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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]backscatter712
(26,357 posts)Millions of pounds, so the area around the Ecuadorean embassy can be surrounded and surveilled.
An awful lot of trouble for what is, if what Assange's esteemed critics on DU say is true, a run-of-the-mill date rape.
But they don't spend millions of pounds/euros/dollars and countless man-hours of law-enforcement time on every frathead douchebag that violates a woman without consent. Just ask the victims of date rape - getting law enforcement to do anything at all makes a root canal look like a walk in the park - the way law enforcement treats rape victims is pretty awful.
But somehow, they decided that this alleged case was worth a multinational manhunt, all those countless man-hours of law-enforcement time, international attention.
Smells like a honeytrap to me.