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Supreme Court Rules Julian Assange May Be Extradited
sirlark writes with an update on the protracted legal proceedings regarding Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden: "Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has lost his Supreme Court fight against extradition to Sweden to face accusations of sex offenses. The judgement was reached by a majority of five to two, the court's president, Lord Phillips, told the hearing. Mr Assange's legal team was given 14 days to consider the ruling before a final decision is made, leaving the possibility the case could be reheard."
This may, however, not be the end. From the article: "Lord Phillips said five of the justices agreed the warrant had been lawful because the Swedish prosecutor behind the warrant could be considered a proper 'judicial authority' even it they were not specifically mentioned in legislation or international agreements. This point of law had not been simple to resolve, said Lord Phillips, and two of the justices, Lady Hale and Lord Mance, had disagreed with the decision. But Ms Rose immediately indicated she could challenge the judgement saying that it relied on a 1969 convention relating to how treaties should be implemented. She said this convention had not been raised during the hearing. " This led to the court staying the order until June 13th to give Assange's lawyers time to argue this avenue.
U$A's b*tch...
It feels that Julian are really afraid to be humiliated in the front of the whole world. He really needs public attention. That case in Sweden will be ugly, no matter what Julian intentions were when sleeping with these girls, if something nasty happened - there will be court, there will be judgment.
As I have always said - he is an arogant ass. Maybe results of his actions have created chain reaction, but in overall, it was very big noise over very little substance. Diplomacy is ugly truth we don't want to know when we buy those cheap mobile phones and food (yep, they are cheap). Exposing it is just like saying - life is difficult, to survive you have to live with some ugly stuff. Did it make people safer? No really. Arab spring? It was just a reason, a cause of it were much deeper. After all this happened, do people care what diplomats thing or do? Most of them don't.
We knew that ACTA sucks before Wikileaks. We knew that North African didactors are ruthless killers. We knew that Putin runs mafia in Russia. We knew all this.
In the end it was just a empty posture.
user@ubuntubox:~$ stfu This server is going down for shutdown NOW!
Yawn.
The mental gymnastics you have to do to go from, "Politically active woman has run in with creepo rapist megalomaniac with a revolutionary fetish" to "The US wants his head and is using this woman to get to him" is ABSURD. It's conspiratorial thinking AND slut shaming AND rape apologetics, now only if someone will tie this to male rights I'll hit internet male asshole bingo thanks to the free space.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Or possibly there are strong legal reasons why they can't do proxy interviews outside of their jurisdiction?
Or possibly even they were pissed off he did a runner from the country whilst under investigation for a serious crime?
Maybe there is a chance he is guilty according to Swedish law and he is going to try to do everything he can to stop himself from facing trial?
Recent case law and the special relationship between the UK and US (which is a pretty one sided relationship...) would usually imply that he's more likely to be extradited from the UK than Sweden. Sweden is an open, liberal democracy, the UK would hand him over to the US in a heartbeat (after 5 years of court appearances and trials...)
I'm quite impressed by how many tin foil hats he's managed to convince to crawl out of the woodwork in order to help him avoid having to face the accusations properly.
Working for the (other) man
I see. So you're saying that the US cleverly arranged for radical Swedish feminists to pass bad rape laws, caused numerous cases to be prosecuted under those ridiculous laws, then arranged for Assange to seduce two well-known women, who then faked their outrage and keep lying to the media and prosecutor (presumably getting paid a lot of money by the CIA for their perjury). Brilliant analysis!
"I'm of the opinion that rape is when you use violence or drugs to force someone to have sex with you. That doesn't seem to be the case here."
So you are saying that because you don't approve of Swedish rape laws, the US is guilty of a conspiracy?
It's clear that there is more than enough evidence that Assange may have violated Swedish rape laws, so the Swedes want him. That's all there is to the story.
Maybe the US will take advantage of the situation to extradite him, maybe not, but that doesn't exculpate Assange in Sweden and it doesn't show a conspiracy.