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I didn't write rape, I wrote "sexual assault." There's a reason for that.

Pedantic distinction without a difference.

Prove that. Everyone else disagrees.

Not if you believe there's merit to the allegations and you're dealing with a foreign national that has made it clear he's about to leave the country. Then they release you from custody but keep your passport.

Prove that. Because it's not universal, including in Europe.

Why should they? Have they done that before? Do they normally offer guarantees to such treatment to people that they question?

Do you comment on many subjects at length where you have a comical level of ignorance, or just this one?

Answer the questions.

In 2001, Sweden arrested a couple of men and handed them over to the CIA to be tortured. That by itself makes Assange's fear of extradition a matter of common sense, not paranoia. Since then, Obama launched more prosecutions of whisteblowers than all previous presidents combined, had one tortured for eighteen months before finding her guilty in a kangaroo court. The current Secretary of State is a big fan of torture, and the current head of the CIA is a torturer.

Not answers to the questions. Show how Sweden is acting differently in wanting to question Assange in Sweden. Or continue to not do so. Your evasion speaks volumes.

Hell, not only is Assange in the right...

Blah blah irrelevant blah...

) See above 2) see recent case where UK courts blocked the extradition of an accused hacker to the United States because of America's brutal prison system.

First sentence: "A British computer hacker accused by the United States of causing more than $700,000 damage to U.S. military systems will not be extradited because of the high risk he could kill himself." Where's the mention of "America's brutal prison system"?

The same prison system that saw Manning tortured

Citation needed. Desperately.

Can't even make up your own insult. Sad.

Obviously, it was throwing your BS back in your face. Obviously.

By failing to identify one iota of falsity. Kudos, dilettante internet vigilante man

Oh, by the way, you skipped the whole "bail jumping" thing... probably because that act is indefensible.

You think UK police...

Blah blah irrelevant blah. "Doing essentially the same thing Daniel Ellsberg and the NYT" would involve fighting it out in court. Not jumping bail and hiding out in a foreign embassy. That's why one man is a celebrated hero, and the other is a reviled douche on the verge of being thrown out of his chosen refuge.

Actually it does mean exactly that. Apple does not manufacture their products and has not for a long time.

Bullshit. If failing Dell and HP get to pretend to be computer manufacturers, so does Apple.

“While Apple has changed the supply chain in many other factories and got out of manufacturing in many cases, it has always kept the Cork facility here so we’re the only Apple-owned manufacturing facility in the world,” senior director of manufacturing Paul Coburn explains.

“There’s a huge history there and when they transitioned [to outsourcing manufacturing] I think they saw that to get rid of all manufacturing expertise from Cork would actually be a risk.”

Instead, the Cork facility has flourished in the past decade as the core knowledge of its employees — many of whom are locals — grows in importance as outsourcing continues apace and new products are brought to market.

The US Feds are apparently working with the Gardaí of Dublin, and someone got caught with encrypted, but unlocked computers containing client CRM data. Now lots of dark sites all over the world are suddenly being exposed.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/b...

"ie. the coke-snorting Americans whining about them. You wouldn't be the first to suggest this... particular approach, the winning the war on drugs; but I bet you'd learn some interesting things about who does drugs once the casualties start to pile up."
Yes, a lot of Americans and Europeans would die. And I bet a lot of Canadians would as well.

I guess you're too lazy to read up on the subject and instead jump straight to bashing Americans. I know its easy and makes you feel better about yourself. But please try to at least make an effort to sound like a smug, smart ass. Here, I have done the work for you, since you appear to be incapable of doing it yourself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War#Effects_internationally
Improved cooperation of Mexico with the U.S. led to the recent arrests of 755 Sinaloa cartel suspects in U.S. cities and towns, but the U.S. market is being eclipsed by booming demand for cocaine in Europe, where users now pay twice the going U.S. rate.

