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by Miner49er 2407 days ago
He always maintained he didn't face the charges in Sweden for fear of being extradited to the U.S.

For sexual assault he'd likely already be getting out of prison in Sweden, or at least be very close. Extradition to the U.S. has always been the real threat to him. The fact that he's facing extradition now proves it was a valid concern.

Even if the Swedes were honestly just trying to get him for sexual assault, he was still gonna face U.S. extradition. It doesn't matter if they were helping the U.S. knowingly or not.
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mariorossi666 2407 days ago
> He always maintained he didn't face the charges in Sweden for fear of being extradited to the U.S.

Yeah... not really.

He's guilty of being a dick to women and is finally paying for it.

    According to court transcripts, Assange said he “wanted to impregnate women” and “preferred virgins because he would be the first to impregnate them”. He also reportedly told one of his alleged victims that “Sweden is a good country to have kids in”. 

    It’s unclear if Assange has engaged in this behavior with other women, but it is clear that he was fixated on, if not obsessed with, impregnating women. By the time he was accused of sexual assault, he had impregnated at least four women, all of whom gave birth to the children.
There also was the time when he tried to scare them, to make them drop charges by using wikileaks as a weapon to frame them as manipulators

    “An actual court case is going to be very, very hard for these women,” he warned. “They will be reviled forever by a large segment of the global population, so I don’t think it’s in their interest to proceed that way.”
And he also wanted to share his opinion on Sweden with the rest of the World

   “I fell into a hornets’ nest of revolutionary feminism,” Assange said in a 2010 interview during which he also described Sweden as “the Saudi Arabia of feminism”.
Imagine saying the same thing of U.S. in U.S. while accused of having raped a woman from U.S.A.

He clearly deserve what happened to him in Sweden, I don't know about the rest, but the Sweden rape case was the nail on his coffin, and he's the sole responsible for it.

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/05/02/julian-assange-is-a-misog...

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WrtCdEvrydy 2407 days ago
> being a dick to women

I'll take things that are not crimes being used as proof of a crime for 1000, Alex.

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mariorossi666 2407 days ago
> I'll take things that are not crimes being used as proof of a crime for 1000, Alex.

Rape is a crime.

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WrtCdEvrydy 2407 days ago
You said 'being a dick to women' and 'is finally paying for it'....
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mariorossi666 2407 days ago
raping women is being a dick with women.

And this wasn't the first time he was accused of rape.

It was at least the fourth time.

So yeah, being that kind of dick to women is a crime in my book.

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im3w1l 2407 days ago
This is valuable context I have not seen posted in an Assange thread here before, thanks.
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isostatic 2407 days ago
> he was still gonna face U.S. extradition

Which would have been no different to the UK

Lets take the conspiracy theory at face value

1) Assange in UK 2) Sweden tried to extradite him (via an EAW) relating to charges in Sweden 3) Assange goes to Sweden 4) The charges are dropped, but instead the US extradites him from Sweden to the US

1) Assange in UK 2) Sweden tried to extradite him (via an EAW) relating to charges in Sweden 3) Assange goes to Sweden 4) The charges are actually real, he goes to trial, gets off, then the US extradites him from Sweden to the US

1) Assange in UK 2) Sweden tried to extradite him (via an EAW) relating to charges in Sweden 3) Assange goes to Sweden 4) The charges are actually real, he goes to trial, goes to jail, then the US extradites him from Sweden to the US after his sentence

1) Assange in UK 2) Sweden tried to extradite him (via an EAW) relating to charges in Sweden 3) Assange doesn't goes to Sweden 4) The US extradites him from UK to the US

Why is Scenario 4 any different to scenarios 1, 2, 3?

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monocasa 2407 days ago
Extraordinary rendition.

Sweden has historically been more than happy to just let US intelligence just black bag Swedish residents and take them to prisons in countries that allow torture, whereas until recently the UK wouldn't even let extraordinary rendition flights refuel on British territory.

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