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Originally Posted by Skybird

Then the Lockerbie bomber should not have been released. Same standards for all, please, no opportunistic cherry-picking. Assange is very likely subject of an intrigue, and if that is true, has all reason to worry about being arrested, because he most likely will never leave arrest again. Not necessarily because he raped someone. But because it is an intrigue.

I'm all for everyone being treated the same. That's why it wears my patience thin when somene wanted for questioning regarding sexual assault gets to hide in an embassy and foul up the justice system because he thinks he's special.

If the tinfoil hats are really needed, and the black helicopters descend upon Assange once he sets foot in Stockholm, and the allegations against have been shown to be constructed and false - then I'll be happy to say that he's been the victim of a coordinated effort. But I've seen nothing to suggest that this is the case.

The fact that he's ticked off the US and others merely means that any proceedings against him will have great media scrutiny, which doesn't in itself prove anything.

In intrigues, laws can get abused and hijacked. If laws get abused and hijacked to push an intrigue, I see no reason why to play by their rule any longer. They then have lost their legality to me.

That's a rather absolutist point of view for a situation wherein nothing has been proven one way or the other, and the evidence for what you call an intrigue is scant or contrived at best.

Considering that the whole case stinks to heaven and the Swedes have a very strange law regarding "rape" (which makes them the ideal strawman to push this intrigue on behalf probably of somebody else), this all is highly suspicious.

I guess distinctions between rape and "rape" are not just left to US Senate candidates these days.

Nevermind that the allegations don't translate to rape, more to sexual assault. Or possibly "sexual assault", depending on your point of view I guess.

Not certain, but highly suspicious. I refuse to just ignore these suspicions, but I take their high probability into account. Even more so when there are strong, overwhelming motives for certain states and actors to get Assange into their fangs - no matter how.

And these "certain states and actors" have certainly been efficient, swift, and organised in this effort. I mean, it's only taken a couple of years to get him into a nasty diplomatic messs with multiple countries, legal systems, defendants and plaintiffs, interlocking jurisdictions and levels upon levels of appeals process. Whatever plan they've got going on, it's certainly elegant.