Rape and the left: Assange, Galloway and the problem with women

[ljm2002]

39. Here we go again...

...trying to conflate Galloway with "the left", for example; or trying to argue that the only possible reason Sweden could have for wanting Julian Assange is that he is suspected of sexual misconduct, possibly rape.

Galloway is Galloway. He has a way with words, he is prominent, and his views on what may or may not constitute rape are (to say the least) misguided. I do not agree with his remarks.

Assange may have committed sexual misconduct or maybe even rape. What he also did, however, is provide a secure conduit for whistleblowers around the world to release information against the powerful of this world -- nations, militaries, corporations. By doing that he has become Public Enemy #1 for these entities, and they will chase him to the ends of the earth because of it.

When the U.K. threatened to storm the Ecuadorean embassy, they gave the game away. There is NO WAY such a threat would have been made, were the only issue one of possible rape. It simply would not have been done, had the alleged perpetrator been someone other than Assange. You know it, I know it, every thinking person knows it. Well, judging by your many posts over the last several weeks, perhaps you don't know it. But most people see clearly that this is no ordinary pursuit.

Sweden could make assurances about extradition to the U.S. but they refuse to do so. Since that is the case, and since we already know they have participated in renditions that resulted in torture -- well then, the only sensible thing for the person in question is to assume the worst. I know if I were in his shoes that is what I would assume. It's also what his lawyers assume, and what the Ecuadorean government has determined after looking over the situation.

In the meantime, the PTB are using feminism and leftist thought and trying to claim that Assange's defenders are hypocrites. But it is the PTB who have made a fair trial impossible, by refusing to make a guarantee they are very capable of making. I wonder why that would be? You'd think they would want to proceed with the judicial process rather than make an international incident out of it. And they would, IF the rape case is what they were really concerned with. Which it is not.