I am slightly updating and reposting this from 2012 because the mainstream media have ensured very few people know the detail of the “case” against Julian Assange in Sweden. The UN Working Group ruled that Assange ought never to have been arrested in the UK in the first place because there is no case, and no genuine investigation. Read this and you will know why.
The other thing not widely understood is there is NO JURY in a rape trial in Sweden and it is a SECRET TRIAL. All of the evidence, all of the witnesses, are heard in secret. No public, no jury, no media. The only public part is the charging and the verdict. There is a judge and two advisers directly appointed by political parties. So you never would get to understand how plainly the case is a stitch-up. Unless you read this.
There are so many inconsistencies in Anna Ardin’s accusation of sexual assault against Julian Assange. But the key question which leaps out at me – and which strangely I have not seen asked anywhere else – is this:
Why did Anna Ardin not warn Sofia Wilen?
On 16 August, Julian Assange had sex with Sofia Wilen. Sofia had become known in the Swedish group around Assange for the shocking pink cashmere sweater she had worn in the front row of Assange’s press conference. Anna Ardin knew Assange was planning to have sex with Sofia Wilen. On 17 August, Ardin texted a friend who was looking for Assange:
“He’s not here. He’s planned to have sex with the cashmere girl every evening, but not made it. Maybe he finally found time yesterday?”
Yet Ardin later testified that just three days earlier, on 13 August, she had been sexually assaulted by Assange; an assault so serious she was willing to try (with great success) to ruin Julian Assange’s entire life. She was also to state that this assault involved enforced unprotected sex and she was concerned about HIV.
If Ardin really believed that on 13 August Assange had forced unprotected sex on her and this could have transmitted HIV, why did she make no attempt to warn Sofia Wilen that Wilen was in danger of her life? And why was Ardin discussing with Assange his desire for sex with Wilen, and texting about it to friends, with no evident disapproval or discouragement?
Ardin had Wilen’s contact details and indeed had organised her registration for the press conference. She could have warned her. But she didn’t.
Let us fit that into a very brief survey of the whole Ardin/Assange relationship. .
11 August: Assange arrives in Stockholm for a press conference organised by a branch of the Social Democratic Party.
Anna Ardin has offered her one bed flat for him to stay in as she will be away.
13 August: Ardin comes back early. She has dinner with Assange and they have consensual sex, on the first day of meeting. Ardin subsequently alleges this turned into assault by surreptitious mutilation of the condom.
14 August: Anna volunteers to act as Julian’s press secretary. She sits next to him on the dais at his press conference. Assange meets Sofia Wilen there.
‘Julian wants to go to a crayfish party, anyone have a couple of available seats tonight or tomorrow? #fb’
This attempt to find a crayfish party fails, so Ardin organises one herself for him, in a garden outside her flat. Anna and Julian seem good together. One guest hears Anna rib Assange that she thought “you had dumped me” when he got up from bed early that morning. Another offers to Anna that Julian can leave her flat and come stay with them. She replies:
“He can stay with me.”
15 August Still at the crayfish party with Julian, Anna tweets:
‘Sitting outdoors at 02:00 and hardly freezing with the world’s coolest smartest people, it’s amazing! #fb’
Julian and Anna, according to both their police testimonies, sleep again in the same single bed, and continue to do so for the next few days. Assange tells police they continue to have sex; Anna tells police they do not. That evening, Anna and Julian go together to, and leave together from, a dinner with the leadership of the Pirate Party. They again sleep in the same bed.
16 August: Julian goes to have sex with Sofia Wilen: Ardin does not warn her of potential sexual assault.
Another friend offers Anna to take over housing Julian. Anna again refuses.
20 August: After Sofia Wilen contacts her to say she is worried about STD’s including HIV after unprotected sex with Julian, Anna takes her to see Anna’s friend, fellow Social Democrat member, former colleague on the same ballot in a council election, and campaigning feminist police officer, Irmeli Krans. Ardin tells Wilen the police can compel Assange to take an HIV test. Ardin sits in throughout Wilen’s unrecorded – in breach of procedure – police interview. Krans prepares a statement accusing Assange of rape. Wilen refuses to sign it.
