It looks like the kids in Anonymous has been busy today whilst the rest of the world has been at work. As the US government has been strong arming payment companies to block payments to Wikileaks, despite Wikileaks has yet to be shown to be illegal. So the kids in Anonymous have been busy DDoSing payment companies, and notably managed PayPal, Mastercard and Visa for all blocking payments to Wikileaks.
This of course follows the US government strong arming the Swedish government to press prosecution on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange… for rape or as the definition appears to be in Sweden – not using a condom in consensual sex. It shows the credibility of the case when the two women accusing him of wanton non-usage of a condom (definition of Wanton: sexually lawless or unrestrained; loose; lascivious; lewd) – I’ll avoid using rape as it’s factually insulting to rape victims not only for the hilarity of the weakness in this case but also that they’re arguing rape when – they bragged about their ‘conquest’ of Assange. I’m sure many rape victims brag about it to their friends on twitter…
Congratulations go to Sweden, they were once the epitome of moral character for their ability to remain neutral, and were widely renowned for their mass construction of shoddy furniture and henceforth made all furniture just as mass produced and shoddy. Now they’re prosecuting people on the behalf of sluts with a political agenda. It’s still a testament to Sweden’s liberality that being a slut preclude you from being a rightwinger.
Edit: This is probably in response to Assange being arrested yesterday and currently facing extradition to Sweden. His lawyers are likely planning to argue that any extradition to Sweden will expose him to extradition to the US, despite both countries yet laying formal criminal charges.
The UK group Women Against Rape (thought I’d embed a link, give a search engine boost to a group that actually knows what rape is) questioned, in an open letter to The Guardian, the zealous nature that Assange is being pursued under. They say it’s routine in the UK for rapists to be granted bail, and it’s unusual for Sweden to be attempting extradition when – this bit doesn’t have to come from this group, it’s basically common knowledge – it has a notoriously low prosecution rate on rape that it really doesn’t need to be extraditing people when they already know they’re not going to manage to complete the prosecution.
I mean Sweden is still positively flummoxed over The Pirate Bay issue, do they really need to grab hold of the Wikileaks issue and just bury themselves further in irrelevance in the 21st century.
To any Swedes that might read this: You have 90 years to get your country to get with it and you might not be remembered as the Amish of the 21st century. Remember it’s the dutch that were technologically mis-inclined not the Swedes!