Re: Lawyers doubt Assange will ever stand trial in Sweden Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on April 16, 2019, 8:31 am, in reply to "Lawyers doubt Assange will ever stand trial in Sweden"
My feeling has always been that the reason the Swedes didn't bring charges against Assange, was because the case was so weak and flimsy, the charges would never have survived even an initial scrutiny in a Swedish court. So, rather than make themselves look totally ridiculous after so much time, effort, money and prestige had been invested, they preferred to let the entire farce ebb out in the sand. That how 'serious' the allegations really were. A big problem, is that there's a 'constituency' out there with a hard 'feminist' agenda and they see this case as a gender political symbol, and they think the allegations are 'serious' because the term 'rape' has been, so losely applied and linked to the events in Sweden. Even though it's close to unthinkable that a UK jury would ever in a million years have judged Assange guilty of 'rape.'
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Message Thread:
- Guardian Comment Is Free: Why is the Left blinkered to claims of Assange sexual assault? - margo April 15, 2019, 1:20 pm
- Re: Guardian Comment Is Free: Why is the Left blinkered to claims of Assange sexual assault? - AlanG April 15, 2019, 1:26 pm
- Re: Guardian Comment Is Free: Why is the Left blinkered to claims of Assange sexual assault? - dovetailjoint April 15, 2019, 1:30 pm
- Does the politically-correct feminist angle lubricate the new narrative: deport Assange to Sweden? - margo April 15, 2019, 1:50 pm
- The proper focus of our attention - George Brennan April 15, 2019, 2:14 pm
- Lawyers doubt Assange will ever stand trial in Sweden - margo April 15, 2019, 9:14 pm
- Re: Lawyers doubt Assange will ever stand trial in Sweden - dovetailjoint April 16, 2019, 8:31 am
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