Julian Assange: the balcony defence (Guardian editorial)

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26. Your first link is to an unsourced claim by another DUer, to the effect that the women

involved did not want Assange charged with rape

Comment #1: An unsourced claim is useless for establishing facts

Comment #2: I have no opinion on whether Assange's accusers are credible or not. As I have indicated often before, I regard that as a matter to be resolved by the Swedish process. But if you believe that Assange's accusers do not think he should be charged with rape, that ought to help him defend himself in Sweden. Instead, you apparently believe that we ought to be especially alarmed if Assange's accusers think he is being improperly charged

Comment #3. Your theory is, by now, completely incoherent. On the one hand, you have tried, immediately upthread, to discredit Assange's accusers by parroting Assange's friend "Israel Shamir" who in August 2010 accused them of being CIA operatives. On the other hand, to assert they did not want Assange charged with rape, you must simultaneously want us to take the women at their word. You cannot flexibly have it both ways: so, which view do you actually intend to argue? Are they, or are they not, sneaky lying CIA operatives who are trying to snare Assange?