Rape allegations against Assange abruptly dropped
Did I say something in the previous post about salt and grains? And smears and dirty tricks?
Just hours after Swedish government authorities announced they were charging WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with two counts of rape and molestation, they came back and said, um, “never mind.” We didn’t mean it. Now that a character assassination against Assange has traveled the globe at lightning speed (as Mark Twain observed, a lie travels round the world before the truth can get its pants on), we’re supposed to just forget about it.
The damage, of course, is done. Millions of people will hear the original story but not the retraction, which is the whole point. Needless to say, this little incident stinks to high heaven.
Your tax dollars, hard at work. Again.