What the hell is that write-up: Musings of a neoliberal part 451?

Why are so many people assuming that US law should be universal? It is literally the court of a sovereign country who decided that something should be legally enforced, therefore it is the law of the land. You can argue ethics, but you can't argue legality, because that's up to Germany to decide from themselves. Maybe to them a woman's right to privacy is considered more important than the man's desire to possess her.

Neither of the women have said that Assange raped them. They had a grievance with him allegedly deceiving them and his sexual health and wanted a court-ordered test performed on him. The prosecutors then leapt on the issue, bumped it up to rape, hoping that he could then be passed on to their friends in the US.

Exactly. It's like claiming that a business has no right to demand your access card and equipment back if they decide to let you go. Whether you retain 'naked rights' in photo or video after the relationship ends is entirely up to the person in them. You've been granted no right to perpetual possession. It's an informal agreement based on context and can quite rightly be revoked at any time. I'm amazed he dragged his heels for so long. Probably has major issues with control and couldn't handle being told what to go by a woman and decided to try to embarrass her.

I'm surprised that he even needed to go to court for this. If an ex- asks you to delete photos and videos, you delete them.

You know what the worst thing about being a slave is? They make you work all day but they don't pay you or let you go.

Haven't PETA got kittens and puppies to kill? Those dumpsters don't fill themselves!

Popular vote (Proportional representation) wouldn't work in the UK simply because of our population distribution. The number of people living in London is almost equal to the number of people living in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. So the wishes of one city in a heavily urbanised area would sway public policy almost as much as the wishes of three entire countries/provinces in (mostly) rural areas.

As the saying goes: all men are equal, but some are more equal than others.

It's the 19th century newspaper tax all over again!

It's lasting in my country. I probably throw TBs at mine every month and I've never been shaped, capped or told to slow down. Guess that unregulated free market isn't working out so well for you.

It's a 'right' that nobody in the UK wants. In fact we ourselves petitioned the government to ban handguns and the like because we considered the right to life as more important than the right for gun companies to make a profit.

Where are all the good babies with guns to stop this plague of bad babies with guns?

Yes, but it wasn't so much America going 'they have them, we have to stop them' so much as it was 'we have them, and we really wanna use them'.

Those weren't exactly WMDs. It took tens of thousands of them to do severe damage.