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In reply to the discussion: No charges ever pressed: Assange marks three years of UK detention [View all]msanthrope
(37,549 posts)do not push rape aplogia, nor do they repeatedly post the same talking points after they have been shown to be demonstrably false.
It is really only a few posters. Most of DU has sense to eschew this.
There is a reason Mr Assange has lost so much support in Britain... Where even people who have put up his bail now think he should go to Sweden and face the charges.... His legal defense to these charges was not 'Innocence' but the excerable claim that what he did did not amount to sexual assault in Great Britain.
So the rape apologists on this board are not arguing for Mr Assange's innocence.... they are arguing that the acts alleged in the warrant do not constitute sexual assault. They are arguing the disgusting claim that penetrating a sleeping woman isn't rape. They are arguing that holding a woman down and penetrating her without her consent isn't rape.
If you are going to make any OP in the future, might I suggest that it include the full text of the warrant???