I have a question for DU ladies.

[MADem]

58. She wanted him tested for STDs, and that still has not happened.

And as for signing anything, who would want to be the "asshole" that complained about the Great Hero of the WikiLeak?

It didn't help her or her co-victim at the end of the day; their names were flung across the land.

There's a lot going on there; I wouldn't assume that any reluctance to sign had anything to do with the supposed innocence of Mister Assange--the comments they made about the guy in their official statements were creepy in the extreme, frankly and were declarations of assault, plain and simple. Even in USA, if a wife doesn't want to file a complaint against an abusive husband, the police step in now and do it with or without their "OK." Even the American police understand that these crimes have an element of shame and guilt associated with them, because the victim often excoriates themself for not preventing the crime.

Assange did misbehave -- that much is clear. The only question is, is it a minor misdemeanor, or something that would put him in Swedish prison for four years? No one will know unless and until he faces the music.

I don't think he's a very nice person, to be blunt about it.

As the sub-conversations pointed out in that link I provided to you, even Sandusky's victims continued to associate with their abuser. Not all victims can process what has happened to them in an instant. Or a month, or a year...or ten years. Look how long it took the little kids who got raped by priests to come forward and demand justice.

It's a complex issue, to be sure. I am not going to second-guess the behavior of rape victims or victims of any sexual transgressions and make assumptions that they thought everything was hunky-dory solely because they didn't do X or Y. I don't really think anyone can.


The bottom line, though, is this--even with asylum, he's in prison. In Knightsbridge, central London, with a lovely view of Harrod's right across the street--but he can't go shopping there, damn the bad luck. Perhaps he can send someone over there with a cellphone to send him streaming pics, and he can "distance shop" for the things he needs...