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In reply to the discussion: Are Liberals Too Eager to Believe Sex Charges Against Julian Assange? [View all]1monster
(11,045 posts)deny there was a rape, then there was no rape.
The one woman who is alleging "sex by surprise" has serious crediblity problems herself.
The other woman who only wanted Assange to take an STD test, has refused to cooperate with the Swedish police.
This isn't a case of a woman who suffers from battered woman syndrome refusing to press charges against her abuser. It is the case of a government which has refused any and all reasonable and unreasonable compromises in their quest to "question" Assange. How would it have hurt them to question Assange in the UK? Had Assange refused to surrender to the Swedish authorites after the questioning (making the unlikely assumption that Assange would incriminate himself enough to justify actual charges), Sweden then had the option to issue an International Warrant for his arrest and Assange would have been in a far weaker position than he is now.
Now the world is watching.