Wikileaks Author Charged with Rape, Smear Campaign?

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08 ... tml?hpt=T1

You know I saw this as i working today (before it got revoked) and thinking that it was way too coincidental for something like this to occur right now. I know there's a lot of powerful people out there who detest this guy, but how far are they willing to go to shut him up?

Now, I don't know for certain whether there was anything to the charges, but Sweden dropped them rather quickly and they haven't really said why yet. They claim he's still going to be investigated for molestation charges though.

So thoughts?

Shortly before the Iraq invasion their WMD nemesis Scott Ritter was falsely accused of similar crimes. This is old hat. In that case he was supposedly trying to pick up an underage girl. The point was raw meat for the haters. During discussions about the WMD, Ritter was brought up, the haters said "he is a paedophile" and therefore he is "discredited". The same thing will happen with Assange. It will help his enemies - there's a strong tendency for people to say "where there's smoke there's fire" and there's a lot of credulousness about CIA and other dirty tricks purveyors. The more sophisticated will see through it but they're not the targets of this scam.

I wonder how the molestation charges will be pursued, if they ever are. My impression is that it's just a smear. It would be better if the site wasn't so popularly associated with Assange in particular; I have seen a couple of long articles recently about Wikileaks that really focus on him and his life. (Is he in charge of the project in any sense, or just a spokesperson? I don't know too much about them, honestly)

When I think of the CIA involved with smearing public figures, it feels very 60s or 50s to me, so I find this kind of amusing...

charges where dropped FYI

The best part is sweden has declared itself a "safehaven" for whistleblowers. There is no real safety for such a innocent but wanted person. As far as smear campains seeming 60's...you need to look up gang stalking, group stalking and multistalking which are funded by homeland security and the fusion centers.

Governments always use propaganda against people they don't like, there is evidence of this throughout history. What, you think they'd just stop?

Wikileaks will keep going even if they have to move the hosting to Antarctica.

http://amovingworld.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... ucted.html