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Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police
An anonymous reader writes "London's Metropolitan Police have delivered an 'Extradition Notice' to Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, who sought refuge and political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London last week. Scotland Yard have said in a brief statement that 'the notice requires Julian Assange to attend a police station of our choosing at a set time.' SY also said, 'This is standard procedure in extradition cases and is the first step in the removal process. He remains in breach of his bail conditions and failure to surrender would be a further breach of those conditions and he is liable to arrest.' However, under international diplomatic arrangements, the British Metropolitan Police cannot actually go into the Ecuadorian embassy to arrest Mr Assange. Assange would have to leave the embassy to be lawfully arrested. This raises the following question of course: Is this the 'endgame' for Julian Assange as far as extradition is concerned? If the Ecuadorians fail to grant Assange political asylum, which is a possibility, will he be arrested by Metropolitan Police, and sent to Sweden to stand trial for two alleged counts of 'rape?' Will Sweden then hand Assange over to the United States, where many well known and quite senior politicians have publicly stated that they think 'Assange should be punished severely' for publishing confidential U.S. diplomatic cables on Wikileaks?"
And the scare quotes help clear up that inconsistency how?
They don't. Because they weren't meant to.
And we've been in a recession pretty much every day since, the middle class is rapidly deteriorating into the working poor, the national debt is ballooning, and all those trillions that got sucked out of the economy to fund the war effort means our national infrastructure is going to pieces -- bridges are falling into rivers, half of New Orleans was wiped off the face of the planet and there's no money to repair it, there are mass water shortages across most of the southern part of the country, and the list goes on.
Half that list is exaggeration or outright fabrication and the rest is a list of things that were occurring without Al Qaeda.
Next you'll be blaming childhood obesity and the Cold War on OBL and Al Qaeda.
That's funny, because the women went to police not to seek prosecution but to make him take an AIDS test. So it seems they didn't want to press any charges. Funny that.
So, now that you've been shown you were wrong in your claim that " it's not rape by any english language definition. " you're moving on to...what?
Some nonsensical assertion that, what, police don't have police powers? That only a victim can insist charges be pursued?
What's your point? I bet it's that you think the US government insisted he be prosecuted, isn't it? But you're too cowardly to say it, so you insinuate it.
Which suddenly makes your desire to defend the scare quotes make a lot of sense.
They identify that there IS a very serious inconsistency.
Except there isn't.
I'm amazed theres a sleeper astro turfer with such an old UID. Must only come out for the important Fed astro turfing.
None of that matters; it's the use of quotation marks around the word "rape" that will cause of us to doubt his guilt
No, it's your use of the scare quotes around rape that minimizes a rape, regardless of whether you agree with the definition.
But you keep banging on me about the fact that I dislike the idea of playing semantic games with rape accusations.
And by the way, I think the whole thing is bullshit too. You seem to think that because I won't allow you and people like you to do shady underhanded shit with scare quotes that I want Assange in jail.
You're minimizing a rape allegation.
That makes you scum. Period.
Wow. I looked at your posts briefly and 3 new astro turfing posts
So, do you do anything other than minimize rape allegations and call names to people you can't debate?
By the way, "That makes you scum. Period."
Except there is
No, there isn't.
which does not fit any reasonable definition of the word "rape"
Sweden disagrees.
Right, so when a country makes overly expansive definitions of crimes,
So, now that it's been shown that you were lying when you claimed it "does not fit any reasonable definition of the word "rape"" you expect debate?
Perhaps if you hadn't openly lied as your initial tactic.
And as an aside, you provided a small explanation with those scare quotes, which was my suggestion, so thanks for proving my point.
but I've already WON the debate
You've called names and made silly accusations, you haven't even begun to debate.
Sweden already DROPPED
Has fuckall to do with any of my points.
How much more evidence of a witch hunt do you need?
I thought that from the beginning.
Had you spent more time learning to read, and less time learning to call names, you'd relaize my problem was with minimizing rape. THAT'S ALL.
The funny thing is you used the classic internet troll "I WIN" but you don't even understand what you're discussing, and your tirade just proved it.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND? I NEVER THOUGHT ASSANGE WAS GUILTY, AND HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THE CHARGES WERE THIN, YOU JUST DON'T HAVE THE INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND THAT APPARENTLY.
"but I've already WON the debate"
You've called names and made silly accusations, you haven't even begun to debate.
"Sweden already DROPPED"
Has fuckall to do with any of my points.
"How much more evidence of a witch hunt do you need?"
I thought that from the beginning.
Had you spent more time learning to read, and less time learning to call names, you'd relaize my problem was with minimizing rape. THAT'S ALL.
The funny thing is you used the classic internet troll "I WIN" but you don't even understand what you're discussing, and your tirade just proved it.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND? I NEVER THOUGHT ASSANGE WAS GUILTY, AND HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THE CHARGES WERE THIN, YOU JUST DON'T HAVE THE INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND THAT APPARENTLY.
If I had mod points I'd be running through modding down every single one of his posts
Of course you would, you call names when you lose debates, why wouldn't you be expected to be childish there too?
What if he really did rape these two girls? Will you still hold him in high regard?