Liberal from whose point of view? When I looked into this some years ago I seem to recall that Sweden had something like 5 levels of 'rape' and the least significant was something like 'I agreed to sleep with him but subsequently regretted it' yet it could still be punished with a custodial sentence. Feminists might consider that very liberal; many men would disagree.
Also, he isn't afraid of being convicted of rape, he's afraid of being extradited to the US of A to be charged with the leaky thing after being extradited to Sweden for the rape charge.
And all of this could have been avoided had the Swedish authorities simply agreed to interview him in the UK instead of him having to travel to Sweden. Given how minor the charge is, I would also be suspicious if I was him that they refused to do so.
He’s a proper nasty piece of work, by all accounts.
“When the Guardian editors told him they would redact the names of Afghans mentioned in the cables whose lives would be otherwise endangered, Assange said: “Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it.” https://t.co/9OWzYWFV0H”
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
and "Giuliani told the Examiner he thinks Assange might have information that would "show who invented [the] false story that [Trump] colluded with Russians."
Crowdstrike invented it, surely everyone knows that who has their eyes open. With their connections to Ukrainian oligarchs, anti-Russian think tanks and, oh, Hillary Clinton! Only they investigated the DNC server, and curiously not the FBI, or Muellers investigation or anyone else.
Meanwhile, Craig Murray and Julian Assange, the two people who claim to know who actually provided Wikileaks with the data (leaked, not hacked), were never consulted by the FIBs or the investigation.
Naturally, because the last thing M & Co. want is young Julian testifying under oath that his source was in fact "that dead guy", for instance, rather than the Commies. The Feeb's (and Mueller's) conclusions regarding the so-called hack only make sense so long they are never, ever tested in front of any half-decent defence lawyer.
Assange could write a book about it, I suppose, as he's unlikely to ever get his day in court
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Sentenced to a lifetime of hearing this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQlVww0zKo
"Scoring a goal is better than sex" - Whoever said that was sticking it to the wrong woman
A new guvmint in Ecuador wanted an IMF loan and the US made it conditional on this. It's been a while since I read what some of the Trump cultists were saying, but they loved JA and reckoned DJT would spring him and pardon him. Whether they will be disappointed or pleased, we shall see.