What a joke, If he is guilty of a sexual assault (I don't believe he is charged or accused of rape) his notoriety/ celebrity is his 'victims' best chance for justice.
When one thinks of the many disgusting, violent, brutally disfiguring, ofttimes repeated rapes of women and girls across the US that will never be prosecuted with more conservative elements blaming the victims (who are sometimes children) this is oped bearbaiting at its worst.
If he is guilty I hope he is sentenced in the full weight of the law . However his personal conduct or morality bares no relationship to the findings of the Wikileaks.
There was a time when the Black Panthers endorsed rape as a revolutionary weapon and sometimes raped each other to show dominance. This is in keeping with the Party's belief that all persons are interchangeably disposeable shadows of a higher political reality.
Unlike evil capitalism, which supposes people are unique and have property rights.
Ms. Pollitt is wrong, not everyone on the left thinks Assange is a good guy. Obviously Mrs. Clinton and the President would not defend him and I would also argue that many of us liberals also read the article "10 days in Sweden" by Nick Davies in the Guardian on December 17. 2010. I am a Southern Liberal and far from finding Mr. Assange's behavior excusable and the accusations of date rape are applicable in my limited understanding of these laws - particularly Swedish law. Nor do I find that a boys-will-be-boys defense as a sustainable argument by anyone.
The thing I found amazing was that it was completely avoidable, "A made a series of calls to him asking him to persuade Assange to take an STD test to reassure Miss W, and that Assange refused. Miss A then warned if Assange did not take a test, Miss W would go to the police. Assange had rejected this as blackmail, Harold told police" ..." Harold told police, Assange agreed to take a test, but the clinics had closed for the weekend. Miss A phoned Harold to say that she and Miss W had been to the police, who had told them that they couldn't simply tell Assange to take a test that their statements must be passed to the prosecutor. That night, the story leaked to the Swedish newspaper Expressen." It is and remains a self-inflicted wound by a callused individual who thinks himself greater than his followers. No hero.
This article shows political bias. The author assumes that it is only liberals are claiming that Assange is being railroaded. I live in Northern California and I'm hearing from rightwing Republicans, who also claim that the country is headed for an armed civil war, that the charges are being made up by the US government and the 1st Amendment is being violated.
Dear Sirs, There is a big difference between Wikileaks and the Diem Cable. The latter was a forgery. Under orders from Nixon, Chuck Colson fabricated that document to make it appear that Kennedy masterminded the murder of an American ally! If it had been genuine; why didn't Lodge keep a copy? It would be like Republicans having Maliki murdered and framing Obama for the murder! As to the rape charge. Warren Jeffs is currently behind bars because of his sex crimes. Politically correct marriages being taught to us by Mormon Mitt Romney? Chuck Colson, Newt Gingrich, Nixon, Agnew, Jeffs and Romney role models? Clifford Spencer
Katha Pollitt, who wrote this article, must have got her journalism degree in a Cracker Jack box. This article is logically weak. For example: "And everyone who believes and promotes the "information" that "Miss A" is a CIA "honeytrap" is an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier." And: "WikiLeaks is revealing information citizens need to know-it's a good thing. Assange may or may not have committed sex crimes according to Swedish law. Why is it so hard to hold those two ideas at once?" Katha, can you count?
Obviously, this was written by a woman. A woman who has absolutely NO inkling that this man is being set up and hog tied and the accusers are being coerced. This woman just wants to hang a man for a sex crime, no matter if it is justified or not. What a SAD excuse for a woman. Had it been any other person other than Assange, you would not see this reaction from the media. Why? Because EVERYBODY else in the media can see that this has all been set up, manufactured and is completely fictitious. To blatantly pretend to be ignorant of the matters surrounding this case, just to hang a man on trumped up charges of child molestation, is in itself a crime that should be punished by death. You do nobody ANY service by posting your ignorant, rhetorical trash Katha Pollitt. And, in case your are too stupid to have figured this out yet, your bimbo, idiotic, idol Sarah Palin has not been a "politician" for nearly 2 years now you blithering imbecile.
