The Swedish political crusade against Assange and Wikileaks

1. Sweden's own political and geopolitical reasons to fight Assange and his Wikileaks project are viewed nowadays by his lawyers as a punishment or "vendetta" - a term I referred first in "Why Sweden revenge against Assange" (Professors blog 7/12-1010) - for Wikileaks early exposures about a purportedly fake-neutrality in  Swedish international stand. But the Anti-Assange crusade should be also evaluated as a measure in preventing the impact of new eminent disclosures.

New possible revelations about the truth of Sweden's role internationally - on top of the recent disclosures - would make practically impossible for the establishment's media to exercise the lenient cover up with which they seem to have indulged the politicians involved in such exposures.

Wikileaks disclosed concrete secret agreements between Swedish government officials and the CIA or the FBI  on the transference of private, political or sensitive information about Swedish citizens to the USA. These agreements were purportedly hidden from the Swedish Parliament and the Swedish public. The disclosures also evidenced the subservient role of Swedish rulers towards as series of USA initiatives in the military as well financial and corporative spheres. There was the secret active Swedish help during the bombardment of Iraq shelters while Sweden boasted receiving as refugees victims of the Iraq war.

There was a list of USA petitions that the USA embassy just handed over the Swedish government - to be implemented one by one through new pieces of Swedish legislation - on the issue of protecting economic interests of American corporations.

In all these revelations, as characterized by Christian Engström, a Pirate Party member of the EU Parliament , Sweden is presented as a willing  "marionette government" whose USA-loyalty goes well beyond the interest of their own Swedish nation and the integrity of its citizens.

In any other democratic country a disclosure of the caliber above would have lead to media turmoil, to constitutional accusations for something like treason, transference of information of national citizens to a foreign power, political crisis, etc. But not in Sweden. Although the aggravating disclosures, mainly published by the media abroad, the Swedish journalist hardly critically commented these reports. Only two minor political organizations - the Environmental Part and the Pirate Party - announced in soft voice political measures which at the end neither were fully carried on.

Whether the content of the above concrete exposés, mostly published in the last months of 2010, were already known in detail by the USA Foreign Office is not known. The fact is that envoys of the State Department held meetings at a high level with Swedish officials for the only purpose - as announced publicly by the government - of "warning" Sweden about the leaks and its possible impact.  What in any case it did happen during the days and weeks afterwards it was the escalating of the "legal" process of Sweden against Assange and a notably increase of the media campaign against him.

Some bloggers have speculated on whether this phenomena of Swedish journalists neglecting to report -  or avoiding to comment - highly relevant political issues [which a) bear a tremendous impact for the international stature of Sweden, particularly among Third World nations, b) are to the highest degree relevant to basic Swedish democratic institutions such as the Parliament and tangle a variety of constitutional issues, and c) entail infringements in the integrity and civil rights of the Swedish population], are a consequence of the monopolist ownership of the main media in Sweden. However, a direct censure as such from the part of the economic concern owning that media - or from political authorities in government - simply does not exist in Sweden. So, why would most of Swedish journalists behave in such uncritical fashion, to the point of negating the most intrinsic character of their profession?

2. CIA connection, or Swedish honeytrap?

War is classically defined as the continuation of politics (von Clausewitz, 1827) and intelligence operations as a part of that war. In this context honeytraps are just a political weapon in a politically motivated war campaign. And as it is informed, war was declared by some top U.S. Republican politicians to Assange and Wikileaks.  Honeytraps are of rather common use, and they are not at all a privilege of the CIA. In fact high rank CIA officers have themselves been targeted of honey traps, such as Andrew M. Warren in Alger 2010, or U.S. diplomat Kyle Hatcher - a CIA officer according to Russian newspapers - in Moscow 2009. Thus, the apparent disbelief or skepticism showed by Swedish journalists while naively disregarding this method as "incredible stories" or "absurd" - as referred in Svenska Dagbladet in an editorial on the Assange case by a Sanna Rayman ("Absurditetsnivå gredelin är passerad för länge sen", SvD 10/12-2010) - appears itself as unbelievable.

Further, each mentioning of a CIA connection of the "women" in the Assange case has been easily converted by Wikileaks detractors in detrimental for Assange's interests. The reason is simple. As the media in this case has chosen not to reveal the names of the women used in the accusation of Assange, it would not be possible to conduct any publishable investigation on the possible CIA connection of one of the women, a Cuban born émigré, as reported in an article of Gramma, the main newspaper in Cuba. Hence, the identity protection - used in Sweden discriminatorily - in this case is instrumented to inhibit research or disclosures of further political motives in the constellation of interests against Assange and Wikileaks.

