What if he did rape her? Do you know for a fact that he didn't? He should be tried as charged to see what the real facts are.
The fact is that Julian isn't charged with anything.
Two females, with whom Julian had had one night stands over a three day period got together and decided to accuse him of "
Sex by Surprise."
After being given permission to leave Sweden, prosecutors ostensibly decided later that they wanted to question Julian in the equivalent of an American Grand Jury Context.
Julian offered to testify in video formats but the prosecutor refused.
Please understand that I am sympathetic to the US State Department and their loss of a quarter million secret documents. And I am also sympathetic to the Military that saw their secret communications posted on the Web and published in the New York Times as well...
But Julian didn't steal those documents. And he wasn't responsible for the failed security.
And if anyone died as a result of those security lapses, then the people who were responsible for setting up that failed information security are responsible. Not Julian. And not the New York Times and the other newspapers that also published the documents.
My perception is that if you have ineffective computer security, set up and utilized by incompetent people, then you are likely to have issues.
For example, if you allow screwballs, like Bradley Manning, to download, burn to DVD, and distribute gigabytes and gigabytes of secret data then I think it likely that you have more serious problems than Julian Assange.
From my perspective, the real problem is ineffective computer security organized by incompetent people.
Taking Julian Assange out of circulation doesn't fix that.
Nor, does it seem likely to fix Sweden's
sex by surprise issue.
Uno