Julian Assange Gets The Bog Standard Smear Technique 1895

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The Russians call it Kompromat – the use by the state of sexual accusations to destroy a public figure. When I was attacked in this way by the government I worked for, Uzbek dissidents smiled at me, shook their heads and said “Kompromat“. They were used to it from the Soviet and Uzbek governments. They found it rather amusing to find that Western governments did it too.

Well, Julian Assange has been getting the bog standard Kompromat. I had imagined he would get something rather more spectacular, like being framed for murder and found hanging with an orange in his mouth. He deserves a better class of kompromat. If I am a whistleblower, then Julian is a veritable mighty pipe organ. Yet we just have the normal sex stuff, and very weak.

Bizarrely the offence for which Julian is wanted for questioning in Sweden was dropped from rape to sexual harassment, and then from sexual harassment to just harassment. The precise law in Swedish, as translated for me and other Sam Adams alumni by our colleague Major Frank Grevil, reads:

“He who lays hands on or by means of shooting from a firearm, throwing of stones, noise or in any other way harasses another person will be sentenced for harassment to fines or imprisonment for up to one year.”

So from rape to non-sexual something. Actually I rather like that law – if we had it here, I could have had Jack Straw locked up for a year.

Julian tells us that the first woman accuser and prime mover had worked in the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC and had been expelled from Cuba for anti-Cuban government activity, as well as the rather different persona of being a feminist lesbian who owns lesbian night clubs.

Scott Ritter and I are well known whistleblowers subsequently accused of sexual offences. A less well known whistleblower is James Cameron, another FCO employee. Almost simultaneous with my case, a number of the sexual allegations the FCO made against Cameron were identical even in wording to those the FCO initially threw at me.

Another fascinating point about kompromat is that being cleared of the allegations – as happens in virtually every case – doesn’t help, as the blackening of reputation has taken effect. In my own case I was formerly cleared of all allegations of both misconduct and gross misconduct, except for the Kafkaesque charge of having told defence witnesses of the existence of the allegations. The allegations were officially a state secret, even though it was the government who leaked them to the tabloids.

Yet, even to this day, the FCO has refused to acknowledge in public that I was in fact cleared of all charges. This is even true of the new government. A letter I wrote for my MP to pass to William Hague, complaining that the FCO was obscuring the fact that I was cleared on all charges, received a reply from a junior Conservative minister stating that the allegations were serious and had needed to be properly investigated – but still failing to acknowledge the result of the process. Nor has there been any official revelation of who originated these “serious allegations”.

Governments operate in the blackest of ways, especially when it comes to big war money and big oil money. I can see what they are doing to Julian Assange, I know what they did to me and others (another recent example – Brigadier Janis Karpinski was framed for shoplifting). In a very real sense, it makes little difference if they murdered David Kelly or terrified him into doing it himself. Telling the truth is hazardous in today’s Western political system.

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  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq

    ingo,

    Maybe you have defined your role; “it was planned and they let it happen” – maybe as the evidence permeates minds, men are finding their resolve – perhaps the time has come to call Craig before the ‘awakening’ we certainly need him – then a lawyer, a diplomat, an engineer, a writer, a veteran, an artist, a poet, two brave Scots, two brave women and a technician went forth for the third and last time.

    “You’re here because you know something. What you know, you can’t explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there. Like a splinter in your mind — driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?”

  • Larry from St. Louis

    You idiots still haven’t addressed the issue that Craig Murray thinks that you’re conspiraloons.

    Is there anyone here who generally agrees with Craig Murray’s perspective on world politics, yet believes that 19 Arab Muslims did 911? As far as I can tell, except for the few dissenters, all the people on this site are people identified by Craig Murray as conspiraloons.

    The hilarity.

  • Larry from St. Louis

    It’s time for you silly gooses to decide who you’re with –

    1) Barack Obama, a center-left American politician who came from meager circumstances to follow a merit-based path of success into the White House within the context of a 200-year-old enlightened republic; and

    2) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a mystery man who denies the existence of homosexuality in Iran, allows the bloody suppression of his opposition, believes that the Twelfth Imam will show up at any time, denies the Holocaust and apparently believes that the U.S. did 911.

    Obama thinks you conspiracy nuts are disturbing assholes. Ahmadinejad just said today that he expects the Twelfth Imam any time now.

    What team are you on?

  • someboidy

    HA!….Barack Obama, a center-left American politician who came from meager circumstances to follow a merit-based path of success into the White House within the context of a 200-year-old enlightened republic…..

    He was a creation of the Chicago Jews who are probably know to our frienly shill..

    ‘One longtime Jewish observer of the political scene, who did not want to be identified, said admiringly that “Jews made him. Wherever you look, there is a Jewish presence.” ‘

    http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/story.htm?id=252218&sid=212226

  • Suhayl Saadi

    Well, you know, Somebody, that some of the most helpful people to me – as a person and in my various forms of work – have been, and are, Jewish, in the UK and in the USA. Some of it may be because they think the work justifies it. Also, those individuals are really good people. Some of it might be because they empathise with ‘underdog immigrant narratives’. So what does all that mean?

    —————————

    The crucial questions are these: Who owns the weaponised buffing-machines? Who is the major-domo of the cleaning profession? Is the Loch Ness Monster an Al Qaeda operative? And over the past 60 years, how many millions has militarised corporatism murdered? To answer all of these questions of our time, Operation Krackpot is coming to you, anytime now! Operation Krackpot will save you, in this world, the one before and the one yet to come! Believe, believe, believe.

