Why I am Convinced that Anna Ardin is a Liar 2008

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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.

Anna tweets at 14.00:

‘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.

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  • Arbed

    Here’s a better one, Jemand – by AFP in the Ecuadorian embassy. Very short – only a couple of minutes – but an extremely clear message about the NSA/PRISM revelations and its connection with the precedent the US Govt is attempting in Bradley Manning’s trial:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgZuAYiPArw

  • Jemand

    Arbed, thanks for the link. I think this precedent that JA speaks of is an option the US Gov seeks in order to allow it to selectively prosecute publishers (fringe US and foreign media) that fall outside the well managed and compliant mainstream US media. Majors like the NY Times and Wash Post will always be safe, provided that they stick to sanitised versions of breaking stories.

  • John Goss

    Thanks Abc for including the link. Actually if you click on the highlighted blue name under my photo it also brings up my blog. Arbed points out “all plaintiffs cases are funded by the state” but the question is, assume this was not political, would an ordinary Swedish woman have access to the prime minister’s family lawyer in a complaint against a non-celebrity who was accused but not charged with any offence? That is one other reason why this case can only ever be seen as political, and why the Ecuadorian embassy should never throw Julian Assange to the Swedish wolves before being transferred to their US vampire masters.

    As to her email address as a form of contact, I did consider it, as a journalist, to ask if she would do an interview. After some consideration I dismissed the idea as being impractical. Her legal team will have told her not to speak to anybody, particularly journalists. In fact that email address may no longer go directly to her. As Arbed points out her opinions at the time are considerably at odds with what Elisabeth Massi Fritz says they are now. Of course to have any credibility whatsoever they would need to be much stronger. Lawyers are not beyond putting words into a client’s mouth. The person to ask is Elisabeth Massi Fritz. But she won’t give us an answer.

  • axel

    @Abc and John,
    Thanks for the links. I don’t know much about her previous clients. She does not only take rich people. But her cases are often high profile.

    http://www.advokatfritz.com/

    Good luck with trying to interview her. I am convinced she wants to be known internationally.

  • duqu

    Re: John Goss and Sofia Wilen.

    I read your blog just now, there is one error, when you are a victim of a rape-crime, the state sponsors you with a lawyer of your choice, but the lawyer must have a fixed fee in this matter. Further more , the prosecutor is in a way the victims laywer so an additional lawyer is usually just a talking head cashing in money on the taxpayers expense.

    But the info of http://www.saatchi.se/‎ was interesting and a good job from you.

    best regards¨
    Duqu

  • Arbed

    Hi Duqu,

    Very best of luck in your endeavours, and thank you so much. I have been enjoying watching your ever-changing avatar. It is fascinating and I have not laughed so hard in ages – you naughty minx, you! 😉

    xx
    Arbed

  • John Goss

    Thanks Duqu, Axel et al, for correcting some of my misunderstandings.

    I have written to Elisabeth Massi Fritz today, to try and find out if she helped Sofia Wilen change her statement in an attempt to make it more convincing, or whether it was all Sofia’s own work. I asked a few other pertinent questions too.

  • Arbed

    Important interview with Ricardo Patino, in Spanish but significantly (I think) on the BBC World Service:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2013/06/130610_entrevista_canciller_de_ecuador_bd.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

    Ecuador’s new legal document that he’s going to present to the UK’s William Hague will apparently show that the EU Framework Directive governing EAWs does not allow an obligation to extradite (the UK’s current position) to top an obligation to protect an asylee’s human rights. Oh, and take-away quote: “it is an act of discrimination absolutely unacceptable” that Sweden refuses to take JA’s statement at the Ecuadorian embassy.

    You tell them, Ricardo!

  • ABC

    ASSANGE IN SWEDEN: KINDLE EDITION

    ‘Offering an opinion, without being familiar with the facts, is indefensible.’

    ‘What we wanted was an impartial work of reference for those researching the case, not only as it concerns Assange, but more importantly as it concerns Swedish jurisprudence. Offering an opinion in the matter without being familiar with the facts, all too common both on social media sites and with the mainstream press, is indefensible.’

    ‘So many things have come to light since this story broke. The idealistic view of Sweden simply doesn’t hold under closer scrutiny.’

    http://rixstep.com/1/20130611,00.shtml

  • Arbed

    Hat-tip to Julian Assange… 😉

    I posted a link earlier [to another thread] about a 1997 NSA patent for “machine speech transcription” and this article seems to pull out what’s particularly significant about it:

    http://rixstep.com/1/20130614,00.shtml

    The NSA patent was originally discovered by Julian Assange in 1999. The above article bears careful reading, especially by any US visitors to this blog, and especially in light of General Keith Alexander’s remarks in the Senate. He told them:

    “Intelligence officials have insisted agents do not listen in on Americans’ telephone conversations. And they maintain the internet communications surveillance programme, reportedly code-named Prism, targeted only non-Americans located outside the US.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22884566

    Yes, well he can just about get away with that porkie: Humans may not be listening to all voice calls at any one time, but the NSA machines are listening all the time.