21 August Having heard Wilen’s interview and Krans’ statement from it, Ardin makes her own police statement alleging Assange has surreptiously had unprotected sex with her eight days previously.
Some days later: Ardin produces a broken condom to the police as evidence; but a forensic examination finds no traces of Assange’s – or anyone else’s – DNA on it, and indeed it is apparently unused.
No witness has come forward to say that Ardin complained of sexual assault by Assange before Wilen’s Ardin-arranged interview with Krans – and Wilen came forward not to complain of an assault, but enquire about STDs. Wilen refused to sign the statement alleging rape, which was drawn up by Ardin’s friend Krans in Ardin’s presence.
It is therefore plain that one of two things happened:
Either
Ardin was sexually assaulted with unprotected sex, but failed to warn Wilen when she knew Assange was going to see her in hope of sex.
Ardin also continued to host Assange, help him, appear in public and private with him, act as his press secretary, and sleep in the same bed with him, refusing repeated offers to accommodate him elsewhere, all after he assaulted her.
Or
Ardin wanted sex with Assange – from whatever motive.. She “unexpectedly” returned home early after offering him the use of her one bed flat while she was away. By her own admission, she had consensual sex with him, within hours of meeting him.
She discussed with Assange his desire for sex with Wilen, and appears at least not to have been discouraging. Hearing of Wilen’s concern about HIV after unprotected sex, she took Wilen to her campaigning feminist friend, policewoman Irmeli Krans, in order to twist Wilen’s story into a sexual assault – very easy given Sweden’s astonishing “second-wave feminism” rape laws. Wilen refused to sign.
At the police station on 20 August, Wilen texted a friend at 14.25 “did not want to put any charges against JA but the police wanted to get a grip on him.”
At 17.26 she texted that she was “shocked when they arrested JA because I only wanted him to take a test”.
The next evening at 22.22 she texted “it was the police who fabricated the charges”.
Ardin then made up her own story of sexual assault. As so many friends knew she was having sex with Assange, she could not claim non-consensual sex. So she manufactured her story to fit in with Wilen’s concerns by alleging the affair of the torn condom. But the torn condom she produced has no trace of Assange on it. It is impossible to wear a condom and not leave a DNA trace.
Conclusion
I have no difficulty in saying that I firmly believe Ardin to be a liar. For her story to be true involves acceptance of behaviour which is, in the literal sense, incredible.
Ardin’s story is of course incredibly weak, but that does not matter. Firstly, you were never supposed to see all this detail. Rape trials in Sweden are held entirely in secret. There is no jury, and the government appointed judge is flanked by assessors appointed directly by political parties. If Assange goes to Sweden, he will disappear into jail, the trial will be secret, and the next thing you will hear is that he is guilty and a rapist.
Secondly, of course, it does not matter the evidence is so weak, as just to cry rape is to tarnish a man’s reputation forever. Anna Ardin has already succeeded in ruining much of the work and life of Assange. The details of the story being pathetic is unimportant.
By crying rape, politically correct opinion falls in behind the line that it is wrong even to look at the evidence. If you are not allowed to know who the accuser is, how can you find out that she worked with CIA-funded anti-Castro groups in Havana and Miami?
Finally, to those useful idiots who claim that the way to test these matters is in court, I would say of course, you are right, we should trust the state always, fit-ups never happen, and we should absolutely condemn the disgraceful behaviour of those who campaigned for the Birmingham Six.
