I have absolutely no particular opinion about Mr Assange, Wikileaks or the allegations put forward against him, but this is simply not an honest objective description.



"The Swedish court system is characterized by foreseeability, fairness, humanism, and high professional quality. These are facts."



This is both dubious from a purely philosophical perspective, as well as a highly controversial statement today in regard to opinions of Swedes, both laypeople and practitioners within the legal system.



That the Earth is round is a fact, that something is fair or has high quality are NOT.



They are opinions, that will vary dependending upon comparision, perspective and in the eye of the beholder.



And if I try put some of what Marten writes into a maybe more fair and balanced perspective,



According to the offical statistics from 2011, only 52% of Swedes have high confidence in the courts, 51% in the prosecutors and only 41% in the correctional system. (NTU, Report 2012:2, "Om utsatthet, trygghet och förtroende", Bra) These are also significantly lower then corresponding measurements in the 1990s.



"The Swedish judges who may preside if Assange is brought to trial will not take orders from any government agencies, and will not be influenced by pressure from elsewhere"



In the District Courts (lowest courts) 2 of the 3 judges are "lay judges", and they ARE politically nominated, and the votes have equal value.



In a big survey of all Court of Appeal Managers in Sweden published in June 2012 in Swedens biggest morning newspaper, SVD, 6 of 10 strongly critize this system, and want it abolished. Particularly damning is the opinion, that they view the current system as legally unsafe, and that the lay judges express a political ideology in their application of the law



You can get the OP-ED here,

http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/slopa-namndemannen-i-overratterna_7254765.svd



And an further opinion piece here, by non other then Marten Schultz himselves...

http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/namndemannen-har-helt-spelat-ut-sin-roll_6736703.svd



Some "real facts" are to the contrary, that the former Chancellor of Justice, Göran Lambertz, in 2009 published an investigation named "Wrongfully convicted", that revealed serious shortcomings in the Swedish legal systems, that among many other thing found



* Inconclusive and weak evidence

* The courts overlooking outright failures in the underlying investigations.

* Insufficient examination of the plaintiffs stories

etc.



In 11 cases studied, which had lead to convictions and later appeals and acquittal, 8 were related to sexual offenses.



A summary of the Report and more details can be found here,

http://www.dagensjuridik.se/2009/11/lambertz-rattssakerhet-ar-inte-nagot-man-blir-sarskilt-popular-pa



So this was to my mind definatly not "all of the truth, and nothing but..."



And then I have not mentioned the extrajudicial deportation of two egyptian asylum seekers on the 18th Dec 2001, Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad Alzery, after a request from the CIA.



The United Nations' Human Rights Committee later found on November 10, 2006, that Sweden had violated the International Covenant on Civil an Political Rights.



One can only with stupefied astonishment witness how people from all levels of our societies, from individual activists to professionals and political representatives, on both sides of this issue seems to loose all sense of proportion, sincerity and perspective in regard to Julian Assange and Wikileaks.



Whilst one can have some degree of understanding in regard to civilian activist and supporters of JA, I do hold Marten Schultz and the political establishment to a much higher standard!