(and a big thank you from Wikileaks to freefromthoughtblogs)
Wikileaks and Julian Assange have been awarded the 2011 Walkley Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism. Not as globally renowned as the Pulitzers, they are nevertheless the Australian equivalent and still an award that retains some degree of credibility and integrity (contra MTV awards or Oscars).
On one level, this is fantastic. The public, fickle as always and with the attention span of gnats, have allowed Assange to largely become the forgotten man – whilst the attacks to destroy him have in no way abated. Journalists are at least making a token effort to acknowledge the man. Any journalist that remembers their code of ethics and standards and actually still practices genuine journalism knows full well that the act of doing their job as the public’s watchdog could land them in a situation similar to Assange’s at any time. In many parts of the world, it is still one of the most dangerous occupations.
On another level, it also clearly highlights the shallowness of local print media, even amongst the supposedly high-brow broadsheets. The Sydney Morning Herald merely lists it as an award in a general list, whilst devoting an entire article to singing the praises of its own successes. The most verbose commentary comes via The Australian, with a whopping 55 words. As usual, you need to look overseas to the last of the remaining real journalists, such as Glenn Greenwald, to get any actual, deeper commentary. ABC television news also provided a few brief seconds of Assange’s acceptance speech where he once again calls out our Prime Minister as a cowering chickenshit quite happy to sell her own citizens to foreign powers if the price is right, and who contributes to gender equality by proving that females can lick US ass every bit as deeply as any mere male –
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Yet behind all of this, the majority of our citizenry is completely unaware and/or don’t give a shit at the fact that Assange has lost his latest appeal challenging extradition to Sweden for alleged “rape” charges that have caused even rape crises workers to express their disgust at political abuse and trivialisation of a brutal crime they know far too well.
Katrin Axelsson of the British organisation Women Against Rape wrote The Guardian very early in the piece, expressing her concerns about the excess of the efforts to perprosecute Assange on such flimsy grounds while so many other genuine cases fall through the cracks due to lack of resources. She also wrote a follow up piece addressing concerns about the gender hysterics that were fueling what was more and more looking like a political witch hunt. She is worth quoting at length –
Julian Assange should not become the target for expressions of fury over sexism
Katrin Axelsson
The Guardian, Friday 21 January 2011Suzanne Moore accuses Naomi Wolf of having “muddled the personal with the political” (All this polite and smiley feminism is pointless. It’s time to get angry, 15 January)…
But Moore herself is muddled. Somehow women concerned with the dangers the WikiLeaks founder faces – extradition, rendition and even execution – because of the effectiveness of WikiLeaks are “losing their heads around Assange. I picture Bianca Jagger washing his feet with her tears soon.”
By dismissing Jagger, Moore removes upholding human rights and opposing dictatorships from feminist concern. What an indictment of her feminism! In this way the nub of the question is avoided: rape allegations against Assange can no longer be disentangled from the political agenda shaping how they are dealt with. He’s become an easy target for expressions of fury and frustration at sexism…
Moore rails against the “pitiful results” achieved by “smiley” feminism which fears to be labelled as “man-haters”. She objects to “silicone implants”, “shopping” and the term “sex workers”: “We are all sex workers these days … we are all encouraged to pursue lifelong sexiness.” She says, “I want a movement.” And who does she propose? Pornography-obsessed Andrea Dworkin – “batty”, but she had “balls”. Are “balls” what women need? We thought we needed principles. Sadly they have been scarce.
The gist is clear. Axelsson is openly calling out gender feminists that are not concerned with any kind of justice, but obsessed with a political agenda that is willing to ignore all other considerations, most disturbingly basic human rights principles, in order to push their tunnel-visioned ideology at any cost. Even allowing the victims of genuine, violent sex crimes to vanish from the justice system is apparently acceptable for some apparent “greater good”, especially if it’s any of those quaint brown folks. The only feminists who’s rights and agendas need to get hammered home are those of the pudgy, pink and entitled variety.