World-known feminist Noemi Wolf published some days ago in The Guardian "Julian Assange's sex-crime accusers deserve to be named" with the thesis on what it is instead absurd - and unfair from the perspective of justice -  is the protection giving by the media to the women indicated as behind the accusation, through keeping their identities in anonymity. Wolf asks "Can judicial decision-making be impartial when the accused is exposed to the glare of media scrutiny and attack by the US government, while his accusers remain hidden?" (The Guardian 5/01-2011 )

Personally, I was not inclined to believe in the thesis of a Honey-trap operated by direct intervention of the CIA, among other for the reason that Sweden had demonstrated had it managed the operation Assange perfectly by its own. But then I saw this detailed information posted by the Australian-Cuban Friendship Society (8/12 2010) referring to Cuban news agencies Granma and Prensa Latina:

"After leaving Cuba, woman A worked with web sites financed by USAID and controlled by the CIA. One of these sites was Miscelánea de Cuba, run by the Cuban Alexis Gainza. Through Gainza she became linked to Swedish agencies, including Dagens Nyheter and SVT, and entered the Swedish social democrat party. Gainza is linked to the German Internationale Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte, a group linked to German and US intelligence and has some former Nazis (such as Ludwig Martin) and ex military figures (Dieter von Glahn) in its ranks. The current president of the IGFM, Martin Lessenthin, works closely with the Venezuelan opposition party Primero Justicia, led by the anti-Chavez terrorist Alejandro Peña. "

The report on that one of the women is a Cuban-born émigré who had links with organizations financed by the CIA has not been denied. What has been denied (not by the women but by lawyer Claes Borgström) is that the CIA has not involvement in the accusation for rape against Assange. The question is, why no Swedish journalist has cared to further investigate the concrete reports on the above given 7/12-2010 by Gramma (Prensa Latina), ANSA, RAI-24, The Miami Herald, etc? As I have said elsewhere, is not likely that the CIA would have been directly engaged in a honey trap to Assange, but this would not discard per se the reported involvement of one of the women with CIA-financed organizations. And that would be of value in trying to elucidate the political interests at stake.

3. Fundamentalist-feminism in Sweden may sound as a moral or religious movement in a country that share at the same time monarchy, consensus-fetishism, a highly developed democracy, and also a seemingly aversion to bad manners to which individual exotic behaviours are ascribed. But fundamentalist-feminism in Sweden is however a political movement with a political agenda and based in a political ideology. Freud aside, that is. The penetrating advance of such agenda in Sweden has resulted in that all the political parties in Sweden define themselves nowadays officially as "feminist". None has dared to say no, which would be seen as acting against "consensus", or not being "modern".

Note that these parties do not define themselves with the same explicitness "for equal rights", "gender equality", etc. The subheadings read just "feminist".  Further in the implementation of this agenda, this movement have promoted, authored, and obtained the promulgation of new legislations suitable to their ideology. In praxis, the bottom line is that it can be enough with the unilateral version of a woman - her own testimony or the testimony of her friends which have previously heard her version - to send a man to jail.  No further evidence is needed and the version of the man obviously does not count at the same level of plausibility, or credibility.

Preposterous as it could sound to international readers, that was the basic legal mechanic used by the former Swedish minister of Justice Thomas Bodström (social democrat) to obtain in 2008, working as a lawyer, the long imprisonment of a Chilean refugee accused of rape of a Swedish woman. No evidence beyond the woman owns testimony or the testimony of her friends which have previously (years back) heard her a-posteriori version. The Swedish court wrote they just found her version "credible" (Aftonbladet 12-02/2008). In fact, the accusation of rape was not put forward by the alleged victim but instead by an associate of politician Thomas Bodström.