    All the Patriot Act does is give them blanket authority for an NSA agent to intercept whoever they damn well please and don the headphones…

    And they’ve been doing it for at least 14 years.

    To clarify the above:

    It’s NOT just metadata, folks. The rolling warrant from the FISA court for Verizon records (and, presumably, every other US telecoms provider) may be for metadata but that’s in addition to what they’ve already been up to. The metadata, as this brilliant piece on Finding Paul Revere shows, is just another analysis tool in their arsenal, one that allows them to graph social relationships.

    Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere:
    http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/

  • Duqu

    Wilens new laywer Massi Fritz constructed 2 pressreleases, the 1st one is dated may 22, the 2nd is dated may 21, where the text has difference in the language of the charges agaisnt JA. A journo named Anna Sjögren constructed the pdf-file dated as may 21 that in reality was the 2nd issue, this is very close to forged docs. The full story at Flashback

  • axel

    An important difference is that version 2, created June 4 (but ante-dated to May 21) does not contain the claim that it was Sofia who wanted to report a rape.

    @John. This could be something to ask Fritz about if you get any response from her.

  • Arbed

    Thanks to Flashbackers above for the story of Wilen’s lawyer’s tricks with their press releases. Do you think this was done because they suddenly realised how damaging to Wilen’s case the first one was, ie. that it flatly contradicted her own previous testimony (also evidenced in the witness statements of her friends)?

    Meanwhile, sign and share (please):

    Avaaz petition: Interview Julian #Assange now! Sign the petition to the Swedish Director of Prosecutions
    https://twitter.com/SomersetBean/status/345325541454385154

  • Arbed

    OMG, something might be happening at last on the Swedish side. Google translated from the Swedish Prosecution Authority website, a “progress update” dated 14 June 2013 (significantly, this is only on the Swedish version of the site and not its English version):

    Status report in Assangeärendet 2013-06-14A brief progress report will be given here due to it being a lot of questions about what is happening in Assangeärendet.On 14 June 2012, the UK Supreme Court, The Supreme Court decision that Julian Assange would be handed over to Sweden in accordance with the regulations of the European arrest warrant.To handover to Sweden to be executed is required in practice to Julian Assange surrenders to British police. According to the regulations of the European arrest warrant is the transferring State (Great Britain) to notify the receiving state (Sweden) where and when to be retrieved. This assumes that the person to be handed over is available to the transferring State. Julian Assange is inside the Ecuadorian Embassy beyond the reach of British authorities.From the Swedish prosecutor’s point of view has nothing happened in the case since the decision of The Supreme Court in June last year.The prospects for closing the fileUnder the Code, an investigation be closed when there is no need to complete it. The responsible prosecutor must continuously make such judgments. One reason to shut down a criminal investigation may be that the suspect escaped or otherwise disappeared, and that there is reason to believe that he will come back. In this case there is a decision to be handed Assange from the UK under the European Arrest Warrant. He therefore expected to come to Sweden.Why can not Assange questioned in Britain?One question that often comes is why the prosecutor can not interrogate Assange in Britain. The question has been answered before, see link in the right column.Responsible prosecutor, Marianne Ny, has previously stated that she does not give interviews while the case was going on in Britain. Since the process in the UK could not be completed, it is not possible to give interviews.

    http://www.aklagare.se/Media/Nyheter/Lagesrapport-i-Assangearendet/

    That’s the first time anything at all about closing a case has been mentioned.

  • Jemand

    Arbed,

    I am pleasantly surprised that one of Oz’s conservative premiers has signed the Avaaz petition. Good for him.

  • John Goss

    Arbed, have signed the Avaaz petition and posted to Facebook. When I get a minute, probably this afternoon, I’ll start sharing.

    Axel no response from Fritz and her five working days are up at about 10 a.m. tomorrow, after which plan B will be put into operation. Thanks for the further information.

  • John Goss

    Duqu, Rixstep is so good. I see you get a mention too!

    Arbed, as regards NSA interceptions of communications of all descriptions, the UK is collecting the data of US citizens and the US collecting the data of UK citizens for 30 years. All governments put out misinformation all the time about what they are not doing, when they are, for example they have only recently admitted to killing US citizens abroad as covered in a recent piece I wrote.

    http://newsjunkiepost.com/2013/06/04/the-united-states-of-extra-judicial-murder-and-imprisonment/

    Bob Cryer, former MP for Keighley, and a former teacher of mine, was asking in the House of Commons in 1994 why we (the UK) have a US telephone-tapping station at Menwith Hill which has no parliamentary consent. He likened it to the pervert in a raincoat peeping in at the keyhole. 17 days later he was dead in a car accident. A rather convenient death don’t you think? Bob Cryer has gone but Menwith Hill is still there. There will be an annual protest on July 4th outside Menwith Hill, an “Independence from America Day” and I shall be there, not least to show my respect for Bob.

  • axel

    John, Rixstep is good but sometimes they are too much in a hurry. They publish both statements by Massi Fritz here. But they mix up which was first and which was the second.
    http://rixstep.com/1/20130614,01.shtml

    The first released statement is the one to the right, containing the information that Sofia herself reported a rape. The statement to the left is released later (June 4th) and ante-dated to May 21st. The claim that Sofia herself reported to the police is gone in this version.

    Why is it gone in the second statement? Perhaps, and this is only my guess, this changed the perception of Sofia in many people’s eyes. Sofia herself might have objected.

  • John Goss

    Axel, thanks for that comment. Sometimes we all behave impetuously in search of the truth. Before I read it I wrote to Ms Massi Fritz asking her to clarify which message was released by whom when. However, as she did not respond to my last email I publish it here first though I have let others have copies before.

    “Dear Ms Fritz

    As the legal representative of Sofia Wilen would you please be good enough to answer some questions about the how the Swedish legal system works with regard to this high-profile case? I notice you have been talking to the press a lot more than Claes Borgstrom ever did. As a journalist I welcome that.

    Has Sofia Wilen been advised to change her lawyer because it has been revealed that Borgstrom’s firm and Sweden’s ambassador to Australia, Mr Sven Olof Petersson, were implicated by having knowledge of the rendition and torture of Egyptians from Sweden Mr Ahmed Agiza and Mr Muhammed al-Zery? Through this revelation Mr Borgstrom has been discredited as much as his other client Anna Ardin with deleted tweets and her deleted blog about seven legal steps to revenge against men who dump their lovers. So I realise that Sofia is the only plaintiff with any degree of credibility.

    I, and many others, believe this case is more about politics, and how the United States wants to stop Wikileaks telling the truth, than a personal, and what should in fact be a private affair, between two lovers. Would your client not agree with that? Would you not agree with it?

    Before these allegations Julian Assange had been around for nearly 40 years without any charge of rape or sexual misdemeanour made against him, and then, like a number 11 bus in Birmingham where I live, two come along at once. Does that not appear to be something of a coincidence to you?

    The original police statement made by Sofia Wilen, the one she did not sign, is significantly different from what you say she is saying now. In the UK we had a Dr David Kelly (sadly dead now) who told the truth that our government had ‘sexed up’ a dossier on Saddam Hussein’s capability of having weapons of mass destruction in order to take us into an illegal war. The phrase ‘sexed up’ has as much to do with sex as the Swedish word for ‘rape’ appears have to do with rape (forceful and painful penetration without consent) and what the phrase actually means is that the dossier had been embellished to make a stronger case for war. Have you, Ms Fritz, embellished or advised Sofia Wilen to embellish her original statement to make a stronger case?

    If you have embellished the statement, or helped her do it, could not the stress you say she is under actually be caused by you?

    Has your client any idea who illegally leaked the ‘rape’ story to the press? Because that’s one of the reasons I believe this is political rather than personal.

    Why do you not come to the UK to interview Julian Assange about the allegations or at least guarantee that Sweden would not extradite Assange to the US? Then it would be over for both your client and for Mr Assange, who is also suffering.

    If you answer these questions please be assured I will publish your answers. If you don’t I will just publish the questions on their own. I will forward this email letter to a trusted friend and allow you five working days to respond.

    I thank you in anticipation of your keenness to share stories with the press.

    Yours sincerely,

    John Goss”

  • Jemand

    John, yes. Jemima Khan will be terribly disappointed that she backed the wrong horse. Laura Poitras has a movie coming out later this year with Assange’s cooperaton. I hope we can get up some support for this film and that it succeeds for the film’s producers.

    Regarding your contact with Wilen’s lawyer, Massi Fritz, I trust you will keep her informed of the eroding support in the Anglosphere the prosecution has for their case against JA.

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