Comment Re:How many years could he be charged with? (Score 1) 299
Straw men usually are.
Their description of Swedish rape law is to reality as fish are to bicycles. Sweden actually has some of the most lax, backward rape laws in Europe. For example, several years back there was a case where a teenage girl was gang raped by three men, but only the first could be charged because she had given up struggling after the being beaten into submission by the first and hadn't registered an objection to the other two.
What Assange is *actually* charged with, the rape charge (#4 on the EAW) is:
4. On 17th August 2010, in the home of the injured party [name given] in Enkoping, Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep, was in a helpless state. It is an aggravating circumstance that Assange, who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used, still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party’s sexual integrity.
To put it quite plainly, he's charged with, when a girl who was paranoid about disease and pregnancy refused to have unprotected sex with him, he waited until she fell asleep and then started F*ing her unprotected. Which is F*ing rape, and the fact that people keep trying to pretend that it's not "real" rape, I find sickening.