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In reply to the discussion: No charges ever pressed: Assange marks three years of UK detention [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)discussing what to 'do about him'. They apparently ruled out murder since it would turn him into a 'martyr' and settled on a 'sexual scandal'. Wikileaks published that document. Why Assange, knowing they were after him, allowed himself himself to get involved with one of Sweden's most extreme 'feminists' is beyond me, but he's not the first and won't be the last public figure, see Clinton eg, to make that mistake.
I think at this point with no charges filed they accomplished their goal and are not willing to take this to a public trial where they actually have to provide EVIDENCE. Having seen some of that 'evidence' at the beginning of all this, I can understand why they are refusing to file charges.
The goal was to silence the New Media, Wikileaks being the symbol of effective exposure of corruption in governments and Big Banks. They bought up the MSM but then found themselves exposed to the New Media and since they couldn't buy it, they decided to attack it.
I never doubted he was set up, but waited to see if they would actually file charges on the off chance that there was something there. After all these years, I, like millions of others, am going with my initial instincts.
They can't file charges, it would necessitate providing Assange's attorneys with their 'evidence'. So long as they can drag this out, they don't have to provide the 'evidence'.
One piece of evidence did get exposed early on. The condom, provided by the women most involved in this, turned out not to have any DNA from Assange on it. She claimed this was the condom he 'ripped' against her will that was used during the sex act. Quite a miracle to manage NOT to leave any DNA on a condom used during a sex act! Lol!
So I sympathize with the prosecutor. She has one 'victim' who denies any rape and is outraged over been used in all of this. And another 'victim' who was caught in an undeniable lie when she presented the condom claiming it was proof that Assange deliberately 'ripped it'. Except he apparently was nowhere near that condom.
The sham will eventually be revealed. The truth always comes out, sooner or later.
But what boggles my mind is Dems who are trying to protect the Bush War Criminals and the Crooked Bankers who collapsed the World's Economies right here on DU by attacking those, like Assange, who exposed them. THAT is more interesting to me than the Assange case, he was obviously going to be targeted for exposing the crimes of the powerful. But why are Dems protecting War Criminals and Crooked Bankers? Amazing, isn't it?