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In reply to the discussion: The Swedish Prosecutor Lied As Charged. Admits No Legal Impediment to London Interview w/Assange. [View all]BainsBane
(57,306 posts)Wikilleaks is operating. He gives interviews and statements to the press all the time. Nothing is stopping him from blogging or publishing. Even if he is convicted, Wikleaks can continue to operate. It runs now without his direction. No one is silencing him. He has chosen to evade justice for years. He is legally accused under Swedish law, as the documents in the case I have posted numerous times in this thread demonstrate. The documents show that the case is not falling apart, as you claim, but stalled because Assange has been a fugitive from justice.
Your entire argument is that people on the web think the charges are made up. What people with no connection to the case think is not evidence. In any given rape case, the accused will find all kinds of defenders, Assange all the more so because he is high profile. Justice is not based on popularity. It is based on legal evidence, something you consistently refuse to examine.
This obsequious attitude toward a rich and prominent man is really something to behold. You have no shame in demanding he be treated differently from every other defendant on earth, that he receive concierge justice, or better yet not face justice at all. After all, there is "no evidence." Sexual assault victims are nothing. Their word amounts to nothing, certainly not in comparison to the great man you are falling all over yourselves to shield from justice.
This is a profoundly antidemocratic and anti-egalitarian position, one that promotes elitism and contributes to the ability of rapists to operate with impunity. It is utterly shameful.