By abandoning Julian Assange and arguing the First Amendment is a dead letter, the Western media has cut its own throat. From Paul Craig Roberts at paulcraigroberts.org:
A Truthful Account of Julian Assange’s “crime”
Julian Assange has been harassed on false charges for more than a decade and held in prison or in house arrest in the Ecuadoran embassy in London for a decade.
Assange’s trouble began when two Swedish women each took him home to their beds and later complained that he hadn’t used a condom. One or both wanted him to take an Aids test. Foolishly, he refused, and one or both women went to the police to see if he could be required to take the test.
The corrupt or stupid police concocted a rape charge out of the women’s complaint. A female Swedish prosecutor investigated Assange for rape, and finding no rape, withdrew the arrest warrant over alleged rape the day after it as issued. “As far as I am concerned there are no longer any grounds to suspect that he (Assange) committed rape,” Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne said on August 21, 2010. The whore Western media, of course, continued the false rape story for a decade.
Assange was free to go and went to the UK. A second Swedish prosecutor, deputy chief prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson, suspected by some of having been bribed to help Washington get its dirty corrupt hands on Assange, reopened the case against Assange on a false pretense. She wanted him extradited to Sweden for questioning, but extraditions are not granted for questioning. There have to be charges recognized by a court. The second Swedish prosecutor had no charges. Assange and his supporters figured that if she got him to Sweden she would turn him over to the Americans. Assange said she could question him in the UK. What came out of this was that the British obeyed their master in Washington and used the extradition request to hold Assange under house arrest. Once the British got their hands on Assange in 2019, Persson’s “investigation” had served its purpose and she dropped her “investigation.”
