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The rape charges are childish and even if successful will ultimately only make Assange into an even more powerful personality.
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Unless they turn out to be true, of course. Swedish cops don't exactly have a reputation for going off half-cocked on things like this, and if the CIA (or God Forbid the FSB, GIGN or Mossad) wanted him dead or discredited, he'd either be dead already or have been caught red-handed with the proverbial "dead girl or live boy."
As for Mr. Chomsky, while I admire his style and verve nobody has ever been able to convince me that Democracy is a -good- thing. As a consequence, I cannot see why a "hatred for Democracy" should perforce be an inherently bad thing. I personally detest Democracy: Democracy gave us the French Revolution, Bill Clinton, George Bush (take your pick) and the current imbecile, with all their attendant lunacies: in return it took Socrates and Lysander Spooner and Henry Thoreau and Ralph Emerson and Hunter S. Thompson, whom it either murdered with glee or buried with false tears and the reward of cultural castration. I don't call that a fair trade.