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Bonobo

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1. You're right. There is no need to discredit the women who didn't accuse him of rape.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Aug 30, 2012, 02:27 AM

Aug 2012

But while I think it would be rape to penetrate a woman while she is sleeping if she is not willing, I think, in this case, her willingness was implied to him by asking him if he had STDs and then continuing to have sex with him after she woke up.

No where in her statement did she say she was having sex against her will.

No one says the women are lying. In fact it is THEIR statements and not Assange's that convince me that the charges are crap.

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Rushing to discredit his two women accusers is wrong way to protect Wikileaks founder. [View all] struggle4progress Aug 2012 OP

You're right. There is no need to discredit the women who didn't accuse him of rape. Bonobo Aug 2012 #1

Swedish court ordered arrest. Assange appealed that in Swedish court and lost. He was arrested in UK struggle4progress Aug 2012 #3

Letting him go on is not the same thing as consenting in the first place. Spider Jerusalem Aug 2012 #4

Thank you for posting that. She speaks what I've been thinking but couldn't put into words. Zalatix Aug 2012 #2