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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian:
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has asked a UK court to drop the arrest warrant that prevents him from leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been living for five and a half years. Assange, 46, skipped bail to enter the embassy in 2012 in order to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault and rape, which he denies... Mark Summers QC told senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot at Westminster magistrates court on Friday that now that the Swedish case had been dropped the warrant had "lost its purpose and its function". He said because Swedish extradition proceedings against Assange had come to an end, so had the life of the arrest warrant... Arbuthnot said she would give her judgment about the arrest warrant on 6 February.
Judge Arbuthnot said she'd rule only on the legal issue, though the court had also received evidence about medical problems which included "a terrible bad tooth, frozen shoulder and depression."
Representing the Crown Prosecution Service, Aaron Watkins it would be absurd for defendants to be "rewarded with effective immunity" simply for having evaded proceedings for long enough.
Judge Arbuthnot said she'd rule only on the legal issue, though the court had also received evidence about medical problems which included "a terrible bad tooth, frozen shoulder and depression."
Representing the Crown Prosecution Service, Aaron Watkins it would be absurd for defendants to be "rewarded with effective immunity" simply for having evaded proceedings for long enough.
Fuck him
Technically, he still broke laws in the UK by evading arrest.
"no, you coward. you'll face, in person, everything you ran away from"
The UK arrest warrant has nothing to do with the European Arrest Warrant. The UK one is for skipping bail. It doesn't matter whether or not the Swedish government is still pursuing him, he has committed a crime in the UK which is an arrestable offence regardless of his innocence of the charge he was facing.
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He was accused of rape in Sweden. He fought extradition right up the UK Supreme Court where he lost. He then skipped bail and fled to the Ecuadorian embassy, the Ecuadorians being keen to tweak the nose of the US.
Now even if the Swedes have dropped charges he's still got a problem of skipping bail. So he claims to be depressed, have a bad tooth and so on.
I say let him spend the rest of his life in the Ecuadorian embassy. If he comes out, nail him for skipping bail.
It's absurd how he claims that because of his work on Wikileaks he should be immune to any sort of legal process. Even the corrupt politicians that Wikileaks was set up to expose didn't have as Louis XIV view of the privileges of their position as that.
Look at this documentary
http://vimeo.com/38670049
Nick Davies of the Guardian said
He said this was always part of our agreement, now if heâ(TM)d said that to you or somebody else it would have been a lie but he might have had some chance of being believed, but he was saying it to me. Iâ(TM)m the guy that made the agreement with him; Iâ(TM)d had multiple conversations about this agreement. He made it up, but I thought what was interesting was I think he believes the things that he invents, so when he says that to me I think at that moment he believes it which makes it worth saying. And itâ(TM)s the same when for example heâ(TM)s talking about the two women in Sweden and tries to pretend that this is all dirty tricks by the Pentagon. I think he believes it.
I think most people who get close to him goes through this process, you start off liking and trusting him and then suddenly this kind of monster appears from behind the scenes and youâ(TM)re where on earth did that come from? You suddenly discover this this extraordinary dishonest man. I donâ(TM)t, I donâ(TM)t know that Iâ(TM)ve ever met a human being as dishonest as Julian.
The Guardian said that when he was asked about redaction of the names of informants he said ""They are American informants - they deserve to die". He denies this, but look at this OfCom report and his comments on 'villagers':
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__dat... page 115-116
Interviewer: "So come on, redactions are going on at the same time, now there is or isn't a row going on about redaction, I haven't the faintest clue whether there is or isn't...?
