WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange arrested in London

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According to various news sources the Founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange was arrested today in London.

Scotland Yard said Mr Assange was arrested by appointment at a London police station at 0930 GMT, meaning that he turned himself in.

The arrest is not for his activities on Wikileaks but based on a warrant issued in Sweden accusing him of one count of rape, one of unlawful coercion and two counts of sexual molestation, alleged to have been committed in August 2010.

If the district judge rules the arrest warrant is legally correct, he could be extradited to Sweden.

A Wikileaks spokesman told Reuters that:

“Wikileaks is operational. We are continuing on the same track as laid out before.

“Any development with regards to Julian Assange will not change the plans we have with regards to the releases today and in the coming days.”

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Comments

  4. LS Morgan says

    Smells of a setup.
    A bullet behind the ear would’ve been too obvious. This sort of discreditation campaign is exactly what governments do to people who have shit on them- and Assange is a one-man manure farmer.

  5. LS Morgan says

    … oh, and are we booking action on whether Assange “commits suicide in prison” ala Irv Rubin?

  6. MHB says

    LS

    I’m going to agree with you here.

    There are many ways to skin a cat and if your screwing with the government you may get unknowingly get placed into a very bad situation.

    It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if this was a government setup.

    Having said that if your going to go down the path that Assange chose you better lives an exceptionally clean and boring life, staying home and watching TV with minimal contact with any people would be advisable

  7. Gazzip says

    “Smells of a setup.
    A bullet behind the ear would’ve been too obvious. This sort of discreditation campaign is exactly what governments do to people who have shit on them- and Assange is a one-man manure farmer.”

    Yep, how convenient for them eh, smells like government bullshit to me, they’re all the same, two faced & full of crap.

    …David and Goliath continues 😉

  10. WQ says

    The Gov is going to need to tighten up things on the internet now. Can’t have this kind of data circulating so easy. Perfect set up.

  11. Gazzip says

    Julian Assange denied bail over sexual assault allegations

    guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/07/julian-assange-denied-bail

    …oooo, now there’s a surprise…not! 😉

  12. jp says

    So he is rapist? Isn’t that going to damage his credibility a bit. Who wants to support a rapists website, or listen to anything they have to say.

  14. trasparency international says

    From Indymedia portal:
    http://liguria.indymedia.org/node/6679

    Arrested the genoese Assange
    As the Australian Italian Assange also want him in jail. The spy who stole confidential documents and electronic cable financiers, lawyers, professors, Iranians, social centers will end up in prison.
    The trap of the secret services for quite a while will no longer bother. Unless you leave the computer (as Assange). Could intercede for him his friend Putin (including former secret agents, there is always a bit of solidarity).
    From Il Secolo XIX newspaper of Genoa today:
    Pesto’s Wikileaks, the Genoese Assange ends with arrests
    Altana Peter, 45 years old, a former secret service employee, for newspapers and many blogs has become a sort of genoese Julian Assange. And the constant and widespread dissemination of confidential files on the business full-bodied of Genoa (maxi mergers of public companies, studies on the revolutions of the traffic, background information on the work of luminaries of science and especially malfeasance within the bank) keeps close to the figure of at least the suggestion Australian journalist, who made her blush with cable chancelleries over the world.
    Doing the right proportions of fame and weight of the mutual scoop, there is another detail in common with a few hours, and is purely judicial. As the creator of Wikileaks, a few days ago, was jailed in London for a crime “disconnected” to the pandemonium of these days (the accusation of rape is to have two Swedish girls forced to have unprotected sex) as well the 007 that targets the Genoese came to a standstill, in this case “home”. Proved fatal to the conviction ‘final’ documents for stolen many years ago. At the same time, Altana, is one of the main suspects for the files that between October and November were circulated through the Indymedia site antagonist, confidential documents against the Carige bank, secret messages inside your local authorities or the scientific director of the Gaslini Hospital, Lorenzo Moretta.

    http://www.ilsecoloxix.it/p/genova/2010/12/11/AMQLEDPE-wikileaks_assange_genovese.shtml

  18. evilthoughtsarethetruest says

    Oldest trick in the book. You can’t kill someone that famous so you have to discredit them. Hire 2 bitches to rub his groin, go to his fancy hotel and then cry foul. Looky there a sex fiend who doesn’t know no is no. Whats next a meth lab in his penthouse and a kilo of enriched uranium under his bed labeled : make a bomb out of me for the glory of (insert villian – in this case allah)

    They don’t honestly expect people to buy this shit do they? If they do – damn man these sheep do need shepards. Even ones as evil as they are being exposed to be. They would just all walk off the cliff or something.

  19. MHB says

    Evil

    Wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

    When you go down the path he has he must anticipate such “set ups” if in fact it was one, and turn down almost all social conduct including groin rubbing unless one does it themselves