  • Suhayl Saadi

    In the context of the recent cranking-up of TERROR over Irish Republican and Islamist TERRORISTS, it may be instructive to consider this news report, just in from our Special TERROR Correspondent:

    “Two men with Irish accents and of Middle Eastern appearance were spotted strolling through the shopping-mall in Inverness today. They paused at a tourist store and appeared to purchase a number of small plastic, green-coloured ‘Nessie’ toys, which they placed in a large, red sports-bag. It is thought that models of the Loch Ness monster are being favoured as receptacles for plastic explosive. All sales of the Loch Ness Monster have been withdrawn as police comb the area with helicopters and Box Brownings.”

  • Ruth

    Mark,

    Thanks for Ahmadinejad’s speech. It just shows what terrible distortions we’re fed.

    I rememember one of my students being told in the USSR era that people wouldn’t want to live in the West because in the West people lived in cardboard boxes.

    Being told a group of Arabs with their basic flying skills defied the most technologically advanced country is basically even more absurd.

  • MJ

    Ahmadinejad:

    “Would it not have been sensible that first a thorough investigation should have been conducted by independent groups to conclusively identify the elements involved in the attack and then map out a rational plan to take measures against them?”

    Obama:

    “Offensive” “inexcusable” “hateful”

  • technicolour

    why ‘a group of Arabs’? Are ‘they’ more comfortable with camels or something?

    agree that Ahmajindedad says some decent sensible things, but look at the actions of his government during the last protests. ‘if you’re not with us you’re against us’ is a crazy thing, on the other hand so is pretending that ‘not the US’ is automatically preferable to the US, no?

  • Suhayl Saadi

    Mark, that’s it! Nessie dunnit. She got into the large sports holdall with the egghead gentleman concerned and then slithered out through an aperture large enough for a mutable pleisiosaur but not large enough for anyone with less dexterity than Harry Houdini (or a small, female police officer). Glad we’ve solved that one. Very neat.

    Meanwhile, Operation Krackpot is in full swing. In the overall risk management con text, it is imperative that the pertinent plexus watch all the portals to ascertain, maintain, generate and sustain constant vigilant and valiant feedback as regards what’s happening at the portals to the Highlands and Islands, that most dangerous part of the world.

    All that heather, gorse, grouse, rhododendron, whisky and of course the wild, wild weather! Cal-Mac ferries. Nubile young women in well-cut plaids.

    Suffice to say that in one way or another, come what may, in a world full of changes, nothing changes, and when the octogenarian croupier gathers up the chips, it will be seen that we are aw doomed. Doomed. Doomed.

    Except Vicky Leandros, who will continue to sing that song until the next Big Bang comes around.

  • Suhayl Saadi

    Re. the Daily Mail piece: Too many graphic pics of grieving relatives, it’s obscene and pornographic. It’s not a soap-opera. Someone has been murdered.

    Now look into the eyes of the Head of the SIS and tell me whether you can see a soul or a bottomless pit of darkness.

    So who is spreading all the disinformation, and why? Now it appears that no Henrietta Houdini WPC got into the bag, there was no red liquid, no-one was following him, there was no missing laptop and blah-blah-blah.

    So what actually did they find. Nessie? What actually is going on? Why are we being told so much information about a live murder case, so much of which is subsequently withdrawn? Is someone emptying bags of sugar across the wood in order to cover-up the real sugar-trail to what happened?

    He was assassinated by someone because of something to do with his highly-sensitive and secret work. I think most people know this to be the most likely scenario. The question, so obvious it’s banal, now – and in fact from the start – is who killed him, exactly how, and why. And why is it being obfuscated, what is being concealed here? What will knowledge of the answers to these questions reveal?

  • Ruth

    Suhayl,

    You’re really funny. I like this more serious bit too:

    ‘Suffice to say that in one way or another, come what may, in a world full of changes, nothing changes,..’

    Society has two layers, the bottom which is us who have to and are indoctrinated to abide by the rules more or less. Then there’s the top, the powerful, the greedy who break all laws against humanity to maintain their positions.

    I find it strange why there’s so little challenge.

  • Suhayl Saadi

    Ruth, thanks.

    But re. the profound statement, much as I would like to take credit for profound statements (being a profound person), I’m afraid I must defer in this case to the lovely (at least, I thought she was lovely when I was 10 years old) and talented Vicky Leandros (and her songwriter), Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1972:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Leandros

    Most Unlikely Statements in the History of the World:

    Barack Obama, at UN HQ:

    “Eh, Ahmedinejad, bro, how ’bout a beer?”

  • ingo

    perhaps the time has come to call Craig before the ‘awakening’ we certainly need him – then a lawyer, a diplomat, an engineer, a writer, a veteran, an artist, a poet, two brave Scots, two brave women and a technician went forth for the third and last time.

    Mark, this awakening will have many scenarios and we ought to add a couple of historians to the list.

    Writing history from the viewpoint of normal taxpaying and law abiding people who then become innocent civilian victims, killed in conflicts, wars they had no decision in.

    Hunger and de constructing societies will play a part in this awakening, so will the increasing pressures on peoples lifes from a wildly fluctuating climate.

    Not far off now.

  • Suhayl Saadi

    Interesting, re. N. Ireland. I don’t agree with everything that appears on that website, but this is short piece is seriously fascinating and to some extent accords with material from other analytical organs, such as ‘Lobster’ magazine and others:

    http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2010/08/spooks-active-in-ireland.html

    Any thoughts? Nextus, sandcrab, anyone else? Give us the low-down, if you can.

    I’ve often thought that cover UK state activity in N. Ireland provides a template for such activities elsewhere and in other fields of action, including in that of domestic Islamist terrorism.

    Perhaps, then, Operation Krackpot would do better to turn its surveillance cameras on two large buildings situated on opposite banks of old River Thames.

    But that, of course, would be both oxymoronic and a tautology.

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