Mr Assange: No, there's no row going on about redactions at all....There was a group of reports where although they were not really intelligence informants there were sort of hotline tips...something called threat reports comprised one in five of the Afghan War Logs and so we held them back for a line by line redaction...But what we didn't do was redact one in five lines, putting black marker through it, we just removed them, and so it looked like we hadn't redacted everything but in fact we had redacted a fifth of all material, and this permitted an attack, a political attack, to come from The Times of London.... So The Times did a proxy war on The Guardian through us by attacking us.... So most of those names were meant to be there, it is right for them to be published, it is right to publish the names of politicians, generals bureaucrats, etc, who are involved in this sort of activity, it is right even to publish the names of corrupt radio stations in Kabul that were taking SYOPS programme content. It is also right to publish the names of those people who have been killed and murdered and who need to be investigated and it is right to publish the names of all incidental characters who themselves are not at serious and probable risk of physical harm. Those incidental characters are someone who owns a company for example is just involved in shipping operations.... So then there is the question were there any sort of villagers or so on who gave informat
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Representing the Crown Prosecution Service, Aaron Watkins it would be absurd for defendants to be "rewarded with effective immunity" simply for having evaded proceedings for long enough.
Isn't that the way things normally happen, except for crimes like murder? In the United States it is called the Statute of Limitations.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
A good way to not be under house arrest for 6 years is to answer the charges for which you are under indictment.
Julian Assange, if he is innocent, should have no problem appearing before a judge and jury.
He should be assassinated! Or was that because he revealed the war crimes of the Bush administration, I'm not sure.
... has a lot of followers and massive, embarrassing leaks could surface if someone pisses him off.
What's the status of the Insurance Torrent that was so dominant in 2013?
Wikileaks insurance files, just in case the worst happens
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
He wants to move out of his Ecuadorian mom's basement because she wants him to get a job and doesn't believe his "really bad tooth" story any more.
You are welcome on my lawn.
For death by heart attack or suicide. Keep an eye out. They'll blame the tooth ache and shoulder thing if they give him a heart attack or the depression from being stuck in an Embassy and the pressure from this whole thing if they decide to make it look like a suicide.
... the UK is flooded with other requests to drop arrest warrants because, "... and I broke a nail ..."
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
The rape allegation is nothing but a pretext to get him into custody so he may be interrogated by or outright handed over to the United States. If it wasn't, the government of Sweden would have taken up Assange years ago on his offers to be interviewed by investigators remotely or in person at the embassy. Or to return to Sweden outright if they promised not to hand him over to U.S. custody.
The response to this inconvenient fact is generally a pithy "since when do wanted suspects get to negotiate terms". Well, since cops negotiate with suspects all the time. Lets say Dallas cops had Micah Xavier Johnson on the phone and were trying to get him to surrender. They would of course say no to crazy demands like a million dollars and a getaway car. But if Johnson had offered to give himself up on the condition that he not be flown to Guantanamo to be tortured, the SWAT commander would roll his eyes and say "sure, we wont fly you to Cuba, so drop your guns and walk out with your hands up".
Assange's fear of being handed over to the U.S. isn't remotely crazy, though, since Sweden handed people over to the CIA who were then tortured and Obama had Manning tortured with months of solitary confinement. So, yeah, a suspect gets to negotiate terms when dealing with entities known for kidnapping and torture, two things the people screaming about alleged rape DGAF about.
The response to that is a pithy "well Assange offered to give himself up if Obama commuted Manning's sentence so he's bluffing". EXCEPT - the very credible threats of persecution and torture is why Ecuador granted Assange asylum in the first place. If Sweden were to take extradition and interrogation by the U.S. off the table, the reason for that asylum disappears. So if this is really about alleged rape, let it be about the alleged rape and nothing else. Either Sweden takes Assange up on his offer because the threat is real, or Sweden takes Assange up on his offer so Ecuador will show him the door.
Any mention of Rapey McGobshite sure brings out the idiots and bots.
Here's a brutal, blunt FUCK YOU to the alt-right and Russian bots flooding this story. You know deep down that America is the light on the hill in this world, yet you insist on publicly degrading yourselves by pretending that Russia and China are no worse than America, and spreading the dirty lie that the occasional lapse from the West is evidence that everything that came out of the Enlightenment is worthless, and that we should just let the mafias, mass-murders and authoritarians of the world take an explosive shit all over the world forevermore. Because MUH WESTERN HYPOCRISY.