The problem relevant to this context is that the Wikileaks revelations on Sweden lead to agreements between the Swedish government and the CIA/FBI which also traced activities performed under the time Thomas Bodström was the Swedish minister of Justice. The CIA activities in Sweden had a direct relevancy precisely to the ministry of justice, such as the so called rendition flights, in this case consisting of political refugees in Sweden taken as prisoners from Swedish custody by CIA officers and transported airborne for torture elsewhere.  The activities were condemned by EU and various international organizations of human rights, and declared illegal. The responsibility of minister Thomas Bodström in the secret arrangements arises clearer and clearer. He first denied direct involvement or knowledge of the events, but later - as noted by Margareta Zetterström (Aftonbladet 20/01-2009) - he declared in an interview in Dagens Nyheter that even if he had the information before the rendition took place "that it should not have made any difference, we would not have stopped anything".

In point of fact, the social democrat politician Thomas Bodström - which nowadays have moved to Virginia, USA , keeps a law firm in Sweden in association with another social democrat politician, the lawyer Claes Borgström - the one now accusing Julian Assange (held as main author in the initiative of Wikileaks disclosures)  of rape, in a very similar mechanic than the above. Like in the mentioned Bodström case, the alleged victim is not the one who pursued the current case by own initiative. Instead the instigator of the current case against Assange is Claes Borgström himself. He is - and not the women - the actual person who personally authored and initiated the reopening of the "rape" case. He said this himself in an interview with The Guardian:

"My own conclusion was and still is that it was a rape, so I asked for a reopening of the case, and then the investigation was reopened." (The Guardian 8/12-2010)

Further, I found extremely relevant what Thomas Bodström have boasted on his co-participation in the Assange-accusation initiative,  by stating himself in his blog "Bodströmsamhället" (from the USA, 3/12-2010) that "its is our law firm that represent the plaintiff (the women in the Assange case) through Claes Borgström" "Det är vår advokatbyrå genom Claes Borgström som är målsägandebiträde").

These two politicians are in addition fervent self-declared apostles of political feminism. They were main architects of the new legislation which enhanced the rape concept in Sweden, a measure for many characterizing Sweden as "modern", but that in praxis - according to others- would have instead thrown the justice system to a middle ages' obscurantism.

In recent months the movement has announced it shall go even further in the radicalization of such legislation. For instance, discussing recently the Assange-case in Newsmill (15/12-2010), the chairman of "Feminist Initiative" Gudrun Schyman declared that the commented law "it can be better". This would be quite fair, since the political feminists perform what any political movement is supposed to do. My contention is NOT with the advances of feminist progressive legislation - insofar they would not infringe equal rights. My point is - in the context of the Swedish case against Assange - that this seemingly phony case fits too well in the agenda of the political movement controlled by fundamentalist-feminist, and hence it is used by them for own political and ideological aims.  Conversely, the truth in the Assange case would not benefit fundamentalist-feminists.

Considering all in all, besides of vendetta recipient, the figure of Julian Assange seems to emerge from this political pandemonium as guinea pig, scapegoat and pilot-case for several reactionary political factions. For some - the superpowers and their satellite marionettes - the aim is the decimation of the political and financial impacts of Wikileaks, for others - the journalists - the liquidation of their most potent competitor in the production or transference of political news.

As for fundamentalist-feminists, the celebrity of Assange is the worldwide locomotive in which they wish to travel as free passengers while spreading the catechism of their fanatic faith.

The paradox is - and this being the main reason why I wrote these texts, and why with much sorrow - is that the Assange celebrity nowadays profited by the fanatic crusade here described, and for such ideologically-egoistic ends, was in its turn reached by Wikileaks materials and videos aimed altruistically to disclose the hyper drama of monstrous massacres of civil populations among the poorest of the world, the cold assassination of humble fathers and their miserable children, of kind mothers and their dreams, done by sadistic machine guns, fired by murderous helicopters constructed and profited by global political corporations Sweden seems so proud to be in.

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Vill gratulera Ferrada-Noli till en imponerade artikel som förutom att återge ny information om Wikileaks fallet beskriver detaljerat många av de saker som behöver rättas till i det här landet.

Permalänk | Anmäl #1 michael zand, 2011-01-11, 13:23

Detta var en av de stolligaste artiklarna hittills i Assange-ärendet. En tredjedel av artikeln uppehåller sig vid påståendet att frk A. skulle vara kubansk emigrant, en uppgift som till synes bara verkar ha förekommit i statskontrollerad kubansk press, och hennes samarbete med kubanska oppositionsgrupper.

1. Jag skulle gärna se några bevis för att frk A. skulle vara kubansk emigrant.

2. På vilket sett belastas man av att ha samarbetat med kubansk opposition (som naturligtvis beskrivs som terrorister av kubansk statsmedia)?

