- Enough of boring stuff of Afghan stiffs and Pentagon
staffs! Not a minute too early, when we were about to succumb to boredom
of approaching rainy autumn, we were hit by the new release of The Amazing
Adventures Of Captain Neo, In Blonde-Land ...
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- as no doubt the story of Julian Assange's escapades in
Sweden will be known once it inevitably makes its way into the hands of
one of the goofier Hollywood directors say Robert Zemeckis or Mel
Brooks, or perhaps Stephen Herek of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
It would do better in the hands of Andy Wachowski, where he might do for
Julian Assange what he once did for Keanu Reeves.
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 Who could ask for a more beautiful set-up?
It's a story fit for a tabloid, yet it might be transformed into something
an intellectual could read without embarrassment. This latest adventure
is the stuff of pulp fiction, and chock full of Langley spies, computer
hackers, crazy feminists, flatfooted cops and sleazy rags in the female
kingdom of Sweden!
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- Julian Assange is a character that might have been ripped
from the celluloid frames of the Matrix: flaxen and lanky, he moves through
cyberspace like a superman. When, on those rare occasions that he does
emerge into the real world, it is to perform Kung Fu exercises. He hardly
ever eats or drinks. His corporeal body can normally be found sitting in
front of a MacPro or two, while his digital alter ego commutes and computes,
battling the odds and the system in fantastic virtual combat. Like Neo,
he is a natural-born hacker who hacked just for the heck of it until he
discovered the Matrix. He had hundreds of remarkable hacking achievements
to his name when in 1992 he pleaded guilty to twenty-two of them. I like
to think that someday, after he has passed on in the fullness of time,
he will become a kind of guardian angel for hackers, or perhaps the Greek
God of Cyberspace with His Golden Board, forever surfing the web.
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- His adventurous style and quick wit have earned him many
Swedish fans, and so when Fate led him into the sun-drenched late summer
ofSweden, Julian found himself dazzled by reddening apples, cooling lakes,
and boisterous crayfish-parties. Captain Neo soon paid the price for letting
down his guard! It was only a few days later that this unassuming computer
geek awoke to discover his own face plastered across a tabloid's front
page,and the headlines screaming Arrest of Double Rapist Imminent! Imagine
yourself on vacation, visiting friends, and finding yourself suddenly the
object of a nationwide manhunt. Captain Neo felt the eerie presence of
the Matrix, and he pinched himself to make sure he was still in the real
world. The newspaper was still there on the table, and it told him
and all of Sweden that two women had accused him of rape, and that
the police were closing in.
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- No, Captain Neo did not passively wait for the police
to come to his door. Captain Neo is no stranger to the tactics of the Matrix.
Ever since Julian's WikiLeaks website had published the Afghan War Diary
(a huge pile of secret intelligence reports that reveal the dirty war the
US is running against Afghanistan), Uncle Sam has been hunting for ways
to have him carted off to Guantanamo. A Right Wing News site has, just
below an icon of Sarah Palin, recommended a summary death sentence for
our hero: Can we have a CIA agent with a sniper rifle rattle a bullet around
his skull the next time he appears in public as a warning? You bet we can
-- and we should. If that's too garish for people, then the CIA can kill
him and make it look like an accident. Either way, Julian Assange deserves
to die. Thousands of right-wing American sites bristle with similar murderous
commentary about our beleaguered computer programmer.
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- Captain Neo understands death squads. To forestall further
threats, Assange publicly placed a huge, encrypted file onto the WikiLeaks
site. This file contains all the most sensitive secret information he has
in his possession. He called it Insurance, and thousands of activists all
over the world await the password that will release this Pandora's Box
onto the heads of the US administration.
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 Instead, the Matrix plays dirty and lets
loose a sex bomb upon our intrepid Neo. When you can't contest the message,
you smear the messenger.Sweden is tailor made for sending a young man into
a honey trap. Sweden is content to leave politics to the women, and that
makes for particularly thorny anti-rape legislation, where a conviction
might be secured from something as thin as an anonymous accuser's allegation.