OOPS! Bet you didn't see that one coming ... did you?
http://newamericamedia.org/2013/02/mexican-drug-cartels-eye-spain-as-their-new-home.php
http://www.mexicogulfreporter.com/2013/04/mexican-drug-cartels-have-strong.html
http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/mexican-drug-cartels-eye-europe-238202.html

Sorry to be a dick but as an American I am tired of ignorant people outside of the USA painting every American as an ignorant slob.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/plastic-bag-levy-nets-166m-in-10-years-185605.html http://www.hpsc.ie/hpsc/A-Z/Gastroenteric/Clostridiumdifficile/CdifficileSurveillance/CdifficileEnhancedSurveillance/Reports/File,13565,en.pdf Shows a rise in C Diff in the last 2 years, but long after introduction of plastic bag levy. Also shows that most cases are still sourced as Hospital based infections. Seriously... both are the first links on a Google search. Lack of sources is hardly a defense for you snarky comment and bout of laziness.

We'll show them the light ! Here they are, all of them in all their glory:

http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.irishexaminer.com/
http://www.irishtimes.com/
http://www.thestar.ie/
http://www.herald.ie/
http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.sundayworld.com/
http://www.businesspost.ie/
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/fr/viewer.aspx (they don't even have a website, how funny)
http://www.farmersjournal.ie/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.ie/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Most of them don't even have an irish dedicated website. They are pathetic. It's like passing a decree that makes people owing me $300 if they ever whisper my name in their car. There. Be warned.

maybe its the most clever link bait :)

I've excluded the URL's that link to the UK as they have no web .ie presence and therefore those sites are only partly involved.
Also, I'd like to add that I'm grateful for the free press we have in Ireland and I hope we don't f&*k that up.

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The Sunday Times (URL? ) (English subsidiary)

We'll show them the light ! Here they are, all of them in all their glory:

http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.irishexaminer.com/
http://www.irishtimes.com/
http://www.thestar.ie/
http://www.herald.ie/
http://www.independent.ie/
http://www.sundayworld.com/
http://www.businesspost.ie/
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/fr/viewer.aspx (they don't even have a website, how funny)
http://www.farmersjournal.ie/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.ie/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Most of them don't even have an irish dedicated website. They are pathetic. It's like passing a decree that makes people owing me $300 if they ever whisper my name in their car. There. Be warned.

http://www.herald.ie/news/mums-fears-as-son-misses-own-birthday-3340444.html http://www.eveningecho.ie/2013/01/02/cork-spends-300000e-collecting-house-fee/ http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/heineken-cup/ http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/ http://www.theirishfield.ie/site/healey-gallery.php http://www.sundayworld.com/columnists/sw-irish-crime.php?aid=13949

I make that 1800 euro and you can go f*** yourselves.

When you get the bill send THIS back to them.

The funny thing is that the low tax rates for some is the reason why Ireland had a deficit crisis.

And ironically it is then those countries that they are trying to undercut that needs to bail them out.

The problem with a lot of corporations is that they are narrow minded. They want to have a healthy and educated workforce. Companies like Rovio have benefit by being situated in a country where (I presume is like the average European country) where good education and healthcare is quite accessible. And the fact that is very accessible and like in this country is not because those things are heavily privatized.

That suggestion was quickly met with a fiery and typically bolshie response from Brian Cowen -- the man on whose watch as finance minister most of the worst crimes were committed. "We're not fucking nationalising Anglo," he shouted as he slammed the table.

So what? He took his orders from Ahern, and Ahern set things in motion in such a way that a crash was inevitable. Lenihan then authorised the disastrous blanket banking guarantee after a tense and secret midnight meeting with the top bankers.

Context is everything. The comments were made in the middle of a debate about

....women who were forced to travel abroad for medical terminations when they found the babies they were carrying were missing vital organs, like brains, and were completely unviable outside the womb

...what does that have to do with what I said? You're painting visions of politicians tearing their hair out over "fornication" when it was just one nutty backwoods TD, who has since been kept firmly muzzled by the party.

I'll just refer you and all your friends who have run off to London and transferred assets to their wives and children to this article on the grand delusions of property "victims".

Oh right so all of the investment property owners in the country have run off to London have they? What nonsense. You're again trying to paint a picture of champagne-quaffing nascent upper classes, when the reality is that anyone unwise enough to have invested in property over the last twelve years here is in deeper trouble than anyone.

The time has come for you to go back to reading the Irish Times and pretending that there's nothing wrong with the country.