Anonymous supporters of Julian Assange have apparently been hacking into hospital records in Sweden, though they seem not to have targeted the ones which could reveal new information in the case:
http://www.thelocal.se/44604/20121123/
I’m trying to post the following comment to this article, without any luck so far. Wretched commenting feature is snaffled at the moment, or I’m being moderated/censored (though The Local claims comments are unmoderated):
@ Emerentia
No, I don’t understand what these Anonymous idiots thought they were doing. These hospitals have nothing to do with the Assange case. If it had been the Dandervd hospital or the Södersjukhuset hospital they hacked I could understand it, as there are genuine questions about the circumstances of Sophie Wilen’s visits to those. This extract from Guy Sim’s new book “Julian Assange in Sweden – what really happened” is talking about the alterations made to her witness statement before it was input to the police computer as the ‘official’ version six days after she made it:
“[It is impossible to detect whether these two paragraphs were changed, they were blocked out in the 20/8 version. The second paragraph especially is quite extraordinary. It means that after taking Assange to the train station and kissing him goodbye and asking him to phone her, she then went to the Södersjukhuset Hospital which has a ‘Reception for Raped Women,’ the brainchild of the former Social Democrat government, including the then Equality Ombudsman, Claes Borgström and his partner, the then Justice Minister, Thomas Bodström. This hospital is a long way from her home, she would need first to take a commuter train to Stockholm and then travel across Stockholm, as it is on the far side of that city. A journey of between one and two hours. On the other hand, it is very close to Anna Ardin’s apartment – just 900 metres (1,000 yards or 3,000 feet) – walking distance. The Danderyd hospital is also a long way from Sofia Wilén’s home, it is also in Stockholm. There was a perfectly good hospital three kilometres (two miles) from Sofia Wilén’s home, the Enköping Lasarett, it has a gynecology department but it does not have a ’Reception for Raped Women.’ A later prosecutor, Marianne Ny, was able to present the fact that Sofia Wilén had been to the ‘Reception for Raped Women’ at the Södersjukhuset Hospital as implying that she had been raped. Sofia subsequently told her friend Marie Thorn that she didn’t want to go there in the first place but was “steamrollered” into going there “by … others around her.”
There is also the question of why Wilen would choose to cut a piece out of a used condom (Yuck!) and take that with her to get it tested for HIV at the hospital instead of simply putting the whole condom into a plastic bag. That would make much more sense as it is more likely to allow a decent-sized semen sample for them to analyse. Also, the question of why she didn’t, in fact, give this piece of condom to the hospital but gave it to Anna Ardin instead. Page 38 of Guy Sim’s book:
“The piece of condom from Sofia Wilén is given the designation 2010-0201-BG20840-1, the only text not blanked out is “Produced.” The condom from Anna Ardin has the same designation except that the final digit is -2 instead of -1. The only text not blanked out is “… after enquiry by the police.” The piece of condom from Sofia Wilén was in fact produced by Anna Ardin, which means that Sofia Wilén must have given it to her. As detailed below, it is evident that Sofia Wilén must have been carrying this piece of condom around in case it helped establish whether Assange had HIV, because that was Sofia Wilén’s sole preoccupation; therefore she evidently had no intention of giving it to the police. The requisition assignment was ‘executed’ by Sara Wennerblom at 18.12 (6.12pm) on 21 August for both condoms.”
Then there is also the question of whether the fact that the forensic evidence from Sophie Wilen is a piece of used condom, instead of a whole used condom, has anything to do with these strange notes by policeman Mats Gehlin on the forensic report from SKL (page 21 of Sim’s book):
“No DNA was found on the condom from Complainant No. 2’s [Anna Ardin’s] residence. “On vaginal tops from Complainant No. 1 [Sofia Wilén] were found DNA from Complainant No. 1 [Sofia Wilén] and DNA from a man. On the piece of condom that had been found in Complainant No. 1’s apartment was found DNA from Complainant No. 1 and DNA from the same man as was found on the vaginal tops. “Complainant No. 1 [Sofia Wilén] had not noticed if any condom had been broken as it was dark in the room and when the suspect put the condom on it sounded as if he was pulling on a balloon. The piece of condom was found under the bed, under that part of the bed that the suspect lay on when he put the condom on.”
