Assange link sets Pamela on rape campaign
PAMELA Anderson, the pneumatic blonde with a heart as big as her chest, has been a fervent campaigner for animal rights and environmental issues for much of her career. But now the bombshell has a surprising new cause — helping men accused of rape.
Yesterday Anderson, speaking to the Russia Today network, criticised Sweden’s treatment on sex crime accusations. The country, she said, “has these very progressive laws against sexual crimes, whatever you want to call it — it’s almost too prog re s s ive , i t ’s almost paralysing”.
During the interview, with the Going Underground programme hosted by Afshin Rattansi, Anderson said: “I’m going to actually start campaigning for men who have been victims of being accused of rape when they haven’t actually done anything.”
A NICE little top-up of Boris Johnson’s bank balance, all the way from Hungary. The register of MPs’ financial interests has been updated and shows that the Foreign Secretary has just got a bit of a bonus: last month he received
Anderson said in 2014 that she had been molested and raped as a child, and a teenager. Her sympathy for men accused of rape may have come about in Knightsbridge recently.
The former Baywatch star has made regular visits to Julian Assange, taking the WikiLeaks founder and Ecuadorian Embassy’s writer-in-residence Pret lunches on several occasions over the past few months.
Assange is holed up in the Knightsbridge townhouse to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of sexual assault. He has been there for almost five years, in which time all but one of the accusations have passed beyond the statute of limitations. The final case will stand until 2020.
Pamela has never confirmed she is the girlfriend of Assange, who used to have his own show on the state-funded Russia Today network, but does seem to have become his advocate.
£8,544.36 for the Hungarian sub-rights and US royalties of an already written book, presumably his Winston Churchill biography. Now that he’s Foreign Secretary, surely he will be donating his earnings to charity.