"Wikileaks was the future once. Then it became Julian Assange
An incredible intelligence, an understanding of systems, a denial of individual feeling β and a messiah complex. Itβs all a bit pre-Incel."
Seems to me that the establishment decided that the notion of Wikileaks is hard to refute.... so let us personalise it on Assange. Then we can create a really hateful personality so that even the people who approve of what he does become disgusted by the man. This used to be called character assassination. Seems to have worked.
Ergo Cogito Sum.
Free thinking
I like George Galloway, it is interesting that the author of the article is using what George "has" said about Assange back in 2012, she must have been scraping the barrel. Here is what George said back in 2012:
"No never means yes and non-consensual sex is rape. There's no doubt about it and that has always been my position," he said.
But he added the Assange case had "all the hallmarks of a set-up".
"I don't believe, from what we know, that the Director of Public Prosecutions would sanction a prosecution in Britain," he added.
"What occurred is not rape as most people understand it. And it's important to note that the two women involved did not initially claim it."
Galloway also previously said "not everybody needs to be asked prior to each insertion" and that the incident in question (which he summed up as "bad sexual etiquette" ) wasn't rape because one of of Assange's accusers had previously consented to sex with him. In his own words, she "woke up to him having sex with her again β something which can happen, you know."
Yuck.
He is still entitled to decent treatment despite being a rather unpleasant man. If he is extradited to the USA he will get the same vile treatment as Chelsea Manning.
Of course. Everyone is should be entitled to a fair trial. Granting that right is what makes us better than fascists.
He sucks but his cause doesn't, the ideal poster child isn't going to be available. I favor euthanasia too, but Kevorkian wouldn't have been my first choice