Sweden is perhaps the best example of what happens when gender feminist rape catastrophists gain too much of a foothold in the political and legal system – and the auto da fé being carried out against Assange is the visible result. As Axelsson also notes, now that rape has been trivialised to the point that it encompasses not using a condom and drunken booby squeezes, the number of rape prosecution cases has skyrocketed while, paradoxically, the rate of successful prosecutions has actually fallen. Why? Because the court system has become clogged with Becky Watson style catastrophists opportunistically seeking either revenge or attention, and they are (thankfully) mostly spotted and dismissed by the legal system. Meanwhile, the victims of actual violent assaults see the endless line of non-victims standing before them, and many simply give up in despair and abandon their cases.
What a win. This is the real net result of the gender feminist catastrophist’s machinations. Everyone loses except the ideologues who have hijacked the stage and the microphone and can howl about the evils of the patriarchy, and earn a tidy living by restoring the fear and the shame to human sexuality that was once the exclusive reserve of the religionists. More and more the gender fem-bots become indistinguishable from Iranian clerics – especially when it comes to self-justification.
This is the territory that The Crisis Factory plays in. The Swedish model of gender lunacy – which has perverted their legal system to the point it is a Sharia court ruling on incomprehensible and arbitrary lapses in moral etiquette more than anything that actually dispenses justice – is precisely the kind nonsense that the baboon collective has been pumping out to the world 24×7 for the best part of this year since Becky Watson first began her violated nun shrieking about the Elevator Guy, who as time passes and observations collate is increasingly looking to be an outright fabrication to begin with. Certainly, evidence to confirm his existence suffers from non-existence, while the contradictions and contrary evidence keeps mounting inexorably.
Nevertheless, freefromthoughtblogs is very much in the pointless hysteria industry and is being led from one excess to another by its choirmaster PZ Myers, churning out unsubstantiated outrage after outrage –
“The problem, as we’ve seen in online behavior by the self-centered pigs, is that there’s no shortage of men (and women!) willing to form a support group for misogyny and rape culture.”
– from the rationally branded baboon board entry Predators among us, yet again dragging atheists through the mud on the basis of anonymous sociopaths somewhere, on somebodies blog, at some time, and its not really important to go into any of the details because it’s all true and they were definitely atheists, so there, and shut up you misogynist and/or gender traitor.
So freefromthoughtblogs and the Baboon King himself need to be congratulated. It is the hysteria that they are so deeply involved in promoting that has been instrumental in the destruction of Wikileaks itself. Sure, the other attacks did damage and strangled the financial lifeblood of Wikileaks, but the stake through the heart was the trumped up rape allegations. They simply would not be possible without a horde of hysterics like Myers, Marcotte, The Talking Prune and the Pudgy Pink Princess herself. They have contributed, and are still contributing, to creating the environment of derangement that has made it possible to turn Assange into a prisoner stripped of rights and effectively jailed without trial and to bring Wikileaks to a grinding halt.
This, ultimately, is the kind of bullshit PZ Myers enables. And he beats his chest like he’s a hero and a saviour and the only one that knows what’s good for you.
What a champion. So remember Wikileaks when you hear the next round of the baboons braggadocio about “free speech”. Their version of “free speech” is the same as their version of “Freethought” – anything but.
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Addendum – New light is being shed on another recent case of the kind that is enabled by baboon board gender feminist / slave moralist idiocy. The debacle that is the tale of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. There are two things that can be stated with confidence about DSK –
- He is a pretty repulsive middle-aged sleazebag (like Myers, only with achievement and substance to back it up), and
- He is not a rapist
The unfolding story is pointing more and more to a very intricate set up / sting –
What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn?
This hysteria being promoted by the maggots that choose to make a career out of victimhood has created an environment where, really, no one is safe unless they choose to blanket their entire existence with paranoia and suspicion of every person that ever crosses their path. The baboons would have us believe that this is all a “normal and healthy” state of affairs for our interpersonal relations. Apparently complete destruction of individuals is an acceptable price to pay in this holy quest for “safety”. And the baboons think comparisons to the Stasi are unfounded. Perhaps they are right. “Witch burners” may be more appropriate.
November 28, 2011 at 11:46 pm
I have a somewhat grudging admiration of Mr. Assange.
For what he hath enabled, but not perhaps for his technique in doing so.
A decidedly flawed individual[1], but with distinctly noble aims:
To “stick it up” the moneyed and corporate elite pirates & criminals who are the real tyrants and ruthless robbers of our age, ably aided by their government hacks and lackeys.
