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In reply to the discussion: So let me see if I understand the 2 biggest hot button topics on DU [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)221. Whether such a case exists or whether a trial will result in conviction is not at issue.
At issue is that Assange accepted the description of events set forth in the police interview. The finding of the appeals court on the question of dual criminality was that the offence alleged would constitute rape under English law.
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So let me see if I understand the 2 biggest hot button topics on DU [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2012
OP
+2. That's the problem, he's a "DU Hero", so now they have to try & defend the indefensible.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2012
#185
Between weed and copyright violations, I have a really hard time believing most DUers give
ZombieHorde
Aug 2012
#71
You mean people here are insufficiently enthusiastic about imprisoning pot smokers?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#153
Do you think the State of Texas was right when it was throwing gay ppl. in jail for consensual sex?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#163
Of course I am unwilling to acknowledge an objective distinction between laws.
ZombieHorde
Aug 2012
#214
Many people here, especially from the U.S. confuse U.S. and Swedish law.
Agnosticsherbet
Aug 2012
#194
"When people say, he has not been charged, they seem to use this..."
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#198
How blind do you have to be not to see the similarity in people's defenses of the two?
pnwmom
Aug 2012
#3
You, and Rush: "Limbaugh: Liberals Would “Help A Thousand Rapists” To Free “One America-Hater”"
Zorra
Aug 2012
#22
My pleasure, KoKo. I'm so tired of the constant posting of anti-Progressive RW talking points at DU.
Zorra
Aug 2012
#28
You nailed it, Zorra. I saw the name of post and knew before I read it what it would say.
October
Aug 2012
#81
Holder speaks for the existing power structure, as would the director of the CIA.
ronnie624
Aug 2012
#55
If someone was setting him up, wouldn't they have given the women much better stories?
pnwmom
Aug 2012
#16
So if he had not done these things and it was just some bloke who'd happened to get to London
treestar
Aug 2012
#62
Your're claiming 2 established female progressives are really paid whores for the PTB?
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2012
#103
You claim they are deliberately telling stories they know to be false to discredit Assange
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2012
#109
Bullshit. Plenty of people LOUDLY proclaim Obama has assassinated American citizens
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#74
Tiresome, disingenuous and a repetitive slam to DUers who read the situation differently than you
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#99
Clarified in 118, I meant to say Americans and non-Americans but if you'd like I'll go make an edit
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#126
"She". And thank you, yes, it was a general reference both to extra judicial assassinations of both
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#118
No. If you disagree with the reason, it's an "excuse"; if you agree, it's an "explanation", because
patrice
Aug 2012
#176
Except that the two issues have only very superficial similarities and your post is a uber strawman.
redgreenandblue
Aug 2012
#19
But those making excuses for Assange have non interest in discerning if a rape has been committed
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2012
#37
Everytime you complain about my characterizing your argument as an appeal to shadow governments
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2012
#225
Could you post a source, or did you just make up the "pursuant to prosecution" part
Zorra
Aug 2012
#170
OMG! It's like a Monte Python skit. He's not charged, and Sweden is not really prosecuting him,
Zorra
Aug 2012
#181
I know, but they said he did it. Slip of the tongue, or is someone presumed guilty before being
Zorra
Aug 2012
#186
Whether such a case exists or whether a trial will result in conviction is not at issue.
Spider Jerusalem
Aug 2012
#221
That context was examined and found to still constitute grounds for a charge of rape...
Spider Jerusalem
Aug 2012
#234
Since we have closed Gitmo and left Afghanistan, what else can we argue about?
AngryAmish
Aug 2012
#50
Yes, we are all appalled when charges of misdemeanors are turned into charges
sabrina 1
Aug 2012
#94
I appreciate your attempt to marginalize complex scenarios by oversimplifying them
LaydeeBug
Aug 2012
#102
Trying to read everything coming out...and parsing betwen the two or three sides..
KoKo
Aug 2012
#139
My enlisted 19 year old niece was raped by a US soldier while stationed in Germany.
cr8tvlde
Aug 2012
#142
Liberate us sexually so they won't have it available to divide and distract us.
Fire Walk With Me
Aug 2012
#145