Wolf on Sweden, Sex & Wikileaks
Shame on Sweden; shame on Interpol; shame on Britain. And lasting shame, given this farcical hijacking of a sex crime law that is scarcely ever enforced…, on the United States.
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Naomi Wolf says she has found herself “up against a bizarre fantasy in the minds of my (mostly male) debating opponents” since making the case that the British and Swedish sex crime charges related actions against Julian Assange are so extraordinarily and unprecedentedly severe — compared to how prosecutors always treat far more cut-and-dry allegations countries — that it amounts to a “pimping” of feminism by the State and is an insult to rape victims. “The same Swedish authorities going after Assange do a worse job prosecuting reported rapes than do police and the judiciary in any comparable country.”
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