If you want to find out more Sim’s book is the best-researched and most complete account of the Assange case so far. You can download it for less than $3 here:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/233304
TLDR version of above comment:
So, Sophie Wilen has apparently also experienced a ‘damaged condom’ incident – how curiously similar to the story Anna Ardin’s allegations detail… or so it seems she has at some point told the police (Gehlin’s notes on forensic report) – and she has taken this piece of condom found under her bed to a hospital to see if they will test it for Assange’s possible HIV status. But she then decided not to hand it in to the hospital but instead give it to Anna Ardin, who in turn gives it to the police after she [Ardin] has made her own telephone statement a day after helping Wilen to make hers at the police station. But Wilen’s statement (well, the extensively altered ‘official’ version input to the police computer six days later) makes no mention at all of Wilen’s ‘damaged condom’ experience. Hmmm…
Please folks, write and say “cracking” to refer to breaking computer security; hackers are programmers, and we shouldn’t assist the propaganda campaign. It is true that a good hacker can also crack, but “locksmith” shouldn’t come to mean “safe cracker”.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cracker.html
Hi Clark,
Um, sorry about the mislabelling – I do appreciate the difference in the two terms, though I doubt readers of The Local would have.
But hurrah!, my comment at 12.25pm above DID get into the comment section of The Local… for a couple of hours…
and then, Boo!:
13:02 November 23, 2012 by Arbed
Comment removed by The Local for breach of our terms.
It did no such thing, of course [http://www.thelocal.se/terms.php?terms=Discuss]. The information I’m trying to share is being censored in Sweden.
Hmmm. . . indeed.
Something is puzzling me. It is Billy McCormac’s life before leaving the US. I cannot find a date of birth, school record, medical record. There is no reference to his age in anything written about him (Swedish or English) as far as I’m able to ascertain. Either he has something to hide – or some other interested party has something to hide.
For the tweet expert of Sweden to have no past is curious. There could be a perfectly rational explanation. But the fact that his father was a nuclear physicist exploding nuclear weapons in the air is worrying. Perhaps that is the cause of his reticence with personal history . . . shame! Don’t think so though.
I can’t think of a way of emailing him to get this information. Any ideas anyone?
OK, managed to establish that Billy’s age now is 43, so his father was about 50 when he was born. Let’s see how that helps!
Hello.
I see Mr Rudling did not answer Duqu’s questions. How could he after being put to shame by Fia’s post.
I posted the Timbro question on Flashback.
This is what I think is the “hidden agenda” of the case
http://wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Want
The name derives from the Sweden-related content of the vast collection of leaked US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks – a notable characteristic of many of the relevant cables being reducible to the general form: “The US Wants… – Sweden Wants…”.
The pdf is a timeline.
Sadly the person making this has not kept gathering data.
Best Ragards from Sweden
Wtfuk, yes, Fia’s post was very revealing. I like to think my outing of him posting as Anonymouse on the “CIA Plot Against Correa Funded by Drug Money” post made a small contribution too. Especially since Flashbackers discovered him doing the same thing on their site.
Thanks for that post on Karl Rove. Using links on that I discovered the following which relates to his assumed bi-sexuality, which if true, makes Sweden an ideal country in which to practice his other sexual interests. Are Flashback users aware of this? He allegedly had a bisexual affair just before his second marriage in June this year.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002863335
Here is another link tot he same story, with comments.
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/karl-roves-bisexual-affair-might-have.html
According to some of the comments there is suspicion that this is not true.
I couple of us doesnt believe anonymouse is Göran but fits more to one of plaintiffs.
But who knows. We sometimes have discusions via PM which is not public.
Also if Mr Rove is bisexuall would be off-topic at this Flashback-thread and render varning from moderators, might be possible sneak that info in but it seems not relevant for the case.
Best Regards from Sweden
Hi John,
Well done on your digging into Billy McCormac. I concur with Wtfuk about Anonymouse though; I think he/she is a personal friend of Anna Ardin.
Wtfuk, Arbed, of course I could be wrong about Anonymouse. However, his/her comments I believe stopped the same time as Göran Rudling stopped commenting.
I have put together a file on Billy McCormac junior (it contains mainly links to websites). Given more time I might be able to put together some kind of profile. There is little on his life before he arrived in Sweden. His father was a Freemason and it generally follows that sons of masons (Lewises) become masons themselves.
