(1). In Sweden he had legal consensual sex with two women. However, the rule of law there, mandates a condom must be used. The women alleged Assange slipped off the condom and quickly penetrated them. The law states this classified as rape.
(2) Awaiting extradition to Sweden, he appealed and bail was set. He was broke. Nine persons put up the bail. 140,000 pounds. He skipped his court appearance and the judge ruled the bail donors had not been deceptive. He reduced the loss to 93,000 pounds. I would say about 140,000 dollars US. They were hard hit by this.
My own view is that although Assange has been through hell this should be noted. An interfering busy body that did not care who he hurt. Thrusting out information that probably sent people to their deaths or vile imprisonment.
However egregious their breach of confidential data has been, Wikileaks and Snowden and Kim.com, etc. have told the truth that we are already living in 1984. Some IT oldtimers like myself knew it had to be happening as computing got speedier and storage larger.
Now all men know, if they care to think about it. Trump's election was made possible in part by Assange’s anger at HRC. His involvement was essential to making people on the fence aware of how despicable and anti-American HRC is. Reading the Podesta emails was eye opening even to me regarding how they do their dirty work.
So what is to be done? The intel community needs to be changed. Can it be? Is everyone so compromised that no one is beyond being blackmailed and controlled? Or is their ability to construct false narratives about individuals or murder them via stealth making this cleanup impossible? Has absolute power corrupted them absolutely?
Feminazis would love to pass that law here, “He said he would wear a rubber”!=rape? Ridiculous. Would clog the courts with frivolous cases.
Assange is guilty of more things like having a sexual intercourse when the woman was asleep while not wearing a condom - both carry charges under Swedish law.
But he is also a manipulative asshole. I remember the helicopter video, that he cut in a way that left out men carrying AK-s and RPG-s and focused only on some foolish reporter, who was among these guys without a press west, aiming his big objective pipe toward the passing column getting shot.
“This is certainly at least, delayed justice for Assange. As I understand it and do stand to be corrected, here are two facts.”
It is not “delayed Justice” when an accused flees the justice system.
One added part of the Sweden story is that several news items have strongly suggested (interviews with other women) that Assange was playing the ‘James Bond’ character a great deal, and there were probably over two dozen other women who were also greeted by his evening activities. It’s just that these two women met up with each other, compared notes, and noted his condom practice.
I don’t condemn the guy, but on the safe-sex scale...he’s a zero at best.