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This rape business with Assange is ridiculous. One of the reasons I detest broad criminal laws is that if the authorities are out to get you they can always find something to charge you with. So now with Assange it's apparently fucking without a condom. Bloody ridiculous. If they can't charge him with illegally stealing other people's data, which is what he and his confederates did which is so objectionable, then they should leave him free.
I remember that back in law school, when I took my criminal law course, it struck me that the laws are written so broadly that everyone is a criminal -- the only thing that saves most of us is the good sense of prosecutors and the limited resources allocated to law enforcement. But the problem with giving government agents discretion is that it's really easy for them to abuse it.
I take the rule of law very very seriously. There is little that is worse than governmental lawlessness or standardless discretion. That is, simply put, tyranny.
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