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Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt"
An anonymous reader writes "After a statement from a window at an upper floor from the Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange '... called on US President Barack Obama to "do the right thing" and for his government to "renounce its witch hunt against Wikileaks."'" However, the U.S. issued the following statement regarding Assange's stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy, "The United States is not a party to the 1954 OAS Convention on Diplomatic Asylum and does not recognize the concept of diplomatic asylum as a matter of international law,"
"The United States is not a party to the 1954 OAS Convention on Diplomatic Asylum and does not recognize the concept of diplomatic asylum as a matter of international law,"
hey, where's that coming from? The obama administration? could it be a proto-tyranny?
Hey, Jules, dude, lemme esplain...no, there is too much, lemme assum up. You put people's lives at risk. This isn't like leaking photos of the iPhone 5 innards. You may have very well gotten people killed because of your arrogance. You get no sympathy from me. Ever.
US will stop this one witch hunt when Assange and Wikileaks stops all of theirs. Or stops breaking laws.
... if he stops breaking laws, then the witch hunts will stop on both sides. Seems Assange has control of what happens and his decisions in the past have led to the current situation.
Oh wait
What a freakin' baby.....it's always somebody's fault other than his. He was probably the kind of kid that poked a wasp nest with a stick, and then blamed the wasp when he got stung.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
We all know there was no sexual assault, it's just a bunch of corrupt countries trying to quietly silence an individual that has exposed their corruption to the world.
Unfortunately, Assange is pretty screwed now. The countries he embarrassed will most likely get him by fair* means or foul because, after all, it's what they're good at.
*By fair, I mean they'll simply assassinate him and make it look like he suffered a stroke or something, rather than simply storming the embassy and shooting him.
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Yeah, I really don't care about the Wikileaks part of this. Bradley Manning can burn in hell for that mess. As for Assange, he needs to face the rape and molestation charges in Sweden. It's easy to forget that he is an accused rapist and needs to stand trial amidst all of the Wikileaks BS. Let Sweden try him. If he's found guilty clamp his balls in Bradley Manning's mouth and string them both up.
but they do recognize the international court of flying planes into buildings, perhaps they need another reminder
I think you miss the point of what the USA is doing here.
What is happening is that America (and most Americans) don't want the U.S. government to be subordinated below some global government. We've already seen what happens when sovereignty is surrendered to a more universal government, and for the most part we don't want to see that happen again. Once was enough and even then that universal government has likely gone too far.
You may like the fact that Germany is the same as Spain except for some quirky food and local slang differences. That still isn't an argument for a universal government or why America needs to join that government. Have fun with your games in the European Union, but the American Union is already seen as too powerful (sort of implied by your statements above I should note). You want to see a universal government over the whole world with that kind of unchecked power?
BTW, I sure hope you aren't an American or living in America. If you are, get the hell out of here. If America is such a crappy country, you aren't wanted here either. We will fix our problems in our own way. I should note that the reason you know about the problems in America is in part because we talk about them and don't hide them under the table like some countries do, such as perhaps Iran, China, and North Korea. Living in America as an ordinary citizen isn't nearly as bad as you make it out to be either.
We also recognize the international court of wiping out dark age dipshits that follow death cults founded by murderous psychopathic child rapists. Perhaps we need to liquidate more of you pieces of fucking dog shit.
Assange, you pissed off the wrong people. Dickhead.
I read it. Some web page says some fuckhead said some other fuckhead said....
Seriously, you geeks should just embrace creationism and anti vaccination stances with the amount of proof you require for things.
Geek community = absolute and endless jackassery
"Low on the rape scale."
Well, OK then, just a little bit of rape is cool.
"It's fine officer, I only raped and beat her a little bit, so you should let me be."
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
I lost family in Czechoslovakia because they committed the crime of wanting to decide who to vote for and what church to go to.
Half a million people (at least) have lost their liberty in the US because they committed the crime of possessing marijuana. Why is that more serious than the crimes you mentioned?
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