, Ardin had worked closely with Assange, had sex with him, organised a crayfish party on his behalf – and, according to one witness, turned down alternate accommodation for him. It is during this same period that police will later investigate whether Assange coerced and sexually molested Anna Ardin.

PER E. SAMUELSON: Well, if you send text messages like that, “I’ve just spent some time with the coolest people in the world”, the night after you then say you were raped – I mean you shouldn’t write such text messages if you had been raped by that person the night before.

ANDREW FOWLER: Your client described Julian Assange as a “cool man”. I think, one of the “coolest men in the world” that she’d had in her bed.

CLAES BORGSTROM: I will argue in court....... Read the full thing with opinion at craigmurray.org

41 comments:

Anonymous said...

Video no longer available due to copyright claim by Journeyman Pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=s_JnOv1oItY

"No freedom without equality"
http://bit.ly/NhlpvJ

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.


Anonymous said...

http://bit.ly/O0WRYo

Himself said...

Anon 1 A tip of the hat.

Anon 2 Confused?

Anonymous said...

http://johngossip.blogspot.co.uk/
2012/08/breaking-news.html

Himself said...

Welcome back Chuck, has it been positive for you?

Interesting link thanks, but I don't think it's a new revelation that they are all in bed together.

But it sounds a queer place I must say. Different cultures!

Himself said...

Maren, did you leave the link to the tweet? Comment two.

Anonymous said...

Good evening H, yes I did, sorry forgot to sign. Maren

Anonymous said...

http://bit.ly/OvVvHk

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7
xbjoIYIfI&sns=tw

Google translation comment Gelderwick

Religion will never return to politics Anna Ardin. Are you kidding or what? Which world do you think you live in anyway? And by the way, put down the charges against Assange. Lawsuit can lead that you yourself end up in jail for false accusation of Assange under the Criminal balkans 15 Chapter 7

Anonymous said...

bit.ly/Nk8r0e

Himself said...

bit.ly/Nk8r0e

Ah so!

Himself said...

Lawsuit can lead that you yourself end up in jail for false accusation of Assange under the Criminal balkans 15 Chapter 7

Not when the case is held behind closed doors it won't.

Even from the little we know about it, how on earth could you trust anything connected to the Swedish judicial system?

Himself said...

http://bit.ly/OvVvHk

http://zomcult.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/rape.html

Sensible blog post, and RTd.

Anonymous said...

bit.ly/PETtUw

Himself said...

bit.ly/PETtUw


Following.

Anonymous said...

The bizarre, unhealthy, blinding media contempt for Julian Assange.

https://www.commondreams.org/view/
2012/08/23-5?source=mm586

Anonymous said...

"Sadly the only winners are the real rapists and child pornographers."

from comment Mårtem

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/grupps
ida.aspx?programid=2054&grupp=13199
&artikel=5241034

Himself said...

https://www.commondreams.org/view/
2012/08/23-5?source=mm586

I think Assange can count his media friends on his fingers, sour grapes perchance?

Personally I have no feelings either way, it could be a totally different fellow in the same situation, but my feelings would remain the same.

Himself said...

comment Mårtem

Yes the fellow is right, it all makes a mockery of the real thing.

I don't know how many times I have repeated it, get caught having a pee in some dark alley and you are on the sex offenders list and spend the rest of your life living under a bridge.

USA of course.

Anonymous said...

"We stand stand by Assange," Ecuador's President Correa to RT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDCh--ejWBw

Anonymous said...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/
2012/aug/24/who-is-julian-assange?
CMP=twt_gu

Article: Who is Julian Assange? By the people who know him best.

PERFECT COMMENT:

trappyskillmore

Disregard this article. The idiosyncrasies within the personalities of men who make history (If I may speak so grandly) are irrelevant. Gandhi was an asshole apparently, and I know for a fact Churchill was a moody fuck too. All that matters is that Assange is allowed to go on releasing confidential information about the injustices done on the downtrodden members of the human race by the men who own the boots that are pressing down on their windpipes.

Himself said...

That's the situation in a nutshell.

But for a man that is on the right side of right, (not wing) he sure does attract a lot of personal animosity.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

http://4liberty.org.uk/
currently offline

Anonymous said...

bit.ly/PkR01h

Himself said...

Fancy some Crayfish love? LOL

http://bit.ly/SDwXi6

Didn't it touch the heartstrings.

As for all the rest of it; he said she said, I think I might divorce myself from it all until something happens.

Which could be years.

Does Sofia Wilen remind you of someone, Enid Coleslaw?

Anonymous said...

Mary Charlene
‏@IamEnidColeslaw

the meanest thing anyone said to me was that I look like Mary Todd Lincoln

Himself said...

Oooh! horrid creatures.

Mind you I had to google it, and yes she is, shall I say homely to be kind?

Anonymous said...

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?ref=IE8Activity&from=sv&to=en&a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.expressen.se%2fnyheter%2fkreml-julian-assange-har-ratt-till-skydd%2f

Anonymous said...

political analyst takes break from twitter for a while. bit.ly/T3mlLc

<3

Anonymous said...

Anon 22 August 2012 09:05

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7
xbjoIYIfI&sns=tw

comment Gelderwick removed.

How libertarian.

Anonymous said...

http://www.project-
syndicate.org/commentary/sweden-s-
other-rape-suspects-by-naomi-wolf

Himself said...

Not really surprising is it?

I'm going to run that article by Naomi Wolfe later, the angle from which she approaches the situation, is I think, more telling than just about anything I have read previously.

Anonymous said...

http://bit.ly/RclfvC

Himself said...

Swedish feminist journo.

Nuff said.

Good morning precious.

Anonymous said...

Fancy some Crayfish love? LOL bit.ly/PkR01h

http://bit.ly/SAyZMv
http://bit.ly/PGyIY2

Himself said...

Thank you Maren, we are following one another since this morning.

Anonymous said...

The Bible contains much wisdom? bit.ly/S9Py5B

Hopeless case.

Himself said...

Hopeless indeed.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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