Assiduous Asshole Assange, would-be becoming destroyer of the Americans’ world (see end of fifth paragraph here)  has been charged in Sweden with serious sexual offences, amongst them rape (now called in Canadian law “sexual assault“).

Yet in almost all major media coverage of Triple A one gets the impression that those charges–if not trumped up at, perhaps, US government instigation (the saintly Swedes would stoop so low?)–are somehow simply a side-show.  With little bearing on how one should consider Triple A’s WikiLeaks actions.

For example, BBC World television, after reporting on Triple A’s arrest and denial of bail, had a subsequent piece today dealing with what they delicately described as his alleged “sexual misconduct” (I can’t find a BBC link with the phrase so this other one must suffice).

Now consider this, just as a thought experiment.  Canada’s very conservative Ezra Levant was a couple of years ago in a great deal of bother–and expense–with the Alberta Human Rights Commission for supposedly being in effect anti-Muslim.

If Mr Levant had at the same time been charged with serious sexual offenses by, say, Denmark, do you not think a typical story about his situation might likely have started something along these lines?

Right-wing commentator and activist Ezra Levant, who has been charged with rape by Denmark, is responding to claims that he has defamed Islam by…

The point being that the major media are doing their damndest to distance Triple A’s criminal problems from WikiLeaks itself. Which would not have been the case were the shoe on the right foot.

Mark
Ottawa