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Who is Julian Assange?
That is a question, many we are assured, would like to know the answer to. Yet it still eludes me; who, exactly, is Julian Assange? Is he the poster boy for freedom, for open government, is he merely the 'messenger'. No, or as David Penberthy of Punch argues; the more we see of Mr Assange the less impressive figure he becomes.
What vexes me most, is it seems that Assange and his left-wing, anti-American crusaders do not understand the concept of innocent until proven guilty. If Assange and his lawyers are so confident in his innocence, if they are so confident that the weak sexual assualt charges will amount to nothing, if he is so confident that he will breeze by the Swedish prosecutors, then what I ask, does he have to lose? He will prove his inncocence and thus be a free man. However, the obstinate, left-wing, anti-American crusaders argue: But he may be extradited to the United States to be charged with Treason and may recieve life in prison or the death penalty. Now, if you are an American reading this, I'm sure you have to some extent become acquainted with your justice system, broken it may be, it is not that of North Korea or Russia. Therefore, I think it is safe to assume that if Mr Assange is extradited to the United States, even after the denial of such endevours, he will not be, either, executed on arrival as many so fear, nor will he be judged in some Soviet style show trial. Instead, what will prevail is an impartial interpretation of objective criteria by panel of jurors randomly selected from the public. And again, if Mr Assange is the moral exempler, if he is innocent in his doings, then he will prove himself in the court of law.
But what if he is found guilty in a US court, you may argue. Then again, Mr Assange has nothing to lose; if he is extradited to the United States; and say, sentenced to life imprisonment, his left-wing crusadors would march through the streets of Washignton, protesting and rioting for his release. But Assange must be haste in such an act because the tide is retreating and the paradigm is shifting, the moderates and contextuals (like myself) are beginning to question and soon will the hard the left, they too will retreat. In such a case, Assange will have no moral, nor material support.
What also sickens me with Mr Assange's case is the fact that he seeks refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy; such an act arouses the common sense of the people to hold to investigation his moral intentions. His ventures into the political sphere have revealed to us, his audience, that he is no man but of sordid contradiction, of vile manners and of a sad inability to conprehend matters which are key. And Ecuador you say; a nation where free press is not dilipidated, but nonexistent; a nation where homosexuals are detained, raped and tortured to be made straight. And Mr Assange, the exempler of free speech, open governments, the poster boy of freedom seeks his refuge in the embassy of this nation. This is an outrage, it is a scandal, shame on you Mr Assange.
And shame on him, for he endevours to bypass, not only International law, but Swedish law. He endevours to dismantle his only lifeline...the rule of law; and again another of his sordid contradictions. And so he, Mr Assange, hides in the Ecuadorian embassy, only to appear with a tirade of accusations from a balcony window. A sad man, I say. Reminiscent of the ramblings of a paranoid dictator.
This leaves us with the question; who is Julian Assange? Well, the answer is clear. Julian Assange is nothing, the more we hear of him the more we wish we had not. It seems quite obvious that rather than been the innocent 'messenger', Assange is hiding a dark secret and I have reason to believe that it concerns the Swedish sexual assualt charges; so, Assange may be something, he may be a rapist. And so,from the words of Leon Trotsky himself, I say to Julian Assange: "Go where you belong from now ono into the dustbin of history!"
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And just a question, how much do you know about the sexual assault case. They wanted to question him (innocent till proven guilty?) deception can work both ways.
It's just a little suspicious, sexual assault charges to drag his name through the mud and make him lose some credibility and support. I will stop before I go into the realm of conspiracy theorist but it just seems you've made up your mind already when it's very difficult to know the full story.
You said, ''would you want to take that chance"; well, that was what I use to argue, but, again you have to acknowledge, that he like everyone else, is innocent until proven guilty. And if he think the sexual assault charges are weak, then he should be confident in his innocence and be willingly extradited. Instead, he decides to obstruct the rule of law.
And what should he worry about chancing life imprisonment; does this mean that every man charged with a crime (and do remember that Mr Assange has been charged with a crime, he's not just wanted for questioning) has right to argue: 'oh, but I might be imprisoned', most people ought to think that delusional and it certainly is.
And his granted asylum status is another woeful doing. Does this mean that any man charged with a crime has right to simply run to the nearest embassy and ask for refuge. And yes, it's within his right, and yes, the Ecuadorian officials have granted him asylum, which means he can seek refuge within the building for as long as needed (it's happened before), but doesn't this contradict the notions he fights for.
Now, the central issue is that the United States government may extradite him to face a US court after extradition to Sweden. First, this is something which the US has denied, and the corresponding suspicions have been without genuine evidence. Instead, the Swedish charges are real, however weak people may think they are.
If I was in Mr Assange's position I would, first, stand up to my right to prove my innocence in the Swedish charges. And if I happen to be extradited, then good, I will use this opportunity to draw unequal support from the left to further my cause, while using every resource available to again prove my innocence.
I think Mr Assange is a coward for running away from his sexual assault charges.
I never heard of him before, by the way.
I support his endeavours and I support open governments. But this whole debacle is far out of hand.
Because he supports open government and declassifying sensitive information which the government keeps from the public, it's natural that they left rally behind him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange