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| Oh pornoscanners. You're so ridiculous. |
Naomi Wolf, a journalist who has spent years talking to rape survivors literally the entire world over--developed, developing, Sierra Leone to Thailand to Norway to the UK to the States, you name it--NAILS IT, accusing Sweden and the US of "pimping feminism" (a charge that gives me shivers and makes me nauseated in all the right ways).
"In other words: Never in twenty-three years of reporting on and supporting victims of sexual assault around the world have I ever heard of a case of a man sought by two nations, and held in solitary confinement without bail in advance of being questioned -- for any alleged rape, even the most brutal or easily proven. In terms of a case involving the kinds of ambiguities and complexities of the alleged victims' complaints -- sex that began consensually that allegedly became non-consensual when dispute arose around a condom -- please find me, anywhere in the world, another man in prison today without bail on charges of anything comparable. Keep Assange in prison without bail until he is questioned, by all means, if we are suddenly in a real feminist worldwide epiphany about the seriousness of the issue of sex crime: but Interpol, Britain and Sweden must, if they are not to be guilty of hateful manipulation of a serious women's issue for cynical political purposes, imprison as well -- at once -- the hundreds of thousands of men in Britain, Sweden and around the world world who are accused in far less ambiguous terms of far graver forms of assault."
Awesome guy makes Comics of the Cables, in the new-but-burgeoning-tradition of graphic novel journalism that I love so, so much.
As if making everything but DHS-vetted carrier pigeons court-martial-able wasn't "secure" enough, the US Air Force logs searches of and blocks access to any publication talking about the Cables whatsoever. Because god forbid they know what they signed up for.
And finally, historical quotables still topical:
