The Swiss postal system has announced that it is closing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s bank account, claiming he “provided false information regarding his place of residence” when opening the account. The money in the account, some 31,000 Euros according to WikiLeaks, will be returned to Assange, according to Postfinance spokesmen.
WikiLeaks says that the Postfinance closure was the result of a technicality, and that Assange had provided the address of his lawyer in Geneva for bank correspondence. The account was presented on the WikiLeaks site as the place to donate for the Julian Assange Defense Fund.
WikiLeaks still retains two fund-raising bank accounts which don’t appear in immediate threat of seizure, in Germany and Iceland, respectively. Last week Paypal seized WikiLeaks’ account (and according to WikiLeaks some 60,000 Euros in funds with it) claiming the whistleblower group was engaged in criminal enterprises.
Assange is facing charges for “rape” in Sweden related to allegations that condoms broke during consentual sex, and the Swedish government is seeking his extradition from Britain to face the charges.
Assange has been seeking residency in Switzerland, but US Ambassador to Switzerland Donald Beyer has warned the Swiss not to provide him shelter.
NEVER EVER use PayPal for anything serious.
They are not a trustworthy outfit.
I would not expect timely "refunding" by PayPal either.
At least the Swiss have real banks.
close your paypal accounts
I did yesterday,
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Ditto here. Sent it straight back to the account I drew it out of. Sent them a little message explaining why. Also terminate dealings with eBay and Amazon. Spread the word.
time to release some dirt on the Swiss.
" US Ambassador to Switzerland Donald Beyer has warned the Swiss not to provide him shelter "
Or else…. what? We're going to stop selling them arms? Stop sending foreign aid to Switzerland? Please. Or maybe we'll just use the personal information we stole from Swiss diplomats to blackmail them into doing our bidding.
The Swiss have been under the FedGov's orders ever since they were forced to cough up money for the Jewish World Conference's fraud-ridden Holocaust reimbursement racket. The pressure has continued with the IRS browbeating Swiss banks into opening supposedly secret bank accounts. Therefore, anyone who uses Swiss financial institutions in the expectation of privacy, or just to avoid having to subject himself or herself to obnoxious FedGov surveillance, is making a huge mistake.
Dead on. This coming from a government, the US, that authorizes theft as a matter of fact.
Note: the two women accusing Julian Assange of "sexual molestation" (not rape, at least not in their latest version) are active in the Social Democrat Party. They met and talked over their stories before going to the police. They made sure to "ask advice" at the police station, which is a way to avoid prosecution for false allegations.
The case went to the prosecutor on call, Maria Häljebo Kjellstrand, who specializes in sex cases. She used to be specialized in IT crime (another hot and modern-sounding niche) but switched to sex crimes, where it is easier for a female prosecutor without scruples to make a career out of accusing any man for anything. In a feminist country like leftist Sweden, that is easy. Kjellstrand very quickly ordered an arrest of Julian Assange for rape. The arrest order was hurried, the rape charge – for a broken condom in the first case, and for continuing sex without a condom in the other case – was astonishing. Normally a prosecutor would look things over carefully, and DEFINITELY not order an arrest for rape over such a thing. It was obvious that this was politically motivated.
The chief prosecutor Eva Finné later cancelled the arrest order for rape – which is very unusual, but it happens, when the arrest order is hurried and baseless. Another order for Assange's arrest then went out, for sexual molestation.
Who are the women? The main accuser is Anna Ardin, a Social Democrat politician and radical feminist who has written a seven-step plan on her blog for how to get revenge on someone, including public accusations to destroy his reputation. Her husband works at the Ministry of Justice. (strange how these second- and third-tier members of the Establishment are always married to each other, never to someone who works with actually producing something useful.)
Her lawyer is Claes Borgström, another Social Democrat, who in 2007 started a law firm together with Thomas Bodström, former Minister of Justice in the Social Democrat government before they lost the 2006 election. Their law firm has been involved in many Politically Correct cases – the easiest cases to win and get publicity for, if you are on the media-approved side.
In other words, this "rape" charge (much like Ahmadinejad said Israel should be "wiped off the map," as the media tell us) is a complete distortion of the truth, aimed at an enemy of the Establishment, at a point where a threat needs to be defused by baseless charges. Who cares if it never leads to anything? Who cares that Julian Assange will definitely never be convicted of "rape"? The point is that every single story about him now, 2010, has the word "rape" in it, that most vile of crimes.
He will be freed. But the immediate threat is defused. And meanwhile he is being harrassed economically, and has to hide. This is how a modern dictatorship works. Not by arrest for what you have said, but by killing a threat by a thousand cuts. The same is done with European political parties that you, dear reader, have never heard of.
Unfortunately, he will not be freed; he will be extradited to the United States on whatever charge the FedGov devises for the purpose.
Carpenter.., I think you should send your comment to the Party head of Social Democrats in sweden.., believe me they would look at it.., because they lost big this time.., I mean the election and it was their biggest lost ever.., not becaus they are not knwen political party but because they been lying to Swdedish people for years and those LADY`s that you are talking about are the reasons.., They are not a Social Democrats any more.., there is nothing that differs them from a real modernized dictatorial regime a real and working brutal system as they ever were.
here is their address. kriskommissionen@socialdemokraterna.se <kriskommissionen@socialdemokraterna.se>
Now they even promiss to be a "good aprty" if people would trust them again…?
Can you provide a link for that? You understand the counter-propaganda machine is saying the complete opposite. In fact, they have her in bed (pun intended) with the right wing nutjobs in Miami and are even dragging the Ladies in White into the mix. That's really screwed up!
Granted, everything you've said. However, the outcome is not at all clear. We are in a new era. The internet provides news means of P2P communication, coordination, and freedom of information access. The two sides — Wikileakers and their supporters vs the established order and their supporters — are now engaged in the latest battle along the historic trajectory toward greater democratization. I for one am waiting to see how the two sides "bulk up". Because the internet is global, so are the demographics. Anyway, I feel quite challenged to make any kind of prediction. I know what I hope for, but larger factors than my hope will determine the outcome.
Interesting times.
By the way, one niggling little point of personal curiosity regarding the preposterous "rape" case, with apologies beforehand for the — how shall I say it? — "silliness": Under what circumstances do condoms break? And in this case, who supplied the condom that broke? And ok, at the risk of comprehensive embarrassment, could it have been a CIA supplied condom, and does the CIA have condoms that have been engineered at taxpayer expense to fail in mid-conjugation? Forgive me.
Kudos to the Swiss banks for enforcing the law and closing the accounts of those who “provided false information regarding his place of residence” – Now, all they have to do is close the bank accounts of all those Wall Street banksters who have done the same exact thing. And, oh, yeah, keep the money, all of it. After all, they lied, cheated and stole it. We Amerikan taxpayers would gladly let you have it if you could us that tiny little favor.
Thank you Swiss banks!
I'm pessimistic about this. Against all those who claim that no one can control the Internet, etc. it's clear to me that Wikileaks and Assange are finished. Assange will probably never be freed again but rot somewhere based on all sorts of phony charges. What we are seeing is the entire One World Government machinery in action to persecute one individual and his work. As far as I know, not even the supposed anti-imperialist countries: Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Iran are offering aide here.
Jeff, condoms are like anything else. Some are good quality, some not so much. It’s one of those things that happens frequently, you just never hear about it.