Assange and Chomsky Appear Arm-In-Arm at Ecuadorian Embassy

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118. He is a rapist in the mind of the woman assaulted

and an accused rapist according to the Swedish court. There is an arrest warrant for sexual assault in force against him. That is a matter of public record.

Here is the arrest warrant: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/20110224-Britain-Ruling-Assange-Extradition-to-Sweden.pdf

British high court rulings on Sweden's request to extradite Assange: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2849.html

Stating a fact that a person is an accused rapist is not "throwing democracy under the bus,' nor does it have a thing to do with Chomsky. It is a simple statement of fact. A court determines guilt or innocent, but Assange is held up in the embassy evading the rape investigation. That is why he has been there all these years. Those are the only charges against him and those are the charges he is evading.

I am not even minimally surprised that people make excuses for him. Such is the case with every accused rapist, whether Assange, Bill Cosby, college football players or the boys in Steubenville. It's always the same story. The men are too important, so people refuse to consider they might be guilty. Clearly fleeing from prosecution displays consciousness of guilt and can be used as evidence of such in a court of law.

I can't understand the kind of adoration with individual public figures above principle. I don't care who an accused rapist he. He needs to face justice. I hold that view whether his is RW tea bagger, Assange, or a member of my own family.