Assange seeks asylum in Ecuador embassy, London

[Wilf]

Okay, how about chopping him up into little pieces and reassembling him in Quito? He's pure information by now, so there shouldn't be much blood.

 

[DownwardDog]

JA is starting to remind me of this dude.

 

[DownwardDog]

You'd also have to sneak out of the embassy and onto the helicopter without being spotted. Landing one on the embassy roof might be a bit of a giveaway that something was going on.

It wouldn't be possible to land on the roof of Hans Crescent but there's a helipad on the roof of Harrods just across the street. So if some mysterious benefactor could get him across to there using a combination of Mission Impossible and Cirque du Soleil techniques then they could fly NOE to the Channel and drop him on an Venezuelan/Ecuadorian/Russian naval vessel or Ken Loach's yacht. Don't see it happening really.

 

[Wilf]

his favourite time

Dammit, and again, that's good.

 

[butchersapron]

Assange Loses Appeal in Swedish Court to Cancel Detention

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost an appeal to cancel a Swedish detention order for sexual assault as he fights to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he sought asylum two years ago to avoid extradition.

“The court finds that Assange is still suspected of the crimes and that there is risk he will evade justice,” Stockholm City Court said today. “Assange shall continue to be detained in absentia.” Judge Lena Egelin presided over the hearing.

 

[Spymaster]

"Detained in absentia"

 

[cesare]

Detention outsourced

 

[DotCommunist]

looks like the vid conferences and diet of ferro roche continues then

 

[Spymaster]

They are really spoiling him.

 

[Greebo]

looks like the vid conferences and diet of ferro roche continues then

A relatively gilded cage, but a cage for all that.

 

[MAD-T-REX]

If/when he goes and if/when he is convicted, I'd be interested to see how the Swedish court would treat his time in the embassy when sentencing. Would it effectively be time served and a mitigating factor or time spent actively evading justice and an aggravating one? Probably the latter since he is only there by choice.

 

[Wilf]

If/when he goes and if/when he is convicted, I'd be interested to see how the Swedish court would treat his time in the embassy when sentencing. Would it effectively be time served and a mitigating factor or time spent actively evading justice and an aggravating one? Probably the latter since he is only there by choice.

Surely they should also take account that for 4 decades he's had to be the self regarding twat that is Julain Assange. Cruel and unusual punishment in anyone's book.

 

[Awesome Wells]

If/when he goes and if/when he is convicted, I'd be interested to see how the Swedish court would treat his time in the embassy when sentencing. Would it effectively be time served and a mitigating factor or time spent actively evading justice and an aggravating one? Probably the latter since he is only there by choice.

He'll just get extradited to the US.

 

[Spymaster]

Would it effectively be time served and a mitigating factor ...

No.

 

[butchersapron]

He'll just get extradited to the US.

Give us the benefit of your reasoning here then.

 

[shifting gears]

Assange supposedly suffering from serious heart and lung conditions:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...o-year-embassy-confinement-it-is-claimed.html

Press conference in progress live on bbc news 24 now

 

[DownwardDog]

I think we've already had the health issues raised last year. He's basically doing a clip show at this point.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Assange 'to leave' Ecuador embassy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28834849uk-28834849

Leaving soon apparently, but not due to health.

 

[TopCat]

Well we will soon get to see how this will play out.

 

[butchersapron]

It won't. Because it won't happen.

 

[Wilf]

Assange supposedly suffering from serious heart and lung conditions:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...o-year-embassy-confinement-it-is-claimed.html

Press conference in progress live on bbc news 24 now

If he can't get out to a hospital, maybe he should ask John Pilger and Ken Loach to build him one inside the Embassy.

 

[shifting gears]

It won't. Because it won't happen.

What won't happen exactly? Him leaving the embassy?

Inclined to agree if that's what you mean - little seems to have changed with regard to his position in the eyes of the law.

 

[butchersapron]

What won't happen exactly? Him leaving the embassy?

Inclined to agree if that's what you mean - little seems to have changed with regard to his position in the eyes of the law.

Yep, leaving - at least in the short-medium term. As regards the law, i'd say nothing has changed. And he's pissed off the people who get to choose how it's implemented now.

 

[Wilf]

A side issue, but a couple of the details in that Telegraph piece are quite telling:

In an effort to keep fit, Assange has been working out with a former SAS veteran who acts as his personal trainer.
He also plays football alone in the embassy corridor in an effort to stay flexible.

With Assange's self importance, you just know he doesn't wait until everyone has gone home to start booting a ball around in the corridors. They must be fucking sick of him.

 

[laptop]

Assange 'to leave' Ecuador embassy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28834849uk-28834849

Leaving soon apparently, but not due to health.

A link that works is http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28834849

 

[shifting gears]

Yep, leaving - at least in the short-medium term. As regards the law, i'd say nothing has changed. And he's pissed off the people who get to choose how it's implemented now.

Which begs the question: what is the intended aim of this new strategy, declaring 'I'll be leaving soon' etc? Simply stirring up interest and trying to coax out new allies?

 

[butchersapron]

Which begs the question: what is the intended aim of this new strategy, declaring 'I'll be leaving soon' etc? Simply stirring up interest and trying to coax out new allies?

I believe so. May be short of funds.

 

[Wilf]

Which begs the question: what is the intended aim of this new strategy, declaring 'I'll be leaving soon' etc? Simply stirring up interest and trying to coax out new allies?

If he really is ill, his bargaining position will be getting weaker. As always, so hard to tell with Assange. There'll be rational calculation and strategy going on here, but everything has to be processed through his Messiah Complex.

 

[JimW]

...a former SAS veteran...

Completely aside, but this is a crap tautology from the Telegraph that leapt out. Previous former quondam veteran. Poor subbie has had brains addled by reading all that right-wing drivel.

 

[TopCat]

A side issue, but a couple of the details in that Telegraph piece are quite telling:

With Assange's self importance, you just know he doesn't wait until everyone has gone home to start booting a ball around in the corridors. They must be fucking sick of him.

They have been solidly supportive.