"Swedish prosecutors had dropped the rape charges, saying time had weakened the evidence... "
Now reads:
"Swedish prosecutors had dropped the rape investigation, saying time had weakened the evidence..."
But wait for it...
" Documentaries began glamorising Assange’s work, calling him a valiant campaigner for truth, while also exposing his ill health and treatment in prison.
Then came the news he was a father to two young boys – conceived while he was in the Ecuadorian embassy and left to their mother to raise on her own... "
There you go: never mind that old rape stuff... the fellow is so wicked he actually abandoned the mother of his children leaving the poor woman to raise them "on her own"...when there was absolutely nothing stopping him leaving that Embassy to take up his responsibilities as a father aside from, em, the now admitted plans made by the CIA to abduct and murder him...which gets no mention whatsoever. Funny that.
-There's really no difference between the BBC and MI5/MI6..except they get the poor punters to pay an extra licence premium for the latter.
Re: The BBC Assange...
Posted by Ken Waldron on June 26, 2024, 9:32 pm, in reply to "The BBC Assange..."
latter recte: "former"...
Exactly…
Posted by Shyaku on June 26, 2024, 10:36 pm, in reply to "The BBC Assange..."
And well spotted.
“Time made him a martyr”: It really does make one wonder if he is destined for an unfortunate accident, out of the limelight.
Callously abandoned wife yesterday…
Posted by Ken Waldron on June 26, 2024, 10:55 pm, in reply to "Exactly…"
- Reckon she's as much a star as he. She just never stopped. Great pic: especially with the two expressions in the back.
Quid pro Quo Clarice?
Posted by Gerard on June 27, 2024, 10:17 am, in reply to "The BBC Assange..."
What did the Australian prime Minister cede to the yanks for this? Don't tell me it was an altruistic gesture..
Re: The BBC Assange...
Posted by Mark Doran on June 27, 2024, 2:31 pm, in reply to "The BBC Assange..."
Cook:
"... the entire media acted in concert in his character assassination, making it not only acceptable but respectable to hate him..."
-- Actually, I'd say more than that. The media demonisation of Assange -- in particular by way of the savoury sexual details that they magnified so relentlessly -- was such that it actually became impossible to express support for him in many contexts, not least those in which self-loving woke humanities wankpottery holds sway. On the occasions when I have tried to defend Assange in such circles, it was as if I'd tried to speak up for Jimmy sodding Savile.
Totally effective toxification: Assange's achievement and mistreatment vanish entirely, and all that remains is a triggering name to be used as a pawn in the sex war.
"On the occasions when I have tried to defend Assange in such circles, it was as if I'd tried to speak up for Jimmy sodding Savile.
Totally effective toxification: Assange's achievement and mistreatment vanish entirely, and all that remains is a triggering name to be used as a pawn in the sex war."
-Its exactly the same as they did to Alex Salmond: another enemy of the state.
Even now when you point out he was found entirely innocent by a jury consisting of a majority of women, it's not good enough. It just means the citizens are too stupid to judge and we should get rid of juries.
Even when they feel liberaly obliged to actually recognise the jury verdict, they resort to the notion that he non the less behaved "inappropriately"...which as far as I understand it is wokespeak for the non-criminal crime of being heterosexual.
on June 26, 2024, 9:29 pm