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Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com)
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder was granted refuge in 2012 while on bail in the UK over sexual assault allegations against him in Sweden. From a report: At the time, Assange claimed that if he was extradited to Sweden he might be arrested by the US and face charges relating to WikiLeaks's publication of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables. The journalist and Assange supporter John Pilger called last week for people to "fill the street outside the embassy and protect him and show solidarity with a courageous man." US authorities have never officially confirmed that they have charged Assange, but in November 2018 a mistake in a document filed in an unrelated case hinted that criminal charges might have been prepared in secret. London's Metropolitan police released a statement which said officers had executed a warrant after the Ecuadorian government withdrew asylum.
I know your pseudonym damages your credibility but perhaps you could at least fucking explain just what the fuck you think is wrong with 'nobody is above the law'.
Do you think Assange should be free to break any and all laws he chooses?
Do you think the British police should ignore him breaking the law?
Do you have evidence that the law is being inappropriately applied?
Are you just being a cunt?
The last question is rhetorical.
Hard to say if the CPS will go after him. On the one hand it would open up another can of worms for them, with Assange and Wikileaks going all out to show that he was at risk by releasing potentially sensitive information to use as evidence. There is also a good chance it wouldn't go anywhere - his legal team would argue that he already lost the bail money and spend 7 years in effective incarceration, so even if convicted no further punishment is merited.
On the other hand, he humiliated the government and caused it to waste many millions on policing outside the embassy. It's also likely that the US will want to get hold of him (they accidentally confirmed that there is an active prosecution) so there will be pressure from across the pond.
I imagine he has thought all this through and probably has some kind of insurance policy, something he can use as leverage if it goes badly.
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Hard to say if the CPS will go after him. On the one hand it would open up another can of worms for them, with Assange and Wikileaks going all out to show that he was at risk by releasing potentially sensitive information to use as evidence. There is also a good chance it wouldn't go anywhere - his legal team would argue that he already lost the bail money and spend 7 years in effective incarceration, so even if convicted no further punishment is merited.
Given someone was today given six months for skipping bail for a grand total of ten months I think the CPS will very much be expected to prosecuted.
That's not even factoring in that his arrest is explicitly _for_ skipping bail.
Actually now is the least-bad time for him to be arrested. He helped Trump's campaign, and they both share a raging hate-boner for Hillary. Perhaps he can expect a presidential pardon?
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
At least Hillary didn't make president. She would have hung, drawn and quartered him.
Maybe the USA has had time to cool off. Me? I'm betting he'll be over there within three months.
Assange worked for Putin.
Assange worried America would nab him.
Putin controls Trump.
Trump ain't gonna do shit.
Assange's worries are over.
Or maybe not. Remains to be seen.
Good God, give it a rest already.
There was no Trump/Russia collusion.
There WAS spying on the Trump campaign for political reasons by the Obama administration, and the lid is about to be blown off THAT.
Which is probably why Democrats and the media (BIRM) are shitting their pants right now.
You SURE you want to see the full Mueller report? The full contents of the documents directing what Mueller was to investigate remain secret. Hmm, what if he was also looking into the spying Obama did on Trump's campaign?
Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Yates, McCabe, Strzok, and maybe even Obama himself might be getting measured for orange jumpsuits right now.
it depends on whether the Crown Prosecution Service can be bothered to prosecute him for skipping bail.
Someone who skipped bail a few months back and fled abroad has returned to the UK voluntarily, saying he panicked and made a mistake and apologised in court for absconding. He got a sentence of six months for the bail offence added to his in-absentia sentence for manslaughter today.
Assange has been "on the run" for seven years after skipping bail and had to be dragged kicking and protesting from his hidey-hole and it's unlikely he will apologise in court for skipping bail. I don't see the Crown Prosecution Service thinking "well, he's not worth the effort of prosecuting for absconding while bailed" in those circumstances.
It's pretty rare for the legal establishment to disregard bail offences as it might encourage others to similarly offend, thinking "I can skip bail and nothing will happen to me."
Then in a month or two he will be killed in a regrettable car accident, or suffer a heart attack...
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
It's obvious that journalism needs new economic models, but WikiLeaks is NOT one of them. Having read several books about WikiLeaks, I think the underlying problem was the lack of a viable economic model. There was a good idea under there, but it was buried so deeply and Assange got so far away from any form of actual journalism that the cart got in front of the horse.
At first WikiLeaks actually understood that the documents should be vetted to make sure they weren't being used to propagate propaganda. Also real journalism requires considering the possible negative ramifications of the release of the information, as when an innocent person might get murdered because their identity is revealed to a vengeful criminal. Multiple sources are important, too, and it is very rare that information cannot be verified by some method or other.
However Assange rather quickly decided it was more important to prioritize the releases of information for maximization of the value to WikiLeaks, including how the information would affect the increasingly important financial donations WikiLeaks needed. Fairly early in the process, they were overwhelmed with more information than they knew what to do with, so they were forced to start picking and choosing what to reveal, and when, and that is when Assange started tasting the poisonous fruit. Follow the money.
Solution time? My own proposed solution approach for the economic troubles of journalism would be a solution-based approach. The readers would be able to contribute to solution projects with the journalists earning a percentage for revealing and publicizing the problems. I think there would also need to be an independent entity (I call it the charity share brokerage) that would provide project guidance and evaluation, as well as handling the money.
Disappointed but not surprised that I couldn't find any substantive comments here on Slashdot, and especially not among the trolls' mods. Enough time for now, so I bid you ADSAuPR, atAJG.
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Kinda interesting why he got booted, though: Changing political landscapes back in Equador.
Not quite. Increasing payments to a very limited number of Ecuadorian politicians. Washington is very free with its dollars, while they still have any value. Soon enough they will be waste paper, so it's understandable they want to squeeze the juice while the racket still works.
Who are now in bed with Chinese firms to roll out facial reconition to track all citizens in public "for safety".
Ironic, as the UK has the highest density of public surveillance cameras in the world.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
The person facing a manslaughter charge left the country before the case came to trial, absconding while on bail. After he returned voluntarily to the UK he pled guilty to absconding while on bail and received a 6-month sentence for that particular offence, mitigated by his voluntary return to custody, pleading guilty to absconding and apologising for absconding in the first place.
The British judicial system has specified tariffs for sentencing including reduction in sentences for pleading guilty, showing remorse and other factors. I can't really see Julian Assange getting treated as lightly in his case given he was expelled from the Embassy but had to be taken from there by British police since he wouldn't leave voluntarily. I don't expect him to plead guilty to absconding since he's JULIAN ASSANGE! after all and as for showing remorse for absconding well...
The severity of the crime they are originally charged with does not affect whether the offence of absconding while on bail should be prosecuted or not. