Assange Besieged
By Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett
The Amazing Adventures of
Captain Neo takes a decided turn for the worse.
The
plot thickens as our favorite hero of the Matrix; our own “Captain Neo” Julian
Assange, faces danger yet again. When we
last parted company with the legendary founder of WikiLeaks, he was
breathing a sigh of relief after dodging spurious double-rape charges. The
complaints were dropped, and our hero was free to roam the globe once again. But
soap opera plots are repetitive; the story was quickly recycled and now our
brave captain is again under threat of being castrated on Stockholm’s
Stora Torget, or whatever the latest craven
penalty is for molesting sacred Nordic virgins in a land where Vikings once
ruled.
In other words,
the farcical rape charges have once again been leveled against the Pentagon’s
Public Enemy Number One. Julian Assange now stands accused of: (1) not calling a
young woman the day after he had enjoyed a night with her, (2) asking her to pay
for his bus ticket, (3) having unsafe sex, and (4) participating in two brief
affairs in the course of one week. These four minor charges, worthy of Leopold
Bloom’s mock trial in the Nightown chapter in Ulysses, have been shaken
and fermented until they were able to cook up a half-baked rape case! Step down
Iran; Sweden takes the cake! While Iran is notorious for unyielding conservative
sentences against adulterers, Sweden shows us what the liberal side of the coin
looks like as she invents criminal charges for failing to telephone and
for careless use of preservatives in consensual acts of affection.
Worse, they are purposely conflating consensual sex with rape for political
purposes. In this, Sweden makes a mockery of the very real crime of violent
rape.
The Swedes have
a practical reason behind their deceptively slapstick police-work. The WikiLeaks
founder, pursued by malevolent forces around the world, sought momentary relief
beneath Sweden’s reputation as a bastion of free speech. But the moment Julian
sought the protection of Swedish media law, the CIA immediately threatened to
discontinue intelligence sharing with SEPO, the Swedish Secret Service. That got
the present right-wing government out of its chair, as it does everything it can
to bury the Prime Minister Olof Palme’s legacy of careful neutrality. The
suspicion of whether the rape farce is an orchestrated campaign, might be
illuminated by these facts: (1) Sweden sent troops to Afghanistan, (2) Assange’s
WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Diary which exposed this cruel and needless
neo-colonial campaign. Furthermore, the expected release of new secret materials
by WikiLeaks might just influence the general elections on September 19. Perhaps
that explains the
sudden police raid on a WikiLeaks server.
An American Tea
Party website
the RightwingNews.com suggested that “a CIA agent with a sniper rifle
rattle a bullet around [Assange’s] skull the next time he appears in public as a
warning”. Rest assured that the CIA is wiser than the Tea Party. They at least
have learned the lesson of Che Guevara. Nowadays they ruin a rebel’s reputation
instead of wasting a bullet. They won’t raise Assange up to become a martyr,
they simply use his own erstwhile allies to reduce him to a laughing stock. They
stain him with opprobrium. It is much more certain and final than the marksman’s
shot. History is witness to their growing efficiency in using this tactic. In
the 70’s, they could only bring themselves to say that Philip Agee was a
womanizer and a drunkard. Nowadays they do not stint at charges of pedophilia,
for example to humiliate Scott Ritter for failing to go along with George W
Bush’s charade of Iraqi WMD. As you might expect, the rape campaign against
Assange might be just an initial volley. Perhaps they will decide he is a
pedophile too. The unspoken threat is enough to send some
faint-hearted supporters of WikiLeaks scurrying for cover.
The bullet can
always come later, once the victim has been successfully isolated by the smear
campaign. The Gospels tell us that hardly anyone followed Jesus to Golgotha,
though just a week earlier the people of Jerusalem hailed Him with hosannas. A
Jewish anti-Gospel explains that this was the result of a successful smear
campaign managed by Judas, a surprisingly modernist reading for an early
medieval story.
For a smear that
really sticks, you need to get it from an ex-apostle. An accusation by a
Caiaphas does not impress. If you are targeting a leftist, hire leftists. For
example, Trotskyites were willing and useful tools against the Communists.
Pseudo Anti-Zionists are currently being used to hamstring a genuine
Pro-Palestinian movement. Who are the Judases of this campaign against our
Julian?
- An
anonymous group claiming to be
“Wikileaks insiders” uploaded a new site full of “revelations” about
Assange’s past and present, claiming he lives in luxury in South Africa on
donated funds – though he appears almost daily in Swedish media and police
reports.
- Another
ex-apostle is the Icelander politician Birgitta Jonsdottir, who is
misrepresented as a “Wikileaks spokesperson”. She called on Assange “to step
down” and leave Wikileaks to drift without his guidance – as if WikiLeaks is
somehow separate from Assange.
- The
pseudo-progressive organization
Reporters Sans Frontières attacked Assange for endangering the lives of
innocent American secret agents in Afghanistan. Despite its ‘leftist’
terminology, RSF is a private organization drawing funds from US government
sources aiming to destabilize Cuba. It is connected to Cuban émigrés in
Miami.
- Anna
Ardin (the official complainant) is often described by the media as a
“leftist” but there are telltale signs of CIA connection. She has ties to
the US-financed anti-Castro and anti-communist groups. She published her
anti-Castro diatribes (see
here and
here) in the Swedish-language publication Revista de Asignaturas
Cubanas put out by Misceláneas de Cuba. From Oslo, Professor
Michael Seltzer points out that this periodical is the product of a
well-financed anti-Castro organization in Sweden. He further notes that the
group is connected with
Union Liberal Cubana led by Carlos Alberto Montaner whose CIA ties were
exposed
here. Note that Ardin was deported from Cuba for subversive activities.
In Cuba she interacted with the feminist anti-Castro group
Las damas de blanco (the Ladies in White). This group receives US
government funds and the convicted anti-communist terrorist Luis Posada
Carriles is a
friend and supporter. Wikipedia quotes Hebe de Bonafini, president of
the Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo as saying that “the so-called Ladies
in White defend the terrorism of the United States.”
However we do
not have to accept the single-bullet theory. Life is more complicated than that.
In addition to her anti-Castro, pro-CIA streak, Anna Ardin apparently indulges
in her favorite sport of male-bashing. A Swedish forum reports that she is an
expert on sexual harassment and the male “master suppression techniques”. Once,
as she was lecturing, a male student in the audience looked at his notes instead
of staring at her. Anna Ardin reported him for sexual harassment because he
discriminated against her for being a woman and because she claimed he made use
of the male “master suppression technique” in trying to make her feel invisible.
As soon as the student learned about her complaint, he contacted her to
apologize and explain himself. Anna Ardin’s response was to once again report
him for sexual harassment, again because he was using the “master suppression
technique”, this time to belittle her feelings.
Consciously
or not, Anna Ardin, the man-hating feminist, is a perfect ally to the
man-killing Pentagon, so perfect that a hundred writers would not be able to
improve on her. They share a hatred of the masculine Barbudos of Castro, with
their beards, cigars and machine guns. They hate the equally masculine, bearded
Hezbullah warriors. They hate feminine women – they demand that women everywhere
give men the Abu Ghraib treatment. The New World Order they want to create is a
world without masculine men and feminine women.
Ardin is
apparently involved with a “Christian” Social-Democrat group. This is probably
the most insolent detail of her work history. For a true Christian (or a Jew or
a Muslim), the use of a condom is prevention of new life - a form of murder, yet
one of Ardin’s main complaints against Assange is that his condom was not in
place. For feminists of her kind, a man is nothing more than a sex toy; for her,
sex has no connection to procreation, let alone to sacred union.
Christianity has
a powerful and esoteric subtext of the sacred and fruitful union between male
and female. However, the Swedish gender activists of Ardin’s ilk have
successfully destroyed this meaning in Sweden. The Swedish church has a precious
few male priests: what was once the struggle for female equality has ended up
with men being effectively removed from service. Nowadays very few Swedish
male-female couples marry in the church, or get married at all; most Swedish gay
couples, however, are proud to become “man and wife” in the church. This is all
good news for wealthy Swedes: deserted churches sell their properties (once
enjoyed by the community) to be fenced off by the nouveau riche created by the
latest privatization wave. So much for Swedish social democracy!
The second
accuser, Sofia Wilen, 26, is Anna’ friend. Here is a
video of an Assange press conference where one can see the girls together.
Those present at the conference marveled at her groupie-like behavior. Though
rock stars are used to girls dying to have sex with them, it is much less common
in the harsh field of political journalism. Sofia worked hard to bed Assange,
according to her own confession; she was also the first to complain to police.
She is little known and her motives are vague. Why might a young woman (who
shares her life with American artist Seth Benson) pursue such a sordid political
adventure?
The brilliant
Israeli writer Gilad Atzmon describes, in his funny novel My One and Only
Love, how the secret services employ young ladies for honey-traps. Is this
the case here? Perhaps it is nothing more than a case of gold digging. New
legislation, in Sweden and all over Europe, has made men extremely vulnerable to
extortion scams of this sort. A young Swedish woman, 26 (her name withheld)
succeeded in winning over a million dollars during the course of one vacation in
Greece, as
reported by the Daily Telegraph. She complained of being raped. Four men
were arrested, their names disclosed, and their jobs jeopardized. She went back
home a millionaire, her sacred identity safely preserved. Her success begs
imitation: according to an
EU report, Sweden has twenty times more rape complaints than were generated
by the hot-blooded Italians. Most are dismissed right away, and justly so.
Rape is a
horrible crime, and it should not be stretched to encompass minor misdemeanors
and moral failings (like the failure to give an encouraging phone call the next
day). Tellingly, when the complainant’s advocate was asked why the young women
were unsure whether they were raped, he replied: “They are not lawyers”. Rape
(like murder) is a crime that one needs no lawyers to understand. Rape is a
capital crime: if the rape charges are proved false, then certainly the
complainant should be charged with criminal defamation.
As for Julian
Assange, we need him. We need our captain Neo, whether chaste or womanizer, in
order to uncover the secret doings of our governments behind the Matrix. For our
own sakes, we must all do our part to protect him from castrating feminists and
secret services alike.