Wikileaks founder Assange screws over friends and supporters - leaving them on the hook to pay for bail-term violations

Former BBC journalist Vaughan Smith, who hosted Assange at his country house for more than a year as the WikiLeaks founder fought extradition, was among the nine supporters who had argued that they should not be punished for trying to “serve the public interest” in the case.

But Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle on Monday ordered them to pay 93,500 pounds ($150,000) by Nov. 6, saying that while he accepted the supporters had acted in good faith, they had failed in their “basic duty” to ensure Assange surrendered.

“They must have understood the risk and the concerns of the courts,” he said in his ruling, ordering each of the nine to pay part of 140,000 pounds ($224,300) originally pledged.

An inspirational message from George 'it's okay to hump 'em while they're sleeping' Galloway

Don't you love it when these terrorist-supporting cretins show themselves for who they really are?
                 
                   
                   
                   

Idiot British politician George Galloway says non-consensual sex with a sleeping woman isn't rape

One of his accusers, a WikiLeaks supporter, admits she had consensual sex with (Wiki-leaks founder, Julian)  Assange in August 2010 but woke the following morning to find he was having sex with her again, without using a condom.

Mr Galloway said this could not be rape, as the pair had already had sex and were ‘already in the sex game’. 

He went on: ‘It might be really bad manners not to have tapped her on the shoulder and said, “Do you mind if I do it again?”.   

‘It might be really sordid and bad sexual etiquette, but whatever else it is, it is not rape or you bankrupt the term rape of all meaning.’

Video here (start at 20 min for the relevant diatribe) 

h/t Five Feet of Fury

Naomi Wolf wants sexual assualt victims to be named

Feminist author Naomi Wolf is now arguing in Britain's socialist-leaning newspaper, The Guardian, that sex assault victims, whose identities courts have shielded for the last generation, should now be revealed.

And why this sudden turnaround?

Because Wiki-leaks Julian Assange is the subject of sexual assault charges!

Also: On rape, the left still doesn't get it

"It's been known for some time that Assange was accused of using his body weight to force sex on one woman, ignoring her demand that he use a condom, and penetrating the other woman while she slept, also without a condom, despite her wishes; yet writer after writer has treated the whole thing as a big joke. It was "sex by surprise" – some arcane Swedish thing – wrote Dave Lindorff on Truthout. Also, Assange didn't tell the second woman about the first and didn't return her phone call. Hell hath no fury like a groupie scorned.

Appearing on Keith Olbermann's show after he put up $20,000 to help bail Assange out of a British jail, Michael Moore – apparently an expert on Swedish rape law – called the case "a bunch of hooey"

Wikileaks is a Zionist plot!

It was only a matter of time before some mental case accused wikileaks of being an Israeli plot. After all, if those sneaky Zionists can train sharks to eat Egyptians while ignoring Israelis, then setting up a bogus information site that leaks government secrets poses little challenge.

According to Haaretz, Gordon Duff, an editor of the looney tune conspiracy theorist website Veterans Today, wrote "a secret deal struck between WikiLeaks' ... Assange ... with Israeli officials, which ensured that all such documents were 'removed' before the rest were made public." He then added in an interview that "it sticks out like a sore thumb that WikiLeaks is obviously concocted by an intelligence agency. It's a ham-handed action by Israel to do its public relations."


A few more nut jobs chimed in on this theme as reported by Haaretz.