[sorenjan]

I don't know to what you're referring, but the facts of the matter are:

1. He was wanted for questioning for rape and sexual misconduct in Sweden. According to police records, he had sex with a woman who demanded that he wore a condom, which he did at first. Then next morning she wakes up by him penetrating her without consent. She then asks "are you wearing anything", to which he replies "I'm wearing you". The sexual misconduct charges are dropped due to statutes of limitations, and the rape case is dormant due to low probablility of resolving it. Maybe they will open it up again.

2. Assange fought the extraditions through several UK courts. He had multiple chances do defend himself, and lost every one. He lost a high court appeal, then when the supreme court upheld that decision he fled to Ecuador.

3. He claimed that his reason to do so was to avoid extradition to the US, but Sweden wasn't allowed to extradite him without UK's permission first [0]. He could've gone to Sweden and face the charges, and avoided this whole thing. But he had to make himself look like a victim of a conspiracy instead, and his followers eats it up.

He's been in self imposed custody because he refused to accept the lawful rulings of two democracies, and Wikileaks has promoted conspiracies like Pizza gate and Qanon, they are not a poor organization to fight for freedom of speech.

[0] https://www.aklagare.se/en/nyheter--press/media/the-assange-...

[lhjuhafjbh]

> He claimed that his reason to do so was to avoid extradition to the US, [...]. But he had to make himself look like a victim of a conspiracy instead, and his followers eats it up.

"Julian Assange, 47, (03.07.71) has today, Thursday 11 April, been further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities" http://news.met.police.uk/news/update-arrest-of-julian-assan...

Sounds like Assange wasn't that wrong?

[sorenjan]

First of all, that's unrelated to the extradition to Sweden. He said that he didn't want to go to Sweden because then he would be more likely to get extradited, but the opposite was true. He fought to stay in the UK, but fled when all legal options to avoid going to Sweden was exhausted.

Second, the US has had seven more years to build a case now, and a new Republican government.

[icebraining]

> First of all, that's unrelated to the extradition to Sweden.

It's not "unrelated". It shows the US wants him, as he claimed.

You write that the UK would have had to authorize a further extradition from Sweden to the US, but does that authorization depend on the same level of judicial review?

[wpdev_63]

>1. He was wanted for questioning for rape and sexual misconduct in Sweden. According to police records, he had sex with a woman who demanded that he wore a condom, which he did at first. Then next morning she wakes up by him penetrating her without consent. She then asks "are you wearing anything", to which he replies "I'm wearing you". The sexual misconduct charges are dropped due to statutes of limitations, and the rape case is dormant due to low probablility of resolving it. Maybe they will open it up again.

That's typical CIA character assassination 101. Pay a prostitute to sleep with the perpetrator and bring up false charges.

Do you think it's a coincidence this happened right after the leaks?!

>2. Assange fought the extraditions through several UK courts. He had multiple chances do defend himself, and lost every one. He lost a high court appeal, then when the supreme court upheld that decision he fled to Ecuador.

UK is a pseudo puppet state of the US at this point. Fun fact - the UK government paid $300 million to the US government to spy on its own citizens.

[mothsonasloth]

They haven't promoted conspiracies like Pizzagate or Qanon, they just leaked Podesta's emails etc.

What conclusions people draw from those leaks is on them, not wikileaks.

[sorenjan]

>> Are those of us investigating the Comet Pizza/Human Trafficking scandal on the right track? And if not, where should we be looking? >> EDIT: This is very real and we need to SAVE these kids. If the Wikileaks staff is uncomfortable posting this here, please give us a bat signal somewhere else. > It is curious. So far we dont know what to make of it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5c8u9l/we_are_the_wik...

> CBS Reality Check covers Pizzagate. https://www.facebook.com/BenSwannRealityCheck/videos/1330641...

> More: https://file.wikileaks.org/file/FBI-pedophile-symbols.pdf

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/821595404500430848

Also: https://our.wikileaks.org/Pizzagate https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1000795757983780865

[danso]

That’s debatable: https://twitter.com/natsecgeek/status/1012399750220599301

[realusername]

Well, that's some nice arguments about the Sweden case you are bringing up. We will see very soon if Sweden will want to extradite him validating your theory or if we will end up extradited in the US instead (spoiler: it will be the second option).

[celticninja]

re: 3 - He was just arrested on a US extraditon request and nothing to do with the Swedish charges. In fact the swedes are a little upset as they want him extradited there.

So not really the victim of a conspiracy, he feared it and he was right to fear it.

[keepmesmall]

Pizzagate and Qanon are not conspiracies, they are theories about conspiracies. A conspiracy theory is just a non-mainstream body of information describing a system of political entities.