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Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador
david.emery writes "Julian Assange, his appeals in the United Kingdom having run out, today went to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to request asylum from his pending extradition to Sweden to face questioning for 'unlawful coercion and sexual misconduct including rape.'"
The first thing a swedish official would tell him the moment his plane lands would be: "Sorry about that, charges have been dropped, but those CIA agents over in that other plane are going to have a word with you. Goodbye."
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
No, he's not *afraid* of it. He *knows* it. This whole thing was such an obvious setup from the get-go that I'm surprised the CIA had the balls to even try it. Shit, even Dominique Strauss-Kahn was less obvious than this mess.
Excuse me, Sir, but your tinfoil hat has slipped a bit to the side. You probably want to get it more firmly back on your head again.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
He is not *in trouble for not using a condom*. He is in trouble for obtaining a sex act that the other partner did not consent to, and initiating a sex act whilst the partner is asleep. He's in trouble for RAPE. RAPE. RAPE. Stop spreading ridiculous lies.
Incredible how ideological patrolling is taking place here at Slashdot.
No one can say anything a bit harsh and/or contrary to the political correctness - no matter being true or not - and is gifted by a nice "troll" label.
As a matter of fact, this is becoming something to be proud of.
Lisias@Earth.SolarSystem.OrionArm.MilkyWay.Local.Virgo.Universe.org
This is an inaccurate depiction of events, as was established in the 2011 extradition hearing. Specifically, Assange's lawyer lied: The Swedes asked him for questioning. On hearing this news, Assange then refused to report in as he should have, but instead fled the country.
http://assangewatch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/bjorn-hurtig-has-some-explaining-to-do.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/08/julian-assange-extradition-hearing-texts
As for the charges being picked up again, there's any number of reasons why this might be so. Perhaps new witness testimony emerged. Perhaps the note that on the day the charges were initially dropped, the two women issued a complaint to the Swedish public prosecutions is significant. Perhaps it was the fact that the charges were initially dropped after 24 hours of examination by the city's chief prosecutor and then picked up again by a sex crimes specialist?
We don't know at this point. But it shouldn't really make sense for the timeline of events that actually took place to be consistent with the conspiracy theories. Why, we should ask, if this was all an American plot, was the charges dropped from Assange ahead of the cables leak (when everyone suspected he had the cables), and then only reinstated after the cables were already passed on and so capturing Assange pointless?