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    Re: MEDIA LENS ALERT: Assange Arrest – Part 2: ‘A Definite Creep, A Probable Rapist’ Archived Message

    Posted by dovetailjoint on April 18, 2019, 5:00 pm, in reply to "Re: MEDIA LENS ALERT: Assange Arrest – Part 2: ‘A Definite Creep, A Probable Rapist’"

    What I find staggering is this false argument that there's some kind 'balance' on the 'two sides' in the Assange Affair. This is nonsense. In the mainstream media there's a massive bias against Assange and voice protesting his innocence are virtually totally absent.

    The very idea that one should someone accept the claims of the two women about their relationship to Assange, because somehow, women don't 'lie' about this sort of thing... is both ridiculous and very dangerous.

    The idea that there's a 'special category' of witness, testimony, or story, that should be given more weight, because it comes from a woman, well, I find that staggering in its implications.

    I really dislike the attempts some people make to create a false equivalence between Assange and the two women involved. One can't just ditch the presumption of innocence in relation to Assange and the right to a fair trial and the difference between mere claims/allegations and legal charges, just because women are involved. This puts 'feminist' dogma before centuries of solid Anglo-Saxon legal principles and procedures, which are there to protect the weak from the powerful. And surely no one in their right mind thinks that Assange is somehow 'equal' to the power of the states ranged against him?

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