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- In any case, our lucky Neo Julian Assange was only able
to enjoy his fugitive-from-justice status for a few hours. By noon, the
charges were already dropped, and he was free to be defamed from one end
of Sweden to the other, not to mention the countless websites. It's a simple
system: the websites show the headlines, and the headlines report the web
gossip. It's Character Assassination 101, but why in Sweden of all places
couldn't the dirty tricks department make the accusations stick?
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- Swedish bloggers uncovered the full story in a few hours.
The complaint was lodged by a radical feminist Anna Ardin, 30, a one-time
intern in the Swedish Foreign Service and a minor political activist. She
had invited Julian Assange to a crayfish party, and they had enjoyed some
quality time together. When Ardin discovered that Julian shared a similar
experience with a 20-year-old woman a day or two later, she obtained the
younger woman's cooperation in declaring before the police that changing
partners in so rapid a manner constituted a sort of deceit. And deceit
is a sort of rape. The prosecutor immediately issued an arrest warrant,
and the press was duly notified. Once the facts were examined in the cold
light of day, the charge of rape seemed ludicrous and was immediately dropped.
In the meantime the younger woman, perhaps realizing how she had been used,
withdrew her report, leaving the vengeful Anna Ardin standing alone.
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- This story is nothing new: a star-crazed woman beds a
celebrity and then lodges a complaint in a fit of revenge as soon as she
discovers he prefers a younger woman. Feminists simply will not put up
with this type of male behaviour; they call it rape, especially when the
act is consensual because condescension is harder to bear than mere violence.
The fault lies in the feminised Swedish system of justice and its reflexive
targeting of men. Suppose a man prefers not to use condoms, does that take
away a woman's right to say no? Does having had unprotected sex with two
women make him a 'double rapist'?
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- However, before we absolve the Swedish police as unwitting,
if zealous, dupes, please note that Swedish law strictly forbids police
and prosecutors to release to the media the details of any rape-connected
complaint. The Expressen had all the details of the case, including the
names of the accused and the complainant, within a matter of minutes. Please
note further that the right-wing tabloid Expressen belongs to the Bonners
family, the biggest media owners in Sweden, who are not only pro-American
but very much pro-Israel, too. As you know, the pro-Israeli lobby is warmly
supportive of America's Middle Eastern wars, while Assange and his WikiLeaks
have the potential to undermine America's weakening support for the war.
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- Were the criminal reporters of the Expressen that good,
or is it possible that Ms. Ardin willingly collaborated with the Expressen
in targeting our plucky Neo? Swedish bloggers note that she consorted with
many Americans while working at the Swedish embassy in Buenos Aires. She
has been deported from Cuba for suspicious activity. It is said that she
may be related to Lieutenant Colonel Mattias Ardin, Deputy Head of Operations,
SwedishJoint Forces Land Component Command in Afghanistan.
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- Openly feminist and politically connected, she is well
equipped for the job of character assassination. She has written and published
on her blog a "revenge instruction", describing how to commit
a complete character assassination to legally destroy a person who "should
be punished for what he did". If the offence was of a sexual nature,
the revenge also must also be sex-related, she wrote. Ardin was involved
in Gender Studies in Uppsala University, the most man-hating faculty in
the world under the man-eating Professor Eva Lundgren, where they encourage
women to report what they think is harassment (any form of flirt). She
was in charge of gender equality in the Students' Union, a junior inquisitor
of sorts.
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- In other words, she was perfect for the job. So was Sweden.
In order to frame Julian in Singapore, they would have to fit him up with
drugs. To frame Julian in England, they might have to report he had skinned
and roasted cats. To hang a frame on Julian in Sweden only required reporting
sex between consenting adults.
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- If the setup was so perfect, why did it fail? Overreach,
as always. When Anna Ardin maneuvered the younger girl into assisting her
in her revenge, she overreached herself. When the girl withdrew her report,
Anna's "deceit equals rape" accusation failed. However, this
is just conjecture, and the true facts of the case lie deep in the vaults
of the Expressen.
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- Hopefully it is all over, and our Neo will continue his
perilous runs for the benefit of all civilization. And the Swedes? Perhaps
now they will recognize that they went too far. "When the reporter
from the Washington Post realized that I was not joking, (said a Swedish
legal figure this week), that it does not need more than one woman's word
for the police to arrest a man and charge him with rape, he said: "But
my God, are you completely crazy? It's worse than Iraq of Saddam Hussein
..."
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