Great podcast from george galloway

[REDSOX]

George galloway has done a really good podcast on Syria recently. I recommend that comrades listen to it and learn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU25FwYmkhw

If you have problems with the link just go to youtube and type in goodnight george galloway syria and click on episode 3

[ed miliband]

he's also a rape apologist, btw

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/20/george-galloway-julian-assange-rape

and pro-life, and a creationist, and an all-round dodgy bastard.

[ed miliband]

although, i shouldn't need to point the rape apologia out to you because you've been watching these "broadcasts" yourself.

[Peoples' War]

he's also a rape apologist, btw

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/20/george-galloway-julian-assange-rape

and pro-life, and a creationist, and an all-round dodgy bastard.
He's a hit or miss type of guy. It's like watching that American Bill Maher, hit or miss, because you know he's not a Marxist, and you know what flaws they have.

When it comes to his "rape apologism", he has said that it wasn't rape, OR "At least not rape as anyone with any sense can possibly recognise it."
Yes, he does go on, but I want to talk about this point.

Rape is rape, and it's difficult when you want to deal with the specifics surrounding Assange's case, because it wasn't violent in the sense the majority see rape today. You say rape, and the thought is of someone pinning someone down, ripping there clothes off, and forcing penetration while the woman struggles and screams for it to stop. This is the point Galloway makes here, and I'm inclined to somewhat agree with THIS point. When someone who is unfamiliar with the case hears he allegedly raped someone, they don't have the image of someone calmly and quietly violating and penetrating a sleeping woman, let alone a woman you have slept with consensually only hours before. They have the thought of violent rape I had mentioned. This, itself, is also an issue, because it makes it seem that what was done is, in some way, not rape.



Do you punish this rape to the same extent you punish the violent rape of someone else? I don't think so, but I do still believe punishment and rehabilitation are necessary to set the example that this is still rape.

Anyways, off topic a bit, and the discussion should be elsewhere.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Any time I listen to him, I get the feeling he is trying to be edgy. I remember him bragging about smoking a Cuban Cigar, like he was a true rebel.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Wait a minute! Didn't he just get into a rape controversy in that same video?

[DasFapital]

I'm sure he's making comrade harpal brar proud

[ed miliband]

Wait a minute! Didn't he just get into a rape controversy in that same video?

yep, he did. but he doesn't like israel so who cares?

oh god, he's really a fucking wannabe-demagogue; fucking bedroom broadcasts of his rants, ugh.

[Igor]

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