SUMMARY
Göran Hägglund
Swedish Minister of Social Affairs
called Assange a 'coward' and a 'pitiful wretch'
[comment: for (rightfully) obtaining political asylum]
Göran Hägglund
Swedish Minister of Social Affairs
prejudiced Assange legal standing & smeared Assange with allegations that Assange
was afraid of:
'having "his case tried by the court"'
... yet Sweden has 'no case' to speak of
Assange has NOT been charged with any crime
& Assange has not been summoned to court
Göran Hägglund
Swedish Minister of Social Affairs
Swedish Minister of Social Affairs
asserted that Assange:
'a "scumbag" if the accusations against him were true.'
Key here is: 'if'
Note: Assange has not been convicted of any crime or even charged with one, as at the date of the Swedish politician making disgraceful, prejudicial public statements -- or since.
Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Twitter 'explanation' for why Assange cannot be questioned in London:
'You do not dictate the terms if you are a suspect. Get it?'
Sweden & UK
Ministry of Truth
TRUE CONDUCT & AGENDA
EXPOSED
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Bulk of the attacks on Assange
from journalists & prominent intelligentsia
[comment: because they do the dirty work of the state, & probably because politicians, mainstream journalists & intelligentsia rely on the patronage of the same elites]
x4 Major
Swedish newspapers
condemned Assange:
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden largest daily)
Svenska Dagbladet (major Stockholm daily)
Aftonbladet (Sweden largest tabloid)
Expressen (Sweden second-largest tabloid)
Oisín Cantwell
Columnist
Aftonbladet (Sweden largest tabloid)
"Assange as a "coward", a "creep", a "white-haired crackpot" and an "asshole" because he would rather request asylum from Ecuador than face extradition to Sweden."
[comment: ie. compliant mainstream media reaction re: politically persecuted Australian journalist obtaining (rightful) political asylum]
Johanne Hildebrandt
Yugoslavia & Afghanistan
[propagandist scribe]
Aftonbladet (Sweden largest tabloid)
" ... chimed in. "He's a paranoid retard who refuses to come to Sweden", she claimed in a recent column."
[comment: As pointed out by Assange lawyer, Sweden declined to interview Assange while he was in Sweden & subsequently failed to do so while he was in the UK (making an exception of him)]
Martin Aagård
prominent journalist
Aftonbladet (Sweden largest tabloid)
" ... called Assange an "Australian pig"."
""There are many good reasons to criticize Assange. One of them is that he's a repugnant swine", Aagård elaborated."
Martin Jönsson
Deputy editor-in-chief
Svenska Dagbladet (major Stockholm daily)
called Assange:
""paranoid querulant" who is to blame for "letting Wikileaks fall into ruins"."
"described Assange's recent speech from the balcony of Ecuador's embassy as a "megalomaniac's circus"."
[comment: it is interesting that the media circus is referred to here, when it is the Swedish authorities that leaked information to the Swedish tabloids in order to create this very media circus and press smear that Assange has been subjected to]
Dagens Nyheter
(Sweden largest daily)
editorial writer:
"also called Assange 'paranoid', and a 'querulant'."
[comment: LOL ... I think I'd be 'paranoid', too, if I had a 150-man US law enforcement team, the FBI, the US State Department, the US Department of Justice and various other US agencies intent on extraditing me re secret US Grand jury sealed indictment (legal accusation), confirmed January 2011 (here)]
Jan Guillou
well-known journalist
Sweden's most famous author
[in Aftonbladet (Sweden largest tabloid)]
"... regardless of "whether Assange is guilty or not 'he's still an unprincipled disgusting little creep", adding "and now I'm holding back"."
[comment: Yep. What a creep, exposing US (& Western) government wrongdoings & war crimes.
How dare he seek to defend himself from dodgy legal assault aimed at US extradition, based on Sweden police flimsy and suspect 'allegations'!
And, most of all, how dare the politically persecuted creep obtain political asylum from Ecuador?!]
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Jenny Strömstedt
TV journalist & news anchor
via Expressen
(Sweden second-largest tabloid)
" ... advocated that Assange should be put on display in a glass cage at Ecuador's London embassy for the next fifteen years "so that anyone willing to pay entrance can watch his aging struggles"."
[comment: being the subject of intense media attention and assault, while imprisoned without charge on flimsy Sweden 'allegations' (that come with plenty of mind-boggling regularities) is a lot like the glass cage this tabloid hack envisaged.
Coincidentally, it's to this Sweden tabloid, Expressen, that the alleged Sweden 'complainants' proposed divulging information ... information for which they expected to be paid by some source (not clear to me who was expected to make such payment)]
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Karin Olsson
Expressen
(Sweden second-largest tabloid)
"Assange is a "dodgy hacker" whom most Swedes view as "a paranoid chauvinist pig"."
[comment: yaaaawn ... Did the Sweden government issue a press directive or something, seeing these tabloid hacks are echoing the same garbage?]
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However, legal experts are not convinced by allegations of the Sweden authorities:
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Ove Bring
professor emeritus
of international law
Sweden prosecutor is without sufficient evidence to charge Assange with a crime
[ LINK Archive: https://archive.is/6Ro7S ]
Professor Ove Bring also refers to Sweden's reluctance to make an 'exception' of Assange by questioning Assange in London.
However, this is not supported by evidence that has subsequently come to light.
Sweden has an established practice of questioning parties abroad & has questioned 44 persons in UK alone, whereas it has refused to likewise question Assange in Britain.
So Sweden HAS been making an EXCEPTION of Assange, by NOT interviewing ASSANGE in London, as it interviewed the other 44 persons in UK between 2010-2015.
What is this, if not more evidence of POLITICAL PERSECUTION?
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We have subsequently learned Sweden declined to interview Assange in Britain for strategic reasons: ie to prevent Assange being able to legally defend himself while they continue the political persecution offensive, and that this strategic legal manoeuvre that apparently disregards the principles of justice, has taken place with the full cooperation of the British and on advice of the British Crown Prosecution Service.
The British Crown Prosecution Service also explicitly stated that proposed extradition of Assange is not being treated in accordance with the established norm for all others, ie "as "just another extradition request.'
Once again: political persecution of a journalist who exposed US and Western allied wrongdoings and crimes.
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Abovementioned Swedish politicians are NOT the first to attack and legally prejudice legal proceedings against Assange.
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt got straight into political interference in 2010 ( here). That's just off the top of my head. I think there have been other prejudicial statements - eg:
Cecilia Malmström
European Commissioner for Home Affairs
2012 Prejudicial Press Statement
{ USA link:
US attorney-general Eric Holder, co-author article }
Meanwhile, the array of compliant Swedish journalists and intelligentsia that yap at the heels of Assange in Swedish media, smearing him in an effort to shape negative public opinion, do the dirty work of the corrupt state that is politically persecuting a courageous Australian journalist, on behalf of their powerful US ally.
The extent they go to smear and assault Assange would be laughable, were it not so serious a consequence for him.
Take Martin Aagård, Aftonbladet, referring to him as an 'Australian pig' and thereby not only assaulting Assange, who is a target of US-Anglo led political persecution, executed by the state of Sweden, but it is also insulting all Australian nationals.
Members of the Swedish mainstream press and their mainstream Swedish media publications sound like a bunch of pitchfork waving mentally challenged hicks. But, of course, they're not: they're just butt-kissing presstitute journalists doing the dirty work of the state, probably because they pretty much share the same elite patrons as the politicians that comprise 'the state'.
Note also that this is the same Swedish press that ignores and helps cover up rape, gang-rape and mob rape of Swedish women by third world arrivals, that the Swedish and European politicians have imposed on Swedes and Europeans for decades now, in support of the agendas of their respective economic and power elites, on whose behalf the West has been (and continues to be) engaged in decades-long serial covert and open military interventions, in the Middle East and in Africa (although these interventions cannot fully explain the suicidal policies such politicians have pursued and imposed on Europeans).
And it is the same press that is covering up murder of a teenager:
Sweden Media Misrepresents Murder of Teenager in Swedish School
European Media Remains Silent
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