Quote from Maverick74:
Ron there is 100 pages of documents on line. Here is the gist of it from one of the 6 or 7 women who came forward. He picked up a woman at a bar and they went back to her apt. They drank a little, maybe smoked some weed, and she passed out. Up to that point, nothing happened between them. She wakes up in the middle of the night with him on top her and inside her. She tells him to get off, he doesn't.
Another account from another women was similar. This time he was fooling around with another women, he starts getting aggressive with her. He then starts f*cking her. She tells him to put on a condom. He says he did, which of course he lied, she doesn't say anything until she realizes what happened.
In both cases he admitted to both acts. He said or claimed both women enjoyed it and only changed their mind after the fact (morning remorse).
In both instances, at least in this country, if a man fucks a woman while she is sleeping without her consent, we usually consider that rape. Otherwise any man could drug a woman with roofies and sleep with her and claim, hey she was sleeping, she never said anything. Same with the old condom trick. A woman can consent to sex but may not consent to unsafe sex. continuing the act without a condom is considered rape in that case.
Assange, like a lot of men in this world who don't respect women, do not see these things as serious crimes as they have no respect for women in general. It's not like he dragged her into an alley and raped her. Most men just believe or want to believe the woman wanted it or really enjoyed it but is just not admitting to it or simply woke up the next morning and feels embarrassed about what happened. Whatever the excuse, he admitted to it. About 7 women came forward all telling similar stories. He doesn't "believe" what he did was rape. The law says otherwise. In fact, in Sweden, the rape laws are more serious then they are here in the states. Regardless, any rational person at the very least would agree that he should show up in court and try to defend himself against these charges.
Trying to defend this behavior because you personally like him or his cause is reprehensible. It's the same as looking the other way when Sandusky raped those young boys because, hey we can't hurt Penn State's football program.
