| Kasz216 said: A) That's not even remotely true. It's a crime to break a condom and not tell a woman you broke it,(as in, you broke it yourself intentionally) but it's not rape... and as a crime it doesn't carry a penalty high enough to warrant extradition. It's penalty is a minor fine. B) She was a feminist speaker, who went to a feminist orginization who got money from the CIA that wants to promote equal rights in Cuba. There isn't anything remotley suspious about that. Unless you think people should swear off civil rights causes based on funding. Considering one of the big things feminism fights against hardest is false beliefs about rape... I can't imagine a feminist going out of their way to perpetuate one of the biggest myths about rape that false accusals are common. Whatever you read, you either misread or they didn't have a firm grip about what they were writing about and just took the conspiracy line straight from the guy's lawyer. |
A) You're absolutely right: This is not rape. It's not rape by your definition, it's not rape by my definition or anyone elses. It's not rape by your or my country's law definition, but thing is: it can fall under the weird and vague definition of "rape" in swedish law (which as I already pointed out led to Sweden having the highest percentage of rape accusations in the whole world).
Assange by the way did not break any condome. As far as I know he simply refused to use one, and instead of simply saying "Well no sex then" the woman finally agreed not to use a condome. The next morning, she even brought him to the train station and bought him a ticket. When she didn't hear from him for two days, she called a female friend, and during the conversation it turned out that Assange had slept with both of them. They must have both gotten really pissed, because they decided to take revenge by going to the police to check if there isn't any crime they could charge him with.
So yes, maybe it was just a coincidence that the woman Assange stayed at in Sweden had just previously visited an organization close to the CIA. It's a bit strange (if a government only wants to fund a human rights group for ethical reasons, why let an intelligence agency handle the money transfer? It's obvious that people will get suspicious) but it could really have been just a coincidence. But that doesn't change the fact that the whole Assange rape charges are ridiculous and rather strange: Some guy being internationally searched by Europol for not wanting to use a condome. And I wouldn't be surprised if he gets deported to the USA as soon as he reaches Sweden.
