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The presumption of innocence seems a reasonable starting point for any accuserd person, though rape is a singular crime in terms of the ability of the accused to hide behind that presumption when the authorities permit it. I don't know Assange or anybody else I've only seen on TV...and I've not been following him personally or his case all that closely. I do know that people don't become transformed in an instantaneous bolt from the blue...in a Saul-like conversion to being a serial rapist. It's not as though Assange hasn't been under someone's microscope for some time...and a particularly high resolution one at that.. The timing of the charges make their motivation fairly transparent. The "journalistic" personalities that constitute that community in the US are going to go after this sort of thing like red meat not particularly because of the government's encouragement of it, but because Assange has been doing precisely what they don't do.. Then, too, those TV personalities who see treating women this way as a matter of entitlement would be particularly resentful of tthe idea that a rival would do wo without going the TV and corporate route.... It all just stinks. And that's all we actually know or can know about it at this point... ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
