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[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by JWBear

When a man who releases information that is highly embarrassing to the most powerful government in the word is suddenly and conveniently embroiled in a sex scandal, and the accusations get progressively worse, sorry... but I'm going to take everything that is said against him with a very large grain of salt.

If you don't think our government will do everything in their power - legal or illegal, moral or immoral - to destroy him, then you are beyond naïve.

You're right that's very likely.

However, you are equally beyond naive if you don't think that cases of borderline sexual assault/abuse are not routinely ignored and marginalized until the accused becomes noteworthy. Perhaps these women's decision to pursue charges now can be interpreted as opportunistic, and perhaps it IS opportunistic, but that doesn't mean he's innocent. Perhaps he's just a big enough prick that he's kept his accusers too intimidated to come forward, and only now that they knew there'd be media scrutiny did they feel safe enough to do so.

There are untold details that you and I are not privy to. There are countless reasons (both in the accusers' favor and in Assange's) that these women may have waited until now to come forward. No one, other than the actual people involved, has even a fraction of enough information to be as sure as people seem to think they are about which side they think is in the right here.