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

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79. Whatever they did, they started something

A Swedish Questioning, or whatever, and the either have not dropped it, or the fact they want to drop it does not stop the system from going on. It makes perfect sense that people should not get to start the legal machinery rolling and then just at their will drop off. There's a reason that's the way that is and I've already explained that.

Many will drop a case if the witness doesn't show up, but they don't have to. For instance I have a stupid relative who while in college pressed charges for assault against some other girl who pressed countercharges against her. They both got subpoenaed to the trial. If you disregard a subpoena, there are penalties for that. They made up and didn't want to go. They wanted to "drop the charges." Found it was not so easy and that the subpoenas didn't just disappear. They were quite indignant. Maybe they learned not to play games with the cops and each other after that.