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Originally Posted by Sparkle
I'm glad you feel it will be free and fair, that shows that you actually believe in what you are saying, rather than using these allegations as a whipping stick to beat someone you don't like for reasons unrelated.
You may be right, but IF there are political motivations, then I think it's fair to say it will not end with his trial in Sweden.
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The Swedish extradition is meaningless in the context of a hypothetical extradition request to America. All that the Swedish extradition would achieve is adding another party whose permission America would need to seek. Instead of simply trying to get him out of the UK they would need to get him out of Sweden with the permission of the UK.
How does this make sense to you? Have America become so bored with the success they have had getting the UK Courts to extradite that they fancied a bit of a challenge?
It could be Assange is simply exploiting anti-Americanism and his legion of supporters' political prejudices to get himself out of a serious allegation of rape in Sweden. Sweden is not some tin-pot dictatorship with a corrupt legal system. It has a respected judiciary which is why we have no issue with their extradition request in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Chris
To be honest, prior to these allegations - or rather, his response to these allegations - I tended to believe Assange was providing a useful service to the world by founding Wikileaks. However, I certainly don't think that Wikileaks is a reason to confer sainthood on him, nor is it sufficient grounds in itself to assume that any criminal allegation made against him must necessarily be politically motivated.
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Not only this but Wikileaks are being incredibly stupid by associating themselves with this one guy. Wikileaks is really just a politically-neutral technical platform for the leaking of information. However, He has hijacked it to become his own little propaganda tool. Their Twitter account is in full-on Assange mode. It's linking to every pro-Assange article whilst attacking those who write dissenting articles and trying to discredit them for their 'agendas' rather than the content of their arguments. They dismissed David Allen Green who has written one of the more popular rebuttals of their arguments as being a
Assange "enemy". They're nuts!