Observera att jag inte på något vis tar ställning i frågan om Assanges påstådda sexuella övergrepp. Jag bara konstaterar att karln verkar ha magnetisk dragningskraft på allehanda tokstollar. När Assange stöds av vänner som Marcello Ferrada-Noli m fl så lär hans advokater få dra ett tungt lass.

Permalänk | Anmäl #2 Peter OM Andersson, 2011-01-11, 13:55

Svenska MSM och kulturelit har en lång tradition att uppföra sig som en upprorisk överklass-tonåring mot pappa USA: mycket prat om oberoende och att vara goda och fritänkande som 1800-talets välgörenhetstanter men om det blir verklig fara å färde får det bli pappa som får fixa problemen. Under nästan hela kalla kriget var Sveriges kulturelit officiellt neutral och klädsamt USA-skeptiska/fientliga medan den verkliga planeringen i ett krigsfall var att få hjälp av USA. Min erfarenhet var att alla som gjorde värnplikten visste detta och tog det på djupt allvar med full lojalitet. Utanför kaserngrindarna var ”verkligheten” den motsatta, vilket jag alltid funnit schizofrent. Olof Palme var sinnebilden för denna schizofreni: USA-ätare utåt men utanför protokollet direkta kanaler till Pentagon om det skulle bli allvar. Varför skulle det vara annorlunda i det nuvarande kriget mot terrorismen? Det enda sättet Sverige kan skaffa sig effektivt skydd är naturligtvis att samarbeta med CIA och andra, men att erkänna det är märkligt nog politiskt omöjligt och stör den svenska hycklande självbilden, speciellt hos kultureliten. Vad som egentligen pågår och vilka som är nyttiga idioter i spelet om Assange vet bara få, men ”åtals”-hotet medför ju också att Assange faktiskt får fysiskt skydd till liv och lem så vem som rycker i vilka trådar är svårt att avgöra.

Permalänk | Anmäl #3 Leif LIndau, 2011-01-11, 13:56

My fellow swedes has long since lost their Viking-spirit. Swedes are not accustomed to freedom. Liberty is a non-issue. Swedes are first and foremost subjects, not citizens. Subdued by kings, church and of lately the socialdemocratic party. The current government is busy puting a new elite in power, the people is of no consequence. Media is selfserving. Resistance is futile.
We all know the strings USA pulls. We can read between the lines when the papers tells of new legislation or agreements. There is no force for liberty in sweden. Swedes do what they always have done. Go back to their homes, off the beaten tracks, into the woods. Trying to stay under the authorities radar, sustaining in selfreliance as described by 16th century vicar W. Kruse.
Freedom and liberty are the most hated words in sweden. Might is right. If you're not with the in crowd, you're out in the cold, and better stay silent.
Just a few of us dissidents dare to criticize in public whom ever is doing us wrong. Are swedes sick and tired of the wrongful things going on as mentioned in the article? Yes, of course! but we can't get rid of the problem in open elections because the politicians, the bureaucrats, the NGO:s and the media has short-circuited our democracy.

Permalänk | Anmäl #4 Mats Jangdal, 2011-01-11, 17:34

Finally, another one who has seen the light and thus been able to disclose the Big Con: USA by and through its many agents and agencies, in particular, the CIA Rules the World! And if it isn´t the US, it is the Jewish Conspiracy or Global Capitalism or some other Dark Force to whose machinations we are all subject...

Thank God for valiant scribes like the author of the present screed, whose rantings prove that the rest of us are sane. But what happened to the editors of Newsmill who let this article past the screening process? Whas it just the title of the author: "Prof em i "Folkhälsovetenskap" ? Arma folk.

Permalänk | Anmäl #5 christina wegel, 2011-01-11, 18:11

The Swedish government is not involved in the charges against Assange, that is not how the Swedish court system works. I wonder when the world will realise that Sweden is not America 2.0.

Permalänk | Anmäl #7 Karl Emil Rubertsson, 2011-01-11, 23:11

Tragiskt nog har Sverige förlorat bet lilla strå utav demokrati vi har haft. Det är numera Bilderberggruppen som styr landet och den enda anledningen till att Sverige ligger i krig för första gången på 200 år.

