Assange to face extradition

[brogdale]

Bump, in time for tomorrow's announcement that the UN panel have found in Assange's favour...that he has been detained arbitrarily.

Setting aside the usual cut & thrust of any Assange discussion, it quite amusing to see how the news of this impending finding has upset tories who were quick to point out that the UN finding will not be binding in this country. Those same tories happy to cheer on Assange's extradition under the **EU** arrest warrant treaty.

 

[J Ed]

Bump, in time for tomorrow's announcement that the UN panel have found in Assange's favour...that he has been detained arbitrarily.

Setting aside the usual cut & thrust of any Assange discussion, it quite amusing to see how the news of this impending finding has upset tories who were quick to point out that the UN finding will not be binding in this country. Those same tories happy to cheer on Assange's extradition under the **EU** arrest warrant treaty.

The EU is alright now, haven't you heard? It has an emergency brake which means it is good now and we should vote to stay in because of the emergency brake a negotiation won which ensures an emergency brake so going forward we will stay in a reformed emergency European brake Union emergency.

 

[brogdale]

The EU is alright now, haven't you heard? It has an emergency brake which means it is good now and we should vote to stay in because of the emergency brake a negotiation won which ensures an emergency brake so going forward we will stay in a reformed emergency European brake Union emergency.

 

[danny la rouge]

Sex case! Sex case! Hang him, hang him, hang him!

 

[brogdale]

Sex case! Sex case! Hang him, hang him, hang him!

Good of you to provide

the usual cut & thrust of any Assange discussion

 

[danny la rouge]

UN panel redefines "detained" and "arbitrary".

UN panel urges UK and Sweden to end Julian Assange's 'deprivation of liberty'

 

[redsquirrel]

Probably worth pointing our that this silly committee actually consisted on three people in this case, one person recused themselves and another disagreed with the findings.

 

[danny la rouge]

I called on Sweden to end the deprivation of my liberty last time I went to IKEA. Turns out all I had to do was find the exit.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[redsquirrel]

The three morons responsible for this report should be tarred and feathered, it's not just ludicrous it's offensive to those people that are arbitrarily detained and makes any UN criticism of government actions on this or other issues (for example the very valid criticism of the Australian governments NT policy) even more useless than previously.

 

[danny la rouge]

it's not just ludicrous it's offensive to those people that are arbitrarily detained and makes any UN criticism of government actions on this or other issues (for example the very valid criticism of the Australian governments NT policy) even more useless than previously.

Precisely.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[bimble]

He's talking now, on a screen .. telling the Uk and Sweden that they have to implement the verdict that they have no choice etc.
He just suggested that sanctions might be implemented if they fail to do so.
Julian Assange: UN panel decision is 'vindication' – live updates

 

[gosub]

this group's find as well as absurd (Assange should be paid for hiding from the law GTF), are also non binding.


All he's managed to do is further deminish the UN

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

He's talking now, on a screen .. telling the Uk and Sweden that they have to implement the verdict that they have no choice etc.
He just suggested that sanctions might be implemented if they fail to do so.
Julian Assange: UN panel decision is 'vindication' – live updates

Have you seen what that cunt's got for a background? justice4assange

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[danny la rouge]

The charges that were "dropped" haven't been dropped for any reason other than Assange waited out the statute of limitations.

The more serious charge of rape still stands.

The course of the legal process could be speeded up if Assange chose to answer the case against him. It could have proceeded faster up until now if he hadn't pursued appeal after appeal and if he hadn't skipped bail to hole himself up in the embassy.

And as for #JusticeForAssange: that's what I want too.

 

[Spymaster]

And as for #JusticeForAssange: that's what I want too.

I want to punch the smug cunt in the face.

 

[gosub]

In other news Chelsea Manning is 3 years into a 35 year sentence.

 

[bimble]

Can someone please explain what reason he's given for deciding to hide / incarcerate himself in the embassy for years instead of just letting himself be tried & found to be completely innocent ?

 

[Spymaster]

Can someone please explain what reason he's given for deciding to hide / incarcerate himself in the embassy for years instead of just letting himself be tried & found to be completely innocent ?

He says that getting him to Sweden is simply a ruse to enable them to extradite him to the US.

It's nonsense. They want to question him for fucking women whilst they were sleeping.

 

[danny la rouge]

Julian, if you want your "arbitrary detention" to come to an end, all you have to do is walk to your nearest police station. According to my phone there's one a minutes walk round the corner from you on Pavilion Road.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

He says that getting him to Sweden is simply a ruse to enable them to extradite him to the US.

It's nonsense. They want to question him for fucking women whilst they were sleeping.

He may be right, as the US wouldn't ask the UK to extradite him, what with US/UK relations on a par with US/North Korean ones...

 

[danny la rouge]

In other news Chelsea Manning is 3 years into a 35 year sentence.

And Julian's weaselly mendacity is detracting from Manning's cause. He's setting up some sort of equivalence, but there isn't one. Manning wasn't facing rape and sexual assault charges and refusing to answer them. Manning has behaved with dignity and courage.

 

[danny la rouge]

Can someone please explain what reason he's given for deciding to hide / incarcerate himself in the embassy for years instead of just letting himself be tried & found to be completely innocent ?

Indeed.

 

[IC3D]

He says that getting him to Sweden is simply a ruse to enable them to extradite him to the US.

It's nonsense. They want to question him for fucking women whilst they were sleeping.

Do you think hiding in a room for five years is a rational decision to those allegations?

 

[bimble]

Do you think hiding in a room for five years is a rational decision to those allegations?

He did sound a little bit mad today, like someone whose sense of his own importance has tipped over into the realm of the properly bonkers.
eg) "Assange said that if Sweden and the UK continued to dispute the report, “the diplomatic effect is that it will become difficult for [the two countries] to be treated seriously as international players”.

 

[IC3D]

bimble I don't dispute he could be bonkers ..definitely by now a least

 

[Kesher]

Swedish investigators have refused to interview Assange via video link or personally at the embassy. And they have refused to assure him that he won't be extradited to the U.S. That's bound to make Assange wary of going to Sweden.

 

[butchersapron]

Swedish investigators have refused to interview Assange via video link or personally at the embassy. That's bound to make Assange wary of going to Sweden.

No they haven't - they signed an agreement with Ecuador last year that they would do the latter. The ecuadorians were doing all they could to lose him.