You can be pro-victims rights and still acknowledge the absurdity of the Assange ordeal

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78. Ny actually OVERRODE the investigator who found no basis for a crime

AFTER Wikileaks published embarrassing diplomatic cables and war crimes evidence against the US.

The women did NOT go to court, they did not press charges. No partner of Assange has pressed rape charges. The Swedish state has decided to do this on their own.

There are few, if any, cases that proceed once the "victim" decides to stop cooperating in general. In this particular case, the women involved would have to be forced onto the stand to testify about their consensual sex - its a public rape, its using them for the most grotesque political stunt, and I'm horrified any DUers believe these women should be slut shamed.

Currently its against the law to strangle someone - but people do it all the time with erotic asphyxiation. Should willing partners be prosecuted for what they've willingly done together? How about whipping someone (consensual BDSM), surely physical assault charges for your husband or wife. So you also believe that you (and the state) get to decide what's consensual in the bedroom and what's rape and you get to tell my partner that my bondage last night was really unlawful restraint, I get to testify against him and throw him in jail eh? Under the guise of obeying the "law" of course....

I'm sorry but that's disgusting. Humiliating. Degrading. Patronizing. And a sure sign of a patriarchal state.