Not every country in the world goes along with the day-to-day tyranny that most Americans have come to accept as ‘normal’
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They are shielding him from a rape charge in Sweden.
“They are shielding him from a rape charge in Sweden.”
Yes, but it’s a rape charge where, even according to the complaint and the complainants, no actual rape occurred. In pretty much any other country in the world, if someone went to the police with the same set of facts, the police would dismiss it without even considering charges.
So based on facts like that, I think Ecuador rightly concluded that it was a thinly veiled political prosecution.
“They are shielding him from a rape charge in Sweden.”
You don’t really think that’s what Ecuador is doing, do you? Assange may be conveniently accused of rape in Sweden but that isn’t why Ecuador is helping him.