Nowhere Man
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I don't think the first amendment will help him much in Sweden.
People want him extradited to the U.S., so if that happens, he can use the 1st.
Julian Assange arrested
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People want him extradited to the U.S., so if that happens, he can use the 1st.
^ Well, there's no accounting for taste...
Assange is out to DESTROY democracy, not to save it. Bit hard to be a benefit for something you hate.
So, having an informed populace is a threat to democracy?
Interesting...
I think that's what MLB fears the most: people who know more than him.
No, not exactly; I just fear chaos and disorder.
Maybe Assange should get Roman Polanski's lawyer.
I think he is going to represented by Australian-born human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC. Robertson is very well known, both here in Australia and I believe in Britain. In Australia he hosted Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals in which notable people including politicians were given hypothetical situations and asked how they would react. It was a very interesting show.
It seems that one of the lawyers in Robertson's law firm is an expert in dealing with extradition proceedings with Scandinavian nations.
It seems that one of the lawyers in Robertson's law firm is an expert in dealing with extradition proceedings with Scandinavian nations.
No, not exactly; I just fear chaos and disorder.
I fear lemmings.
Yeah, there's no difference at all between releasing documents that describe secret government activities and leaking information about an open criminal case.
^You're right.
The former is worse.
The former is worse.
^ Assange believes that all secrecy is criminal, so it basically is the same thing.
I mean, if he's worried about his own ability to receive a fair trial, that is a valid concern, but clearly he is not willing to extend the same courtesy to the US government...so there's definitely a pot/kettle/black scenario here.
I mean, if he's worried about his own ability to receive a fair trial, that is a valid concern, but clearly he is not willing to extend the same courtesy to the US government...so there's definitely a pot/kettle/black scenario here.
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Not sure why he'd be pissed exactly, given that the docs show that the charges against him are pretty shaky.
Interestingly, the defence counsel fighting his extradition to Sweden has put forth an interesting argument supported by a Swedish judge: the prosecution is a man-hating radical feminist.
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This is, of course, not true.
Interestingly, the defence counsel fighting his extradition to Sweden has put forth an interesting argument supported by a Swedish judge: the prosecution is a man-hating radical feminist.
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This is, of course, not true.
^ I think it is. Why's he in such a blood frenzy to leak anything and everything if it ain't? Is there anything he WOULDN'T leak?
And of course no accused rapist has ever made that accusation before.
Assange might want to keep his conspiracy theories straight. Is it the Big Bad Gubmint trying to bring him down? Or the classic trope, the Man-Hating Feminazi?
And of course no accused rapist has ever made that accusation before. Assange might want to keep his conspiracy theories straight. Is it the Big Bad Gubmint trying to bring him down? Or the classic trope, the Man-Hating Feminazi?
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^ I think it is. Why's he in such a blood frenzy to leak anything and everything if it ain't? Is there anything he WOULDN'T leak?
Assange might want to keep his conspiracy theories straight. Is it the Big Bad Gubmint trying to bring him down? Or the classic trope, the Man-Hating Feminazi?
You are familiar with the concept of a defence lawyer, right?
It's not nearly the same thing, and I'm not interested in explaining it to you. If you can't figure it out for yourself, that's your problem.
I hope Assange ends up free and clear because of this.
If I understand it Julian Assange's complaint is that the documents that have been leaked concerning him have only been selectively leaked or partially leaked. He wants the complete documents to be leaked not only the parts that put him in a bad light.
When WikiLeaks releases a cable they put the whole cable on their website even if newspaper only selectively report on a cable.
When WikiLeaks releases a cable they put the whole cable on their website even if newspaper only selectively report on a cable.
ST-One
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Nothing you wrote here is even remotely true.
ST-One
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For what?
The concern isn't analogous. One is talking about tainting any potential jury by giving them access to information that would have been excluded by the rules of evidence. If the government were on trial for something, it might be the same, but that's not the case. It's an issue of due process and a fair trial. They want to leak all the info they want to make this whole thing hypocritical, they can do so after the trial.
Do you believe him guilty of the crime charged?
He hasn't actually been charged with any offence yet, has he? That's partly the problem with the extradition warrant.
