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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)he has lost in the Swedish courts, in attempts to overturn the outstanding arrest warrant. Nobody seems to have produced any evidence that the rulings against him result from some corruption of judicial independence in Sweden and the UK
Saint Julian himself, of course, has gradually convinced many of his supporters that he's strange and unstable. Again and again, persons and organizations, that originally stood with him, have dropped away for various reasons
I have no idea what the true story of his Swedish encounters is, but his own accounts suggest he is a shallow misogynist. It is possible to wonder if perhaps there would have been no story here at all, had he been less unpleasant to his partners in his casual copulations, but there's no real use speculating on this matter: the task, of sorting out the facts, now lies with the Swedish courts
The grandiose conspiracy fantasies, associated with the Swedish extradition story, have produced no interesting insights at all, although there has been adequate time to explore the claims. So that's a sterile avenue that no one will waste time considering further