This is truly one of those WTF moments.
Gaga was nearby at department store Harrods promoting her new fragrance The Fame when rapper M.I.A. tweeted her, suggesting: ”If ur at harrods today, come visit Assange at the Ecuador embassy across the st. im there. ill bring TEA and CAKE. (sic)”
Assange is claiming asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition after facing rape and sexual assault allegations from two women in Sweden, and he fears extradition to America for publishing sensitive diplomatic information online if he were to return to Sweden.
Gaga stayed in the embassy chatting with the WikiLeaks mastermind for five hours over a private dinner, and finally emerged at midnight to pose for a photo with the fugitive.
There’s a lot of discussion, at the moment, about how the late Jimmy Saville managed to get away with what appears to have been a campaign of rape and sexual abuse of young women. Given that Saville’s behaviour was pretty well known in the music and broadcasting industry, why did nobody say anything?
Similarly, many people were shocked by the support – from the film industry, this time – for the fugitive Roman Polanski, who drugged and sodomised a child. How could Whoopi Goldberg opine that this was not “rape-rape”?
Well, you’re seeing this happening again, with Assange. The message is clear: if you like a rapist, and particularly if you like the rapist’s politics, if you see him as “one of us”, then rape is just fine and dandy.
How shabby.
