Don't believe the hype.
After seeing folks like Michael Moore being forced to give the compulsory "these charges are serious charges" statement, let's make one thing clear:
Rape is serious business. A broken condom is not rape, nor it is personal information that the rest of the world necessarily needs to hear about in excruciating detail.
The two 'victims' are not accusing Assange of rape.
Assange's response:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/...
my response to FISHGREASE:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
People who are ok with murdering assange----> http://www.peopleokwithmurderingassa...
Joe Biden: Assange is like a "hi tech terrorist"--->http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/19/assange-high-tech-terrorist-biden
Also, I just got a text message from Bristol palin. It reads: 'SEE! THIS IS PROOF THAT ONLY ABSTINENCE WORKS!!! CONDOMS CAN BREAK!!! '
I have stated on this site in prior comments that it's great that you can go after someone in court in some European countries for STD's. Good for them.
It is, however, pretty disgusting that so many in the U.S. jumped at the opportunity to discredit Assange over accusations regarding a broken condom that are being conflated with 'rape'.
Her claim was that although he had reluctantly used a condom at first, he then appeared to have ripped it. Having unprotected sex without a partner's consent can be considered a crime in Sweden.
That's the crime? I don't think 2 out of 10 Americans would actually claim to believe that anyone should be incarcerated for a broken condom, or not using one. If we did have such laws, there'd be a lot of college and post-collegiate 20-somethings facing criminal charges. (let's just say I could tell stories, but I won't embarrass my fellow millenials)
Mr Assange has also been accused of sexual assault by another young woman he slept with during his trip to Sweden.
According to him, the woman, named only as Miss W, arrived at a lunch in a revealing pink cashmere sweater, flirted with him, and took him home.
She says they had consensual sex but she woke up the next morning to find him having intercourse with her to which she had not consented.
When she asked him if he was wearing anything, he had allegedly said: "I am wearing you."
He said he believed his accusers became angry when the younger woman, Miss W, contacted Miss A and they realised he had been to bed with both of them in swift succession. They went to the police station together, apparently to seek advice. A policewoman who heard their stories is said to have suggested they could pursue criminal charges.
Mr Assange is now wanted on suspicion of rape, sexual coercion and sexual assault. It is important to him that it is known he has not yet been charged with any crime anywhere else.
Mr Assange regards himself as a victim of radicalism. "Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism," he said. "I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism."
In a nice orderly world, we could say the big bad US State dept has its hands all over this. But the truth looks to be stranger than that. As Assange humorously puts it, he is in the middle of a war, but not just the political kind....but also the war between the sexes (male and female).
Mail Online Dec 7, 2010 (4+ / 0-)
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Earlier this year, Sarah is reported to have posted a telling entry on her website, which she has since removed. But a copy has been retrieved and widely circulated on the internet.
Entitled ‘7 Steps to Legal Revenge’, it explains how women can use courts to get their own back on unfaithful lovers.
Step 7 says: ‘Go to it and keep your goal in sight. Make sure your victim suffers just as you did.’ (The highlighting of text is Sarah’s own.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...
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by jeffrey789 on Sun Dec 26, 2010 at 12:46:28 PM PST
also see last night's thread:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
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oh, the irony (5+ / 0-)
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they accuse assange of putting people in "harm's way".
robert gates says otherwise, so i would rather listen to him. He's a cool head.
and wikileaks busted out on the scene this past summer when the vid of helicopter gunning down innocents hit the web.
ALSO KNOWN AS INNOCENTS BEING HARMED.
so we can't let assange do his work....which is revealing people getting murdered in war...because if we do, someone will get murdered??
it's never been a better time to be a writer for onion/daily show/colbert.
by change the Be on Sat Dec 25, 2010 at 08:56:42 PM PST