Assange contact Bradley Manning is a criminal. Here is what the "other" wiki(pedia) has "leaked" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning
Following parent's divorce, he and mother moved to Wales at age 13. "He had trouble fitting in at school in what former acquaintances have described as a troubled childhood". He dropped out of school at 16, returned to USA, worked at a pizza parlor, enlisted in Army at 18 and then committed this act. "Before being arrested, Manning had been twice reprimanded, once for assaulting a fellow soldier, and was demoted from Specialist to Private First Class".
Soldier Bradley Manning had access to weapons. Recently Army psychiatrist Maj Nidal Hasan of Fort Hood, went KRAZY, killed 12 and wounded 31. Had army put Hasan in solitary confinement, those deaths would have been prevented. It's safer to have Bradley along with Assange in solitary.
Because he got in a fight with a soldier? HAHAHAHAHA. You're an idiot! You would have 80% of the armed forces in solitary confinement following that ridiculous line of thinking. You make me laugh!
I don't give a damn what they charge him with. Just lock up the bastard and throw away the key. Maybe he didn't commit treason, but he DIDN'T HAVE TO RELEASE THOSE DOCUMENTS, that decision was soley his decision, not the Private that gave the documents to him. And for that decision and putting God only knows how many American men and women in Harms Way, put him out of his misery. As a career military Mom, whose children came back safely from Iraq and Afganhistan, I thank God every day. I would personally want to shoot the SOB myself had I lost one of my children. I've said it before and I'll say it again, had we the electronic technology in 1940 that we have today, we would all be GooseStepping. There has to be a line drawn in the sand, he released the documents, he's responsible. Bottom line he's needs to be held accountable.
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When one thinks of the many disgusting, violent, brutally disfiguring, ofttimes repeated rapes of women and girls across the US that will never be prosecuted with more conservative elements blaming the victims (who are sometimes children) this is oped bearbaiting at its worst.
If he is guilty I hope he is sentenced in the full weight of the law . However his personal conduct or morality bares no relationship to the findings of the Wikileaks.
Unlike evil capitalism, which supposes people are unique and have property rights.
I am a Southern Liberal and far from finding Mr. Assange's behavior excusable and the accusations of date rape are applicable in my limited understanding of these laws - particularly Swedish law. Nor do I find that a boys-will-be-boys defense as a sustainable argument by anyone.
The thing I found amazing was that it was completely avoidable, "A made a series of calls to him asking him to persuade Assange to take an STD test to reassure Miss W, and that Assange refused. Miss A then warned if Assange did not take a test, Miss W would go to the police. Assange had rejected this as blackmail, Harold told police" ..." Harold told police, Assange agreed to take a test, but the clinics had closed for the weekend. Miss A phoned Harold to say that she and Miss W had been to the police, who had told them that they couldn't simply tell Assange to take a test that their statements must be passed to the prosecutor. That night, the story leaked to the Swedish newspaper Expressen." It is and remains a self-inflicted wound by a callused individual who thinks himself greater than his followers. No hero.
There is a big difference between Wikileaks and the Diem Cable.
The latter was a forgery.
Under orders from Nixon, Chuck Colson fabricated that document to make it appear that Kennedy masterminded the murder of an American ally!
If it had been genuine; why didn't Lodge keep a copy?
It would be like Republicans having Maliki murdered and framing Obama for the murder!
As to the rape charge. Warren Jeffs is currently behind bars because of his sex crimes.
Politically correct marriages being taught to us by Mormon Mitt Romney?
Chuck Colson, Newt Gingrich, Nixon, Agnew, Jeffs and Romney role models?
Clifford Spencer
You do nobody ANY service by posting your ignorant, rhetorical trash Katha Pollitt.
And, in case your are too stupid to have figured this out yet, your bimbo, idiotic, idol Sarah Palin has not been a "politician" for nearly 2 years now you blithering imbecile.
Following parent's divorce, he and mother moved to Wales at age 13. "He had trouble fitting in at school in what former acquaintances have described as a troubled childhood". He dropped out of school at 16, returned to USA, worked at a pizza parlor, enlisted in Army at 18 and then committed this act. "Before being arrested, Manning had been twice reprimanded, once for assaulting a fellow soldier, and was demoted from Specialist to Private First Class".
Soldier Bradley Manning had access to weapons. Recently Army psychiatrist Maj Nidal Hasan of Fort Hood, went KRAZY, killed 12 and wounded 31. Had army put Hasan in solitary confinement, those deaths would have been prevented. It's safer to have Bradley along with Assange in solitary.