And he finishes off by putting words in my mouth. I never said there was nothing wrong with the country. I said it was racist to stereotype Irish people as stupid, which it is. And if that's not patently obvious, there really is something wrong with you. Here try this experiment: replace the word "Irishman" in the op with "black man" and see how that goes down.

The country was bankrupted by a lying scumbag (Ahern) and an incompetent Finance Minister (Lenihan). Cowen was just a puppet.

That suggestion was quickly met with a fiery and typically bolshie response from Brian Cowen -- the man on whose watch as finance minister most of the worst crimes were committed. "We're not fucking nationalising Anglo," he shouted as he slammed the table.

I must have missed the great fornication debate that seems to be taking up 100% of the time of 100% of the politicians in the country. Oh wait, no I didn't, because it was one back country TD making one ridiculous comment.

Context is everything. The comments were made in the middle of a debate about

....women who were forced to travel abroad for medical terminations when they found the babies they were carrying were missing vital organs, like brains, and were completely unviable outside the womb.

More news you appear to have missed, the landlords of some twenty plus houses were forcibly evicted from their own palatial residence recently, there are plenty of unemployed solicitors, and even bankers have joined the dole queues. I know a few of them personally.

I'll just refer you and all your friends who have run off to London and transferred assets to their wives and children to this article on the grand delusions of property "victims".

Perhaps the time has come for you to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself who is looking back, because its not someone with a firm grasp on reality.

The time has come for you to go back to reading the Irish Times and pretending that there's nothing wrong with the country. Why don't you spend today reading their latest barrage of pro Fiscal Treaty propaganda. And while you're at it, ask yourself where a newspaper in the middle of a recession got the money to pay for all those columnists and shiny new supplements.

That's even if you are in Ireland, because nobody here refers to solicitors as "lawyers".

It's a collective term for barristers, laywers, and crooks. I suspect you're friends with quite a few yourself.

None. Really???

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/scotland-yard-suspends-8-officers-20-being-investigated-over-new-allegations-of-racism/2012/04/06/gIQAB3HGzS_story.html
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/president-pleads-for-a-tolerant-society-189495.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0404/breaking34.html

That's from a quick google search. I also have some personal experience...

A couple years ago, I lived in a neighborhood that had an apartment building that a large university (UCSD) would rent out for hundreds of Irish students to stay at during a summer exchange program. They (Irish students) would sometimes crash our local pub in large numbers (20+ people) completely wasted out of their minds. Usually they'd start speaking about us in gaelic (I guess they teach it in the schools over there nowadays, and the Irish students delighted in using it to talk crap about us), start smashing things, and on multiple occasions young Irish guys called my black friend a n**ger within ear shot. Every time they crashed the bar in numbers, the bartender(s) would eventually have to call the cops. The Irish kids would smash glasses and anything else they could get their hands on, then run off like a bunch of hooligans before the police showed up. And it wasn't like this only happened once with one group of students, it was a running joke at the bar because every summer the same thing would happen 4 or 5 times from a different group of Irish punks, I mean students.

My favorite part is that supposedly, this was the cream of the crop of Irish youth, students at prestigious universities that were well on their way to being productive members of Irish society... After my experience, I don't have a lot of respect for Irish "culture" anymore, nor do I have any interest in visiting the town in Ireland my family is supposed to be from originally.

so, youre on this website, and you are asking that question ? what are you ? a joke ?

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/not-so-gentle-persuasion-us-bullies-spain-proposed

http://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/ryle-dwyer/the-us-is-using-terror-tactics-and-attempting-to-bully-europeans-26838.html

we have discussed a lot of things like these on this very website. the fact that you are asking that question .... well, i wont spend too much effort to explain. youre either a shill, or you actually dont read the website youre participating, or, you are a zealot. there can be no other explanation for expressing strong opinion in a subject you dont know shit about.

Special ferries? They're regular ferries you tit, it's the easiest way to get to England from certain places. And "all kinds of hell"? No one cares if they get an abortion, it's there own business.