Snap, sorry to have kept you waiting so long, especially as I still don’t really know what to suggest. Have you ever tried looking through someone else’s conversation, all fragmented and sometimes not quite in sequence, with comments to other contributors interspersed? It can be very confusing. Sorry, there is so much material here with which I am unfamiliar…
I see that you haven’t submitted any comments for a while. I don’t think that Jon’s criticisms meant that you had to stop contributing; I doubt that Jon is about to start deleting or editing your comments. I suggest that you try to ignore whatever you were upset about and just carry on. I can’t really help with hurt feelings or short patience, recently having thoroughly fucked up on similar matters myself.
What is your objective? Are you just trying to understand the Assange case for yourself, or are you trying to contribute to the public analysis of events?
No one else is obliged to research in accordance with your instructions. However, if their analysis seems logically deficient to you, you have every right to point out the errors as you see them. If you think that Arbed places too much trust in Sim’s book, it is up to you to read the book and raise your objections.
My belief is that all contributors should just debate the evidence, rather than speculating about the roles or intentions of other contributors. As soon as such “second order” interpretation is invoked, things get very messy very quickly.
If it is any help, my screen-name by my avatar links to a page with some contact details for me. If anyone wishes to exchange documents, attachments etc., both parties should e-mail me. Please use the second address because it’s shorter and easier to reply from.
I can also post documents on my web space.
Sorry Snap, I know this isn’t much, but I hope it helps.
Jon or Clark, I think Arbed’s post of 22 Nov, 2012 – 1:17 pm belongs as much on the thread below as on this thread since it relates to Gottfrid Svartholm the Pirate Bay founder. But this excellent and important post by Craig Murray, which unfortunately engendered less than 100 comments, is now closed.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/gottfrid-svartholm-warg-charged-again-in-sweden/
Wtfuk, the point I was making about Karl Rove had nothing to do with his bisexuality. That’s his concern. What was wrong with it was him embarking on a homosexual relationship with Ali Akbar the same month that he got married for a second time.
“In June 2012, Karl Rove married Karen Johnson, a 45-year-old GOP lobbyist, in Austin, Texas. The couple dated for several years before getting married. The newlyweds flew to Naples on Steve Wynn’s private jet.”
He then made sweeping condemnations on Simpson, Bauer, and Siegelman on “On the Record” because he thought (wrongly) that they intended to “out” him. So you see why this is important?
Looks like Karen Johnson is Karl Rove’s third wife.
http://www.examiner.com/article/karl-rove-remarries-takes-new-pal-along-for-honeymoon
It is not how many times he marries that is the problem with Karl Rove (politically an ambassador for marriage) but it is becoming apparent to me, as it must have been to many Americans for some time, that he is the fixer behind George W. Bush’s sham election ‘success’. That was the ‘success’ that took us into war on a false premise.
Breaking News: Expressen is reporting that the Swedish Anonymous Twitter account has been closed and Anonymous is calling for a tweet-storm against the Twitter’s CEO.
http://www.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.expressen.se
Hi John,
Yes, it seems Espressen are trying to link the suspension of AoS’s twitter account to the story detailed in my 23 Nov 12.25 post. Both whether Anonymous were in fact responsible for the original ‘hack’ of hospital records and now Espressen’s attempts to pin the blame for it on AoS seem a bit suspect to me.
Did you see this latest news about judges at the Swedish SVEA Appeal Court writing up a ‘guilty’ judgment and distributing it to the court’s lay judges before the court hearing even took place?
http://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dagensjuridik.se%2F2012%2F11%2Futkast-till-fallande-dom-i-sexualbrottmal-delades&act=url
There’s a direct connection here to the Assange case. The Svea Court President Fredrik Wersäll quoted here is the guy who upheld Marianne Ny’s Swedish arrest warrant for Assange on 24 November 2010, which enabled her to write out the EAW.
Interesting that it’s this SVEA court judgment that the UK Supreme Court relied on as the independent and impartial judicial oversight required in an EAW issuing state when they heard Assange’s appeal over whether Marianne Ny should be considered a proper ‘judicial authority’ for the purposes of issuing EAWs.
Hi Arbed
Thanks. I will have a look at the SVEA appeal when I get back from walking the dogs. The story is probably similar to this.
A book is due to be released next week by Andrew Kreig. It is called Presidential Puppetry (short title) and has a quite a lot about Karl Rove’s dirty tricks. You can download a pre-election version for less than £5.00. I’ve been reading this and it is stunning. A former Democratic secretary of state and attorney general, Don Siegelman, is in prison due to Rove’s dirty tricks but they go much deeper than that. As with your story the judge was specially chosen. It stinks. At least one of you in Sweden should buy a copy because that’s what’s coming your way.
http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/andrew-kreig/presidential-puppetry/paperback/product-20518954.html
Arbed, I’ve just read the article and left a comment. How long it will be there I don’t know. It relates to the judge who presided in the Assange extradition appeal case,
“Justice Nicholas Phillips, who retired at the end of September to take up a post in Qatar for something I suspect more than £300,000 a year. But this was not before he had presided over Julian Assange’s extradition appeal, for trumped-up charges of rape. Assange lost but the decision was not made in the Supreme Court so much as in Whitehall, the gentlemen’s clubs and the upper echelons of government. Anybody who thinks otherwise is a blatant fool.”
Kreig’s book, ‘Presidential Puppetry’, linked in my previous comment, shows that the United States is probably even worse.
There’s always one lurking around the corner –
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9692984/Nanny-jailed-for-crying-rape-after-one-night-stand.html
But then you get this –
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/barbados/9700928/How-two-British-women-raped-in-Barbados-declared-their-attacker-innocent.html
Jemand, your first link at 5.56 am is like the Anna Ardin case without US involvement. Your second at 7.55 am shows the Barbados police tortured an innocent man to get a confession and are not looking for anyone else. It makes me ask is a policeman the rapist?
I’ve blogged about the Swedish Ecuadorian Embassy’s letter to the Swedish government offering for the prosecution service to interview Julian Assange in their embassy in London. I have reproduced Rixstep’s copy of this very respectful letter.
Been working on what I consider to be my best video in the Assange series. Kindly spread it. Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz1fYzCxjNk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
If the above link jams please try this. Kindly spread through Sweden. Hope Billy M doesn’t want to get me extradited for spilling the beans on his dad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz1fYzCxjNk
JG, since there are no sources to your movie, I place it in the Assange link thread instead (same sub-forum) of big-assangethread.
Text with sources would be appriciated.
good work:)
Best Regards from Sweden
Great vid, John! I’m not sure exactly what wtfuk means by “text with sources” but, if you do, it would be great to get this vid bumped into the main Flasback Assange thread.
I’ll do my best to spread it too.
Thanks Arbed.
Well the Monet story I made up. But there has to be some way Marianny Ny and Claes Borgstrom have been persuaded to take on a case that they know is flawed.
This Wtfuk is what I have:
This relates to the Siegelman imprisonment.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mimi-kennedy/don-siegelman_b_1851909.html
This obituary relates to Billy McCormac senior.
http://65.98.207.151/people?start=819
It says: “Mr. McCormac is survived by his wife, Diana McCormac; children, Norene Kallas, Candace Cowper, Lisbeth Kilkenney, Billy McCormac II and Dennis McCormac; siblings, John McCormac and Donald McCormac; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.”
This shows that Billy McCormac in Sweden is also called Billy Murray McCormac. Somebody seems to have removed this – now who would do that?
http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=city&city=Stockholm&off=10n
Anyway among Swedish donors to has made two donations of $1000 to the Democratic National Committee Services Corporation in 2009 and this year as mentioned in a post above.
http://www.yasni.com/billy+mccormac/check+people
This above gives his age as 43 when his father was 92, but his father died in 1999 aged 79 so it must give current ages.
The link below gives details of Billy Murray McCormac senior’s experiments in the upper atmosphere.
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/BAAS./0032//0001678.000.html
It should have read “Anyway among Swedish donors to the Democratic National Committee Services Corporation he made two donations of $1000 in 2009 and another $1000 this year.”