This post a is a bit short on the facts, but high on the innuendo and vague, paranoid accusations. If anything, a familiar scene from the media hype around Wikileaks.
Whether Julian Assange is a saint or not is completely irrelevant. I know too little about the man's background to say anything sensible about that. What is clear however is that he has taken on the role of the person who gets all the shit for what Wikileaks does, and that is indeed what's happening at the moment. With the way he is being persecuted, it would be insane to lean back in our armchairs and fling unsubstantiated shit at him. Of course he's not a saint, but if the devil got treated this way, I'm sure I could think of some good things to say about him as well.
If people are trivialising rape, or entertaining the "male rights" idea that female alleged rape victims should be barraged with questions about their personal integrity, then that is wrong; but the reason people cast doubt on this case has nothing to do with that at all. What is even worse in any case is the assumption of guilt on Assange's part, which is always the more dangerous because it could see someone tried or even sent to a country where a significant amount of people support his extrajudicial execution, simply for publicly representing a website that helps publish the truth about what governments are up to.
Much has been made in the media about the supposedly "feminist" rape laws in Sweden. Perhaps someone can explain these a bit better? That kind of influence on legislation can be positive, because it can free these cases from the kind of bullshit that you sometimes see in less "feminist" countries, where the defence tries to establish the alleged victim as a "slut" or some such.
On the other hand, there should be no illusions that this somehow frees Sweden from either capitalism or patriarchy and all the effects that this has on law; and considering Sweden's participation in the imperialist world like any other country (in this case, as a covert member of NATO, an organisation that wants to carry on without scrutiny from parliaments and journalists and other nosy bastards as the cables show), "feminist" legislation can easily be used to send a perfectly innocent person to jail.
If these interests were representative of "feminism", then an "anti-feminist crusade" would certainly be in order, but let's not be silly here.
A bit of poetic license to mention him, true. But "neutral" countries that are actually subservient to US interests are really going above and beyond the call of duty with regards to Assange at the moment.