Men när då uppgifter om detta bedrägeri mot svenska folket uppdagas utav läckor från bland annat WikiLeaks så måste det tystas ner och med rådande rättshaveri och sexhysteri så går det att använda mot alla nästen eftersom sex närmast blivit förbjudet i Sverige numera.

De hemliga samtalen utanför riksdagen utav vissa landsförrädare med utländsk makt och kanske inte minst gengsterorganisationen Bilderberggruppen som folket inte har någon insyn i vad de sysslar med förutom att vi vet att de styr mycket i vår ekonomi och drar in oss i krig och terror.

Det är tragiskt att Assange får utstå så mycket och fullt förståeligt att han inte vill komma till Sverige när USA är ute efter honom. Sverige låter CIA flyga in och kidnappa folk här och transportera bort dem till tortyrläger så visst är det ett allvarligt hot han står inför om han utlämnas till Sverige och aldrig kan räkna med en opartisk och rättvis rättegång.

Permalänk | Anmäl #8 Mikael Forsberg, 2011-01-12, 05:49

Flickorna som anmälde Assange är vänster, kristna och feminister. Feminismen i Sverige har inte lyckats med någonting när kvinnor idag inte ens vet hur man ska göra i sängen. Det har vi tydligen inte vetat förut men med all kunskap om mäns överordning borde väl något ha hänt. Genusmaffian borde väl ha kunnat lära ut hur man ska göra vid det här laget! Hade inte tjejerna mål i munnen? Det var inget våld med. Båda lade sig frivilligt med karln och flera samlag blev följden.

Men det mest skrämmande i hela soppan är att Julian Assanges namn kom ut på en gång. Här bröts den heliga regeln i media direkt och grovt: Man ska aldrig visa någon med namn och bild innan dom fallit. Men den stackars Assange blev inte bara utskämd på vår bakgård. Hela världen fick vetskap om "dådet". Ordet rape valsas runt i alla media. Våldtäkt är ett allvarligt brott. Och komma dragande med det när inget våld varit inblandat och kvinnorna lagt sig frivilligt är en allvarlig skymf mot dom kvinnor som blir blåslagna, sönderskurna och våldtagna i världen. Skam är faktiskt uppe och går på torra land!

Mitt tips är att Assange blir frikänd för det kan väl knappast vara ett brott att ta för sig som man på livets vingliga resa när tillfälle bjuds. Män är fortfarande tuppar och kvinnor är fortfarande yra som höns när tuppen vill! Bjuder man in och viker ut sig som kvinna idag borde man stå sitt kast om det sen inte gick så bra. Varför inte helt enkelt ställa sig upp och säga Nej! Hit men inte längre! Istället för att ligga där som ett våp och inte vilja. Hur jämställt är det?

Säg nej som sagt. Så slipper ni springa till polisen flera dagar senare och polisanmäla. Hela grejen är en skam för den så kallade kvinnorörelsen. Två steg fram och tre tillbaka. Inget har med andra ord hänt för kvinnorna trots allt feministsnack. Däremot kan det bli pyrt för män framgent om Assange fälls. Med andra ord skulle man som man knappast våga sig på att stöta på en kvinna.

Permalänk | Anmäl #9 Helena Palén Olofsson, 2011-01-12, 15:49

What if.......
this is only a case about a horny guy, misreading the women he courts ? Then maybe the glorious statements from all sides of the case will look a little silly and impossible to understand when future historians try to analyse what happend.
Maybe he´s gulity, maybe he´s not. I don´t know. The only thing I know is that; if I were chosen to initiate a blow to a Mr Assange for political reason, I would have chosen an easier and more certain way of doing it instead of the rather bleak accusations of two Swedish women - accusations that´s in the greyzone of what´s considered to be rape accoridng to the Swedish law.

Permalänk | Anmäl #10 Perra Berra , 2011-01-12, 16:27

#9 Helena
Kan jag tolka ditt inlägg som att vi är eniga om att det vore fel att ge bara den ena parten rätt till ångervecka på frivilligt sex?
Tänkte att det var bäst att fråga för tydlighets skull, så inget missförstånd om konsensus råder....

Permalänk | Anmäl #11 Mats Jangdal, 2011-01-12, 16:40

Mats J: Yes! You read me right.

Permalänk | Anmäl #12 Helena Palén Olofsson, 2011-01-13, 00:39

Sweden is a corrupt country where racists and feminists rule !

Permalänk | Anmäl #13 invandrarTjej, 2011-02-12, 08:49