16-08-2012, 19:58
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
Wikileaks have announced on Twitter, that Julian Assange is to deliver a Statement in front of the Ecuador Embassy on Sunday at 2pm.
Um, how can he do this surely once he steps out he will be 'Cuffed' and sent on his merry way to Sweden? 
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16-08-2012, 20:00
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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The Asylum claim is rubbish anyway, being investigated for sexual offensives is not a reason is claim asylum.
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Indeed. Political asylum is supposed to be for fear of persecution, not fear of prosecution...
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16-08-2012, 20:05
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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Wikileaks have announced on Twitter, that Julian Assange is to deliver a Statement in front of the Ecuador Embassy on Sunday at 2pm.
Um, how can he do this surely once he steps out he will be 'Cuffed' and sent on his merry way to Sweden? |
You would think so, indeed the people on the news/twitter/live blogs are saying that they may try and do so. I suspect if police get to near he'll not go out or step back in.
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16-08-2012, 20:16
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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Wikileaks have announced on Twitter, that Julian Assange is to deliver a Statement in front of the Ecuador Embassy on Sunday at 2pm.
Um, how can he do this surely once he steps out he will be 'Cuffed' and sent on his merry way to Sweden? |
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You would think so, indeed the people on the news/twitter/live blogs are saying that they may try and do so. I suspect if police get to near he'll not go out or step back in.
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for "in front of the embassy" substitute "at the front door" 
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16-08-2012, 20:23
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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I find myself terribly worried because I'm tending to agree with Danielf. Must remember to alter my medication... |
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16-08-2012, 20:25
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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for "in front of the embassy" substitute "at the front door" |
Nah, he's not safe, not even at the front door, as Police are allowed in the Lobby, a corridor in the Ecuador Embassy as the building has shared ownership or something, so if he stood at the Front Door, I strongly suspect he will be Arrested.
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16-08-2012, 20:26
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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Nah, he's not safe, not even at the front door, as Police are allowed in the Lobby, a corridor in the Ecuador Embassy as the building has shared ownership or something, so if he stood at the Front Door, I strongly suspect he will be Arrested.
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We can but hope.
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16-08-2012, 20:30
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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Yeah he's not been charged with the crime as he is going all out to avoid extradition so he can be questioned.
As I see it there are two choices
- He did it and is trying anything to save his skin
- He didn't do it. The USA made it all up but instead of extraditing him from a country they have good ties with decided instead to frame him for a crime from a third country in the hope he goes there and gets extradited from country three to the US
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Me too..Sweden is one of the most libertarian countries in the world and more than once has been at odds with the US.
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16-08-2012, 20:33
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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Me too..Sweden is one of the most libertarian countries in the world and more than once has been at odds with the US.
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I have asked this constantly and no one has come up with an answer. Why fabricate a charge to get him sent to Sweden so that you can start the extradition process all over again but this time to go to America? Why not just do it here where we have shown little fight in extradition requests? Makes no sense.
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16-08-2012, 20:34
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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Nothing strange about it.
Raiding the house or storming it, one of the same thing.
Seen it used before - a google search shows it being used in the following news release:-
"In Friday’s early morning raid, troops stormed a house in the Bedouin desert town of Sheikh Zuweyid"
http://www.japantoday.com/smartphone...-sinai-attacks |
Is that really a valid comparison - police attempting to arrest a rape suspect for extradition, and troops & security forces trying to capture militants who were suspected of involvement in an assault in which gunmen stormed an army checkpoint killing 16 soldiers?
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16-08-2012, 20:38
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
Stormed vs Raid isn't really a problem is it? As we've established neither are what was proposed in the statement...
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16-08-2012, 20:42
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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and on that Hollywood note...
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I have asked this constantly and no one has come up with an answer. Why fabricate a charge to get him sent to Sweden so that you can start the extradition process all over again but this time to go to America? Why not just do it here where we have shown little fight in extradition requests? Makes no sense.
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... I feel a major cinematic blockbuster coming on - an international political thriller called "The Ikea Conspiracy". Maybe Matt Damon could star as Assange and there could be several sequels...
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16-08-2012, 20:43
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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Is that really a valid comparison -
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Yes, no - I couldn't give a crap. Stop bloody badgering on about it. 
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16-08-2012, 20:51
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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Stormed vs Raid isn't really a problem is it? As we've established neither are what was proposed in the statement...
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How about assault? 
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16-08-2012, 20:52
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Re: Wiki Leaks Founder Julian Assange granted 'Asylum' in Ecuador
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How about assault? |
No, thanks - I've just eaten....
On a more serious note, how about sexual assault, which is one of the charges against Assange?
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