Julian Assange

There's an old proverb 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', unless he's called Julian Assange, in which case he will skip bail and hide in the Ecuadorean embassy. He claims the allegations of rape and sexual assault in Sweden are faked,  a cunning ruse to extradite him to United States, where he might face the gas chamber. On a pedantic, technical point, neither the Federal Government nor the States use the gas chamber as their primary method of execution. So ignoring for a moment the tortuous, paranoid logic where Assange ends up on Death Row via Sweden, once he's there, he can relax, it's most likely to  be a lethal injection. (Given he's an internet geek, you really think he could have checked that for himself).

Now there's probably a few of his former supporters wishing they could administer him a fatal jab or at the very least a sharp uppercut, after Assange broke his bail conditions and left them liable for £240,000. Before indulging in wild conspiracy theories, let's start with the facts. The Swedish police wish to question him about claims of sexual assault  by two different women, this is the real Swedish police mind, not the ones from the Stieg Larsson books, and they are doing their job.

Seems to be that too many Wikileaks supporters have trouble distinguishing fact from fiction. Assange is not a real life Lisbeth Salander and the Swedish authorities are not the pocket of American neo-cons. If you based your opinion of the inhabitants of Copenhagen on the The Killing, you would conclude that every one of them was sex-crazed, pathological liar with short term memory issues that never turn a light on indoors. Maybe they are all like that; I'll report back after my long weekend hanging about in disused warehouses in Vestamager.


When your hero ends up hiding in Ecuadorean Embassy claiming asylum for sex crime accusations from Sweden, one of the most liberal, open and fair societies on the planet, it is time to doubt your hero's credentials. Especially if in the  same year, he started presenting a TV show on Vladimir Putin's propaganda channel, asking the head of Hezbollah difficult and searching questions like 'Israel is an illegal state isn't it?' Assange claims to speak truth to power, but only of the power in his sights is the US government.  If there is one country that would benefit from a Wikileaks expose, it is Russia; a murderous, corrupt gangster state. Yet Assange is curiously silent about their litany of human rights abuses, probably a clause in his contract. Keep silent about Putin's murders and you need not worry about the other kind of contract he might issue. 


Sometimes your enemy's enemy is not your friend, he's a narcissist who cares only about himself.