One thing you don’t get away with for very long is embarrassing the US government. No. They don’t really like that.
Unless, of course, you work for them. If you work for the government, you can do all the embarrassing things you could think of – run the economy into the ground, choke on common foods, shoot your friends in the face, give embarrassing interviews. All of those things are fine. But if you’re endangering the military, or releasing documents contrary or pertaining to special operations that are currently underway – you suddenly become an international priority.
Such is the case with Julian Assange – who has strangely become wanted by Interpol. Internationally. For – wait for it – sex crimes. Against two Swedish women, who claimed he had sex with them that was not consensual.
If you’re looking for a reason why that’d raise international alarm bells, there’s no real good answer. Why can’t the US just say he’s wanted for leaking out scads of information? They really have to turn this into an avenging ploy where they’re saving the world from a document-leaking international rapist?
Something smells fishy. And transparent. But hey, that’s trapping international kinda-fugitives for you. One day, you’re being read about on Huffington Post, the next you’re defending yourself from charges that you forced yourself on unsuspecting people.
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