Sept 7, 2010
September 7, 2010
Seems Wikileaks wants Julian Assange to resign because of the investigation into his rape and molestation charges. (Initial charges dropped, case reopened) But it’s more likely the fact that he keeps trying to blame it on the US.
Source: The Daily Beast (Philip Shenon)
Story is interesting because of the quote made by a woman concerning Assange and what might have happened.
WikiLeaks organizer, Birgitta Jonsdottir is a parliamentarian in Iceland and also understands Swedish. She read through the court documents and said she found no evidence of a Western conspiracy. Assange thinks the CIA is behind the “smear”.
Jonsdottir re the women making the allegations:
I want to be neutral on this, because I don’t have the full story. I don’t want to diminish the seriousness of what they are saying.
And that’s where she should have stopped. Instead it was this:
Julian is brilliant in many ways, but he doesn’t have very good social skills. And he’s a classic Aussie in the sense that he’s a bit of a male chauvinist.
One doesn’t need to understand the language to have sex with someone – not even to agree on price. And one doesn’t have to understand the language to know when someone does not want to have sex. The women are not alleging sexism or complaining about his social skills or his bad breath – the charges are rape and molestation.
He should be considered innocent until proven guilty and so should the women.
