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struggle4progress

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14. Hallucinations won't count as evidence here. If you know (by ESP, say, or because Martians
Sun Sep 9, 2012, 02:36 PM
Sep 2012

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are beaming such information to your dental fillings) that Borgstrom is involved on his own initiative and only to raise his own profile, or that the two women involved were paid by the Swedish state to make the accusations, or that the UK has abandoned its ancient custom of judicial oversight in this case, then (of course) none of the rest of us can dispute your private revelation, and you are therefore allowed to hold such a view yourself -- but common standards of public discourse also require you to provide public evidence (rather than your private revelation), if you want to convince other people of the rightness of your views

Mark Weisbrot's Shame [View all] struggle4progress Sep 2012 OP
2 YRS AGO:Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange CANCELLED WillYourVoteBCounted Sep 2012 #1
31 August 2010 Mr Assange is questioned by police for about an hour in Stockholm ... struggle4progress Sep 2012 #2
Rape investigation into Wikileaks chief reopens (Thursday 02 September 2010) struggle4progress Sep 2012 #4
DU rec...nt SidDithers Sep 2012 #3
Labelling those who disagree with you TonyR Sep 2012 #5
Or misogynists. The one I really enjoyed LadyHawkAZ Sep 2012 #6
You and Tony should get your stories straight, because you argue in opposite directions: your theory struggle4progress Sep 2012 #13
The one he clearly said was on paper but rarely invoked in practice? LadyHawkAZ Sep 2012 #15
It's still the opposite of what Assange originally claimed -- namely, that he was the victim struggle4progress Sep 2012 #16
Details usually do become clearer over time than they are initially LadyHawkAZ Sep 2012 #17
Naomi Wolf: Wrong Again on Rape struggle4progress Sep 2012 #7
Interesting but not relevant in this case TonyR Sep 2012 #9
(A) You asked what I thought of Naomi Wolf. I told you. Then you sneer it's not relevant. struggle4progress Sep 2012 #12
Having had the chance to appeal through both countries' legal systems treestar Sep 2012 #8
No conspiracy deeded TonyR Sep 2012 #10
6 is simply not true treestar Sep 2012 #11
Hallucinations won't count as evidence here. If you know (by ESP, say, or because Martians struggle4progress Sep 2012 #14
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