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

[pnwmom]

62. Why isn't this date rape? What do you think date rape is?

He didn't "try" to have sex with her in the morning. According to her testimony, he succeeded in penetrating her while she was sleeping. That penetration was without a condom and without her consent; both because she was unconscious, and also because -- if she had been conscious -- she would have insisted he use a condom, as she had previously. So what he did, according to the details of her story, was rape. But it wasn't "stranger rape." It was "date rape."

I agree that this will be a hard case to prove. But I don't think, as some here seem to think, that because of who Assange is Sweden shouldn't even try to prosecute this case.