Secular Café: The strange affair of Julian Assange

Secular Café For serious discussion of politics, political news, policy, political theory and economics and events happening round the world

The strange affair of Julian Assange Apr 25th 2013, 13:30 Julian Assange is in London's Ecuadorian embassy in a 5 party dispute where most of the actors are looking pretty unpleasant. Firstly Assange is a rather unpleasant self publicist who has recklessly also publicised some leaked information that was liable to have caused people to be killed. However the leaked information came via the recklessly poor security of the US Army and an immature leaker and as a result given that the USA is rather cavalier in its attitude to other peoples jurisdictions it is perhaps not likley but a possibility that he might be extradited to the USA where he will treated extremely poorly. Which is why he doesn't want to go to Sweden to answer charges of rape. Some people think this is being done on behalf of the US government because the charges appear trumped up however Sweden is so absurdly politically correct that he may well have actually broken the law with acts that wouldn;t have been crimes anywhere else.(essentially in practice consent can effectively be withdrawn post coitus). But then he has gone for refuge with another unpleasant country that has abominable press freedom.

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions