This case may also turn out to be a good way of calibrating a person’s predictions.
Right now people are throwing out a lot of predictions, ranging those who think, on one extreme:
Assange is guilty as charged.
The prosecutors have evidence to proceed against Assange
The US government had nothing to do with it.
They aren’t going to try to have him extradited to the US/no charges will be brought
To the other extreme:
Assange was entrapped by a US government (probably CIA) plot
The charges against Assange are totally specious, any sex was entirely consensual
Right now, there is a grand jury meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, to try to charge and extradite Assange to the US.
The Swedish prosecutors know they have no viable evidence, but want him held in jail until the US extradition can go through.
Of course there are other theories, for example, that the plot had no USG involvement, and is just a case of angry ex-lovers seeking revenge against an innocent man.
Of course there are other theories, for example, that the plot had no USG involvement, and is just a case of angry ex-lovers seeking revenge against an innocent man.
This is my strongly preferred theory. (But I might quibble about calling the other party in a one-night stand a lover.)
This case may also turn out to be a good way of calibrating a person’s predictions.
Right now people are throwing out a lot of predictions, ranging those who think, on one extreme:
Assange is guilty as charged.
The prosecutors have evidence to proceed against Assange
The US government had nothing to do with it.
They aren’t going to try to have him extradited to the US/no charges will be brought
To the other extreme:
Assange was entrapped by a US government (probably CIA) plot
The charges against Assange are totally specious, any sex was entirely consensual
Right now, there is a grand jury meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, to try to charge and extradite Assange to the US.
The Swedish prosecutors know they have no viable evidence, but want him held in jail until the US extradition can go through.
Of course there are other theories, for example, that the plot had no USG involvement, and is just a case of angry ex-lovers seeking revenge against an innocent man.
This is my strongly preferred theory. (But I might quibble about calling the other party in a one-night stand a lover.)
Calling the other party of a one-night stand a “lover” sounds totally natural to my ears.
The second and third senses of the term at dictionary.com are:
a person who has a sexual or romantic relationship with another.
a person with whom one conducts an extramarital sexual affair.
Do you not hear the word used in those senses very much? Is it the one-time-ness that makes it seem less like ‘lover’ is appropriate?