Was Galloway in the room? If not, I'm curious about where he gets his information.

As a Sexual Offender Therapist for many years a couple of things are clear to me. First of all; the women are accusing this narcissistic rapist of rape! Rape is the penetration of the vagina to any extent without consent. In both cases Assange clearly did not have consent: ergo, Rape. Secondly, a review of his history makes it clear that he doesn't like to be told no. It is a characteristic of his to violate boundaries. It fits with the dynamic of rape. Rape is not about sexual gratification; it is about power and control. Assange is a power rapist. While the one case is more eggregious than the other both cases are about him taking illigetimate power and controlling the women. Guilty, Guilty Guilty.

He atttempts to blame the victims, claim he is a victim, and try to distract from the issues; just like a rapist. I don't care what they do with him but the soldier who gave him classified documents; he should continue to occupy a 4 by 9 cell for a very long time. And assange should be told" Obama does not care what he thinks!"

This is pure sophistry on Assange's part. Yes, he should have asked her if she minded. But he didn't even offer her the opportunity to consent; therefore, it's rape. Period.

You'd think that some men would know better than to comment on what makes a rape. Sadly, they don't.

That aside, I believe that the alleged rape charges against Assange had been investigated and dropped by the Swedish police at one time. Once the Wikileaks dump of U.S. files occurred, the charges were mysteriously (or, not so mysteriously) resurrected. Assange is right to stay put. He has no possible chance of being treated fairly - by Sweden or by the U.S.

"Rape is when you have sex without consent. Waking up and finding someone having their way with you is not consent."

Hell, if that is the case, then my wife has been "raping" me for YEARS! Should I, if I get mad at her, accuse her of raping me?? Puleeese...If you are going to make an accusation of rape, in that circumstance, then do it right there and then, don't wait until they do something to make you mad so you can "get even" with them...

This guy is sick and needs some psychiatric evaluation.

What's this: A woman actually defending Geeorge Galloway?!

1) I'm seriously not impressed with the Swedish federal prosecutor, Marianne Ry. The only reason she decided to intervene in this case was because Sweden has high rape accusation and low conviction rate. She took it upon herself to re-open Julian Assange's case even though it had been established that no rape law had been broken. And now she's trying to bully Assange into doing something that he wasn't legally required to do even under Swedish law. He could very easily give a statement from London and be done with it. They have done this with people accused of TERRORISM, so they can easily afford to do it for sexual chicanery.

2) Albeit the timing of Mr. Galloway's comments were in poor taste, I absolutely agree with him. I am fed up with the "DefCon1" level of outrage by (mostly white) women whenever politicians like him (or Re. Akin, for that matter) make comments about rape that upset their sensibilities. It really doesnt matter at the end of the day because the same people will continue to support them, no matter what they say. A lot of the critics of Mr. Galloway or Mr. Akin have very little to say when the victim is colored, but they lose it when the perpetrator is (gasp!) a MUSLIM!

3) I actually consider myself a liberal and a feminist, but I'm extremely dismayed with how the conversation of rape or sexual behavior is being hijacked by people wit one sole agenda. In Scandinavia in general, womens issues are always at the front burner, even at the expense of men and boys. I wouldn't expect Mr. Assange to know about or understand how dominating Scandinavian women can be. Men here are too afraid to touch the issue because they know it's an election loser. I used to be one of those who believed that the USA should emulate Scandinavian society, and now I'm seeing that would be a HUGE mistake.

I guess I have been raped a million times by Women then - I can't tell you how many times I have woke up with a woman on top of me already Riding without having asked me for Consent. Should I be taking these Women to Court for having Raped me?

If a man wakes up and finds a woman's Tongue in his AzzHohle, is it Rape?

During the years I was a private investigator and detective and long before innocence projects began demonstrating the truth, I made a practice of interviewing women who successfully charged men with rape, the interview always taking place at least two years after the conviction. Twenty-three of twenty-five women who testified that they had been forceably raped changed their story in a manner that would in all probability have meant refusal by a prosecutor to do so. One woman, however, I will never forget. Successful in sending to jail four young men (one of who was physically incapable of sex), she told me, "Maybe they didn't know it was rape." When I asked how that was possible, she replied archly, "That's up to the woman, isn't it?"

One thing is a lead-pipe cinch bet, that no one will ever ask what the factual truth is concerning Congressman Akins ill-considered statement (we won't even, as a matter of fact, ever hear ALL of his remarks that time).

For those who joke that their wifes have been raping them because they wake up with their wife on top, just remember, and this is no joke, when your wife wakes up with you on top she can claim rape because she didn't give consent and there are laws on the books where a wife can charge her husband with rape. So either wake her up and ask her or don't pi$$ her off to where she will ever want to charge you with rape.

If a Man Wakes Her up and asks for Consent to Bang her, and she says yeah, will He still go to Prison if She, the next Day, tells the Sherriff that she was talking in her sleep and was Not Fully awake when she Consented?

Which degree of rape are we talking about? Maybe Galloway can use the "phone a friend" and call Todd Akin for expert advice...

Amazing how Assange is being completely tried and convicted in the public media by governments. Even more amazing is those who pass judgement based entirely on one word: rape.

Any day you 'trust' ANY government - is the day you will be morally and ethically raped. There isn't a single example of a government that doesn't lie, doesn't twist, doesn't cheat or steal or kill. Government has no ethics nor morals and has become the personification of every ill and malady known to man.

But now the machine has become the proverbial 'to big to fail' as it feeds on and supports itself on the backs of every man, woman, and child. It has become a complete social psychopath when it decidedly sets out to destroy or eliminate anyone who would expose the men and women behind the curtain. There is no transparency just as there is no integrity. It's all cash and promises fueled by greed and power.

Assange pulled back their curtains. He exposed the innards of the monsters. In retaliation, the US and the UK will see him eliminated - one way or the other. How is it that this one man threatens them so??

If Assange divulged classified material, he should be apprehended and tried for espionage. If convicted he should be punished. His actions may have endangered US lives. EOS.

You can't fix stupid !!!

I would like to see the Brits let Julian Assaunge go to Ecuador taking full advantage of the political asylum offered by the Ecuadorian government. I doubt that @!$%# would be there two months before someone found him with a slug in his head.

The court of jurisdiction in the case is in another country and waiting to hear the defendant. The court is even willing to provide transport and has issued warrants.

Put this discussion in the proper venue.

One thing struck me as I read all the comments. If you think what Assange did in releasing seceret documents was a good thing, you will defend him; if you think what he did with the documents was the wrong thing, you will condemn him.

I doubt that anyone here has all the facts, hence I doubt that anyone here can make a definitive statement about the validity of the Swedish request to interview him. Sadly, this is more of a political statement for most.

Well, as to the original charge, I can see her point. If her birth control needs refreshing before it works; if it must be reapplied or even if she just makes sure the condom is in place, a girl needs warning.

Doesn't anybody train dudes in how birth control works, much less how the female body works? I mean it is implied here, that this wasn't procreation, it was recreation, so therefore one if not both of them have to have some sort of birth control going on.

You can't just ASSUME her birth control is the pill, but you can assume they were not out to conceive. OR was he just going to let her deal with all that willy nilly as @!$%#s often do.

All men are guilty of rape. The fact that they have a penis makes them guilty by default. The fact that men have two balls and women don't, ultimately contributes to keeping women down! Girl power! Girl power! Girl power!

Well this guy is just about a nut job... he would fit right in with the liberal left in this country! He admires Castro and Saddam Hussein... is anti-capitalist... believes in wealth redistribution and class warfare... believes in conspiracies... revises the truth to suit his political agenda. Yup. He would fit right in...

What struck me odd is the statement that "rape is rape". Rape is not rape and you are an idiot if you believe that. An 18 year old college male having consensual sex with his female college instructor is considered rape because she is in a position of authority over him but that is not the same as some hobo pushing a librarian into a back alley and ripping off her panties bending her over a dumpster and sodomizing her. A bit gory but I was just trying to make a point. Rape is not rape all the time. To say it is, is ridiculous. You already had sex with the dude and you know what happened, the same thing that happens every single time a man wants to have sex with a woman while she is trying to sleep. She said go ahead and do whatever but I am going to sleep and am not participating which normally occurs in a marriage but I guess it could happen in a one night stand as well. He did and she thought she could get some money out of it. The mistake on his part was not kicking her ass out and making her go home and sleep at her house or leaving and going home himself whatever the case was, not sure whose house they were at.

"Rape victims have a history of being ignored and accused of lying," she added. "They have a history of feeling terrified of speaking out in case they are not believed, or are ridiculed, or have to face their attacker and relive the crime. This is why so many rape victims never report their crimes and why so many find it difficult to speak out in court."

While I may agree, court proceedings are set up to make it hard to convict for a reason. Many rape clames are true, but are very hard to be proven. Many rape claims are made up, because it is so easy to use against someone. Even if you don't get a conviction, the stigma will always be attached to that person.

Yes, I have seen it made up. Two girls within two or three weeks of each other the last semester I was at college. One had consented, but changed her story after her father found out. One had made the whole thing up. Didn't matter, the first guy was arrested and sat in jail for a few days until she was disproven and he released. Second one thankfully was brought to court for filing false report, even though charges were dropped.

What about DSK last summer? Why no outpouring for the head of a major monetary institute who was tabbed to be the next French president? Is it possible that liberal little guys are the only ones that can be falsely accused, while big names are obviously guilty from the start? He did what was right, stuck around for trial, didn't try to run to the Ecuadorians, and guess what? Charges dropped when proven false.

Finally, maybe I don't understand extradition law, but why was it Assange feels any safer in the UK than Sweden from being extradited to the US?

So he had sex with the woman and later had sex with her while she was sleeping. I must agree with George here, if she wasn't available she should have left the room. Having sex with him and sleeping in the same bed seems that she is giving implied consent. Are we to the point where we need a notarized consent form before we have sex?