Why are you basement-dwelling, incel, froggy libertoon cunts such worthless, degraded, sub-human trash? Because Daddy didn't love you, and your Judas complex compels you to betray your nation and culture? Get fucked, assholes.
So suck my dick, right-wing haters. I hope you all die of cancer.
from the Sweedish note about invastigation dropping:
https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
– If he, at a later date, makes himself available, I will be able to decide to resume the investigation immediately, says Marianne Ny.
So the moment he steps out all will be restarted. Pretty sure the extradition papers are ready to be filed immediately (first Sweden then US).
And likely the UK charges of breaking the bail and avoiding arrest will never be dropped.
If it was me I would decide to step out and let the legal storm start and yes, likely ending up in US. Otherwise he is stuck in the embassy forever.
What penalty is he facing in US being now citizen of Ecuador and Australia?
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It's costing us, the UK tax payer, about £10k per day for the policing. Quite frankly, it's a colossal waste of money at a time where the amount of public spending available cannot be pissed up the wall on something like this.
Part of that daily money would be better spent purchasing him a one way ticket to Ecuador, escorting him to Heathrow, onto the aeroplane and then waving him goodbye.
And then we can go back to spending that kind of money on far far more important things.
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He has himself to blame. Not f*cking just one, but TWO crazy women in the same week!
Fuck THEM. It’s them who are at fault for not being able to secure the arrest of Assange. So why should they be “rewarded” by punishing Assange?
You seem to be throwing out terms without understanding their meaning.
Could you please indicate where corruption occurred and which civil rights were abused?
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You fucking moron. The U.K. had him in custody and allowed him to remain in the U.K. under restricted terms until the legal issues played out. They could've handed him over to the U.S. right there. But they didn't.
The U.S. does not give a shit about this smelly little Aussie, However, Assange has not exactly endeared himself with the Brits.
Assange believes that the USA thought it would be easier to extradite him from Sweden then the UK, probably correctly. His move to Equador's embassy was unexpected.
The bail charges are trivial. Unlike the USA, the UK does not hand out long sentences for minor crimes. In Assange's case, a suspended sentence or at worst a few month in what, by USA standards, would be a very comfortable jail.
That is obviously not Assange is worried about. He is worried about the USA, and the sealed (secret) grand jury case against him.
Is Assange correct? Probably not, but I would not bet my life on that.
Mind you, he was accused of "Rape" (whatever that really means these days) and so must be guilty.
Must have been an odd sort of rape if the Swedes did not press charges once they questioned Assange. Maybe the fact that the women involved did not want to press charges had something to do with it. Or that they socialized with Assange *after* the alleged "Rape", and just wanted Assange to have an STD check, which he belatedly did.
Were the Swedes puppets of the USA? Probably not. The case just got taken on by a belligerent SJW prosecutor, who is now probably very relieved that the case has expired and she does not have to front court. Incidentally, statute of limitations do not apply to people once they have been charged, which is why she would never interview Assange and then have to either charge him or drop the charges, either of which would not have been good for her.
Is Assange's paranoia about the USA wanting to extradite him out of Sweden justifiable? Hard to say. They were certainly angry about the Manning leaks, and Assange almost certainly helped and encouraged Manning to do the leaks. But I would not bet my life on it either way.
The Bail charges are trivial. At worst a very few months jail, probably just a suspended sentence. This is not about bail.
Fucking commie traitor.
Omar Zayed had fled to embassy to escape extradition for killing of Israeli student; Palestinians say Israel assassinated him, Jerusalem denies it https://www.timesofisrael.com/...
R U aware that Assange is now in Switzerland under US protection?
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I'd walk out of the embassy, get arrested, then deported. The US state dept. (Trump) will *not* extradite him. If they do, he gets an offer from Mueller that he can't refuse and walks off scot free after a few speaking engagements in federal court.