Defending Assange against sexual assault allegations

[countryjake]

291. After forty some years of standing up & fighting against political persecution...

and I mean slamming right into the sham of the system called "justice" in this country, I could give you many instances where someone deemed a "perpetrator" was railroaded into a life behind bars, without any regard whatsoever to their human rights. I am NOT a rape apologist, by any stretch of the imagination, yet I could give you instances of many cases of injustice perpetrated by courts of law in this nation, mistakenly or deliberately accusing a defendant of rape, precisely to deny a man his freedom and in certain cases, his very life.

I am not so insensitive as to be blind to the fact that where the government of the USA is concerned, justice means different things for certain elements of our population, depending upon where one sits on the totem of class, color of their skin, sexual orientation, or political persuasion. I think that it is disingenuous to speak of the victims of Steubenville in their fight to be heard and win justice in the same breath as the accusations against Assange.

One need only deliberately fuck with that high and mighty monolith of our government to see how rapidly justice's hammer will come down on you.

I've already read most of the documents that have been released in the Wikileaks case and have kept up with it since it began, noting the torturous persecution (prosecution?), brands of treason, and asylum-seeking of all those accused of interfering with the business-as-usual of the world's imperialist power.

I do not admire Julian Assange, but I wouldn't want him to end up as yet another political prisoner, either, molding away within this country's prison system. And I only feel pity for any woman who thinks that calling a cop will bring them justice.