And I do not use the term “tyrant” in it’s original Greek sense:- that of a temporary government official with the power to rectify lawlessness, within narrow “democratic”[2] bounds. Which was for long considered a noble & honourable appellate resort.
No. I employ it in its modern sense: That of one (or a corporate group) who is immune from both law and long-term morality, and abuses the privilege[3].
I can strongly identify with Mr. Assange as, I expect, might you.
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[1] I am perfect and in no way flawed, of course.
[2] As much as Greek Demos can be said to be democratic, excluding, as it viciously did:
* Females
* Slaves
* Foreigners
* Criminals
* The hoi-polloi
* Non land-owners
* Non-residents
Thus eliding 99% of humans in Hellas.
[3] Literally: Private Law
November 29, 2011 at 12:00 am
Oh he’s definitely flawed. In fact, he is an outright prick, a man who contributed to his own demise via hubris and arrogance. But one thing he is not is a rapist – unless you subscribe to the deformed new definition as pushed by imbeciles like this one. He is instead a human sacrifice on the gender fem altar. Their deluded “liberalism” is doing all the hard work for the US State Department.
But who amongst the great is *not* flawed? And I mean the actual world changers, not the wannabe self-promoting harlots like Myers.
November 29, 2011 at 4:25 am
Assange has been accused of a crime, he should have his day in court. Simple.
He seemed to want the entire British legal system changed because it didn’t suit him.
Fuck that egomaniac.
November 29, 2011 at 10:55 am
See above. I never said he was a nice guy and I never said he shouldn’t have his day in court. You forget he *did* present himself to the legal system *prior* to departing Sweden and was told there was no case. Fast forward to when the US State Department promoted him to the threat status of bin Laden… and suddenly he is a “fugitive” fleeing justice. You should really look at the bigger story before making these kinds of statements. The two crucial points are –
* Sweden is the only place on earth that has sex crime legislation sufficiently broad and muddy to equate harsh words or a disrespectful look to violent rape at knife point. Anywhere else and the charges would have been thrown out of court and, possibly, the antagonists even charged for wasting police time.
* and the sheer overkill of efforts to pursue this idiocy while so much ACTUAL crime is ignored because of insufficient resources.
If you approach a Swedish court and they tell you you are free to go because the charges are nonsense, and you then go, that does not equate you to a nazi war criminal hiding out in Brazil.
Seriously. Get real.
December 2, 2011 at 5:03 am
The appeal court judge said in his summary that had he been accused of the crime here he would have been charged under English Law.
His objection to the extradition process seemed to be based on the European Arrest Warrant not applying to him because he’s a celebrity.
Also, he is spinning a story about this happening just to get him extradited to the US when it would be far easier to extradite him to the US from the UK.
December 2, 2011 at 11:28 am
You can believe whatever nonsense you please. First up, there is the chorus of lawyers who say that Sweden is the only place on earth that it is possible to frame this circus of fawning groupies gone sour as rape in the first place. Second, the repeated breaches of process, the flip flopping (“we want him charge”/”wait, no we don’t”), of Assange presenting himself to answer questions and being told to go away, would have seen it get thrown out as well, ANYWHERE EXCEPT SWEDEN where the fem-bots have entirely fucked the legal process.
What a conundrum – being caught between being a gender fem toilet slave, which necessitates supporting a legal perversion that is doing all the hard work that the US state department wants*; or wanting to defend Assange and being branded a rape apologist, misogynist and/or gender traitor. This probably shows up clearer than anything else the raw idiocy of the toxic ideology being promoted by the baboons. But then again, gender politics is a natural fit for any police state.
* – and by extension, supporting Guantanamo Bay and black prisons, perfectly in keeping with Myers other favourite princess Amanda Marcotte, who wants regular legal process suspended for gender crimes and instituting military tribunal style hearings where you are guilty by default, and remain so until the unlikely event they change their mind.
December 2, 2011 at 11:52 am
“… Amanda Marcotte, who wants regular legal process suspended for gender crimes and instituting military tribunal style hearings where you are guilty by default, and remain so until the unlikely event they change their mind.”
It is this perhaps more than anything that not only clarifies for me that Marcotte is seriously toxic, but also shows that Watson, Myers, and any of the other so-called feminists who support Marcotte are in themselves quite unequivocably the enemy of free thinking people and anyone who actually believes in legitimate human rights and democratic process.
I know slippery slopes are slippery bullshit for the most part, but Marcotte is only a small slippery slope away from Solanas’s brand of toxic feminism — which I’ve always thought of as Distaff Black Pantherism.
December 2, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Indeed. This point has not been stressed nearly enough, and in fact I can’t recall anyone else raising it. While Wikileaks may have been seriously damaged by US machinations and the financial sector choking off its oxygen, the coup de grâce was delivered by decades of pressure from the gender feminist Inquisition. Their idiocy was the stake through the heart that ultimately killed it. Without this ridiculous show trial, the organisation would have remained at least partially functional. This is another entry missing from the freefromthoughtblogs advertising brochure – “we helped kill Wikileaks in the name of Freethought”.
November 29, 2011 at 11:13 am
You might actually want to read Katrin Axelsson’s articles from the links above and actually pay attention –
i.e. “the nigger had it coming” – this is pudgy, pink and entitled gender feminism in all its glory.
This is the kind of one-eyed, exceptionalist hysteria that is exemplified by the Swedish legal system. If you have a penis, you are guilty. There is no presumption of innocence (this is the stuff that gives Marcotte a gooey wide on). .
December 5, 2011 at 10:54 pm
You’re cherry picking like fuck.
I have the same distain for rad fems as you, but this article is a fucking disgrace.
I know you like to be provocative, but spinning out shite like this ain’t helping you. It makes PZ spastic legion look almost coherent.
If you want to beat the rad fem arguement don’t write mysoginistic bullshit like.
December 5, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Can you do us a favour and at least make a token effort to make sense?
How is it cherry picking to point out a legal system that, thanks to the gender fem-bots, equates frat house boobie squeezes to Richard Ramirez victims, and that simply ignores violence against non-white chicks? I don’t need to say this. Hirsi Ali certainly has.
November 30, 2011 at 10:09 am
Franc, I really find it hard to offer any respect to the feminist writings. Even this Katrin.. look at this one by her about DSK from a while ago.. If the prosecution against DSK is dropped, the myth that women, not men, lie about rape will prevail once more
Oh.. thats a myth is it?
Look at this stupid shit reasoning..
See the red herring? Does she really expect readers to believe that the cops/courts are that stupid? DSK’s accuser lied in the immigration application by cooking up story of rape when none had really happened! And that is the relevant credibility issue here.. And Katrin conveniently leaves that out. Really.. how can feminists be taken seriously? (Rh Q)
November 30, 2011 at 12:13 pm
I was not offering a pro- or con- assessment of Axelsson. Just giving an example of an actual rape crisis worker at the coal face. Even they are calling bullshit for what it is. To underscore the point, Belgium’s first honour killing trial commenced a week ago. Did you hear anything on any baboon forums about it? No. Why? The dead chick is not pudgy, pink and entitled. Not important to the “big picture”.
November 29, 2011 at 6:20 am
Khan made the one crucial mistake. If you are a public person you should never have sex with anyone. There is probably even a risk to masturbating into the drain. Whatever the actual circumstances, the only way he could have escaped this disaster (fraud, setup whatever) was to not have his semen strewn about.
He cannot be convicted of rape, but the fact that his semen was found mixed this fluids from the maid have given the public a target. People now say … “Well, maybe he didn’t rape her, but he should not have accepted a BJ from her either! He is a scum bag.” End of career… cause even the French don’t like to think of old men having sex.
Of course, most people will claim this is a case where his power and money were used to stifle the truth and shut up the victim…. and indeed… this is the reported “common knowledge” from the media.
(Remember boys and girls…. it is always the menz fault. Women never lie or use sex for power or financial gain…. never!)
November 29, 2011 at 3:28 pm
He cannot be convicted of rape, but the fact that his semen was found mixed this fluids from the maid have given the public a target.
Yeah. Kinda like in centuries past, an old spinster found in possession of mandrake root. The superficial details change, the lynch mob mentality never does.
December 1, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Have you noticed how it is almost always the progressives who cry rape–on other progressives!? These women are right wingers, not progressives.
Dr. D.E. Cameron could not have imagined, or planned a better policy to marginalize and control the dissent of males.
They’re toxic.