It's Chelsea Manning who I have far more sympathy for. Somehow she's not promoted so much by Assange supporters, despite being the insider responsible for the leak and already having served in prison for it.
The Iraq war remains a moral disaster, and things have not improved on that front.
Regardless of his political leanings, he's an important journalist who ought to be celebrated for revealing some very uncomfortable facts.
That casting a critical/dismissive eye is dangerous as it means we no longer try to confirm the claim?
It’s a think grey line here: but I think charges being filed should lead to him being questioned.
We should not say though that he “definitely did it”, (or that he definitely didn’t) just that he needs to answer the claim.
In this particular case it’s “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”.
Answer the charge and be extradited.
Don’t answer the charge and be thought of by the public as guilty.
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If I had the power (and, nobody does here, don’t kid yourself) I’d like to see him sent to Sweden but with a protection about being sent to the US.
Nothing short of war will stop the US though, they are used to getting their way in ways we’re not comfortable admitting to.
Yes, it is. And we must fight such idiocy.
Of course the Swedish government are saying that it’s standard procedure to prosecute or chase prosecution if charges are brought and withdrawn. But, it doesn’t look good.
There is a debate on whether going to a « coke and prostitutes party in exchange for a role in a movie » is an act of consent or such naivety that it is unbelievable, but the immense majority were consenting adults who did take the role in the movie in exchange. But blaming it entirely on men shifts the focus of the major problem here: the number of women who want to become actresses and who are willing to compete on sexuality because they believe it’s their only asset. In other words: We haven’t succeeded as a civilization in giving women self-confidence in doing a job of science or talent, and they keep falling back on offering what they are, not what they do.
That would solve the problem in a much wider way than giving the power to women to crucify any man around them, because that makes a large percentage of men weary of working with women, and multiplies the problem of female employment. Just saying.
This is a gross mischaracterisation of how difficult it is to get rape convictions.
> We haven’t succeeded as a civilization in giving women self-confidence in doing a job of science or talent, and they keep falling back on offering what they are, not what they do.
This is a gross mischaracterisation of the pressure is applied to women to do these things.
A conviction is not necessary to severely negatively affect someone's life.
Are you noticing anything coming back over this last couple of weeks?
(note: I do not know whether Assange is pro-trump or not so I will take pjc50's word for it - seems weird though as Trump has been holding an anti-whistleblower position)
(note2: The allegations were not regarding rape but rather of intentionally breaking the condom while having an otherwise consensual sexual encounter - fun fact, this is legal in California although I personally think that it should not be)