On Dec 8, 2010, at 9:08 AM, [email protected] wrote:

>> 
>> No, actually it's a consent issue: it's not using a condom against the 
>> express wishes of your partner that's the crime here; the alleged 
>> "reporting" on this issue is just awful.
>> 
> 
> That explanation doesn't make the arrest sound any more justifiable. 

Here's a better one. It at least explains some of the dynamics:

<http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/12/06/some-thoughts-on-sex-by-surprise/>

Regardless, even if the charges are proven in the courts, the way this case has 
been handled is unprecedented, and seems designed to get Assange into the hands 
of authorities whence he can be spirited off to some black prison somewhere. 

Given the ferocity with which they've denounced him, I highly doubt he'll get 
any help from his own country.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs


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