No one cares? Sure... Just one case from top of my head: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/mhausnojmhey/ http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0501/abortion.html 1940s? Hell yeah - more often than you think. Unfortunately.. :( Regards

The BBC has had 845 people jailed last year alone. In Ireland, 220 were jailed over the last 5 years.

Phillip

Even with current cellphones, off is not really off. When switched 'off' your phone still keeps track of the time, date and other settings that, with the battery removed completely, need to be reset.

On January 12, the body was found, partly with the help of advanced technology that tracked the phone in Robert's pocket.

For the past eight days, gardai admitted that Robert's clear-fascia Nokia 3200 - which was a Christmas gift from his parents - was crucial to their investigation and the possible location of the boy. Yesterday, sources within the mammoth search operation indicated to the Irish Independent that gardai were in a position to focus their search on specific locations thanks to a boosted signal from a strategic mobile phone mast in East Cork. The last trace of Robert before yesterday's discovery was a phone call he attempted to make at 2.36pm on January 4 last, just minutes after he left his home at Ballyedmond. Robert ran out of credit as he attempted to ring a friend - and then disappeared without trace until yesterday's grim discovery at Inch strand. However, telecommunications experts assisting the Garda hunt kept working on ways of possibly tracing a signal from his handset. It was felt that, if the signal from the key transmission mast could be significantly boosted, it could trace the handset even if the mobile was switched off. The only way that this effort would not work was if the handset had been disabled - or if it had been exposed to serious water damage. Until now, all that was known about Robert's phone was that his last call was diverted via the mobile phone mast in Cloyne - effectively ensuring the search radius included the greater Midleton and East Cork areas. Yesterday, members of the search campaign expressed belief that the telecommunications gurus provided the critical breakthrough the Gardai required.

Seems like the Irish government disagrees with that article: The Examiner

US INVESTIGATORS, including CIA agents, will be allowed interrogate Irish citizens on Irish soil in total secrecy, under an agreement signed between Ireland and the US last week.

Suspects will also have to give testimony and allow property to be searched and seized even if what the suspect is accused of is not a crime in Ireland.

Under 'instruments of agreement' signed last week by Justice Minister Michael McDowell, Ireland and the US pledged mutual co-operation in the investigation of criminal activity. It is primarily designed to assist America's so-called 'war on terror' in the wake of the September 11 atrocities.

[. . .]

Although the Department of Justice insists that the arrangement merely updates existing agreements, it goes much further. The US may ask Irish authorities:

-To track down people in Ireland.
-Transfer prisoners in Irish custody to the US.
-Carry out searches and seize evidence on behalf of the US Government.

It also allows US authorities access to an Irish suspect's confidential bank information. The Irish authorities must keep all these activities secret if asked to do so by the US.

The person who will request co-operation is US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the man who, as White House counsel, instigated the notorious 'torture memo' to US President George W Bush which advised how far CIA agents could go in torturing prisoners. The person to whom the request is sent is the Minister for Justice.

About 20,000 immigrants, who have not been charged with any crime, are currently in prison in the US. In two recent US Supreme Court cases, the US Government argued that US citizens could be imprisoned indefinitely without charge if the president designated them as "enemy combatants".

ICCL director Aisling Reidy said: "An extraordinary aspect to this treaty is, despite its scope and its potential to violate basic constitutional and human rights, that all this happened without debate or transparency.

-FL

There was a report on German TV last night about this kind of thing. The CIA kidnapping some guy in Italy and flying him to Ramstein Base in Germany. From there to bases in Middle East countries where the local laws allow them to be torutred. The Italians are trying to charge 12 CIA agents, but the pussy germans are convieniently ignoring these kidnapping crimes partially commited on german soil.

What is worse is this: http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Ful l_Story/did-sg46g7Ks0cvBEsg7OWirIStPSk.asp

US INVESTIGATORS, including CIA agents, will be allowed interrogate Irish citizens on Irish soil in total secrecy, under an agreement signed between Ireland and the US last week. Read the article, it gets worse.

I am really pissed off now. I am ashamed of what my country is tunring into. Blair is Bush's Poodle and Bertie(Irish PM) is Bush's bitch.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Ful l_Story/did-sg46g7Ks0cvBEsg7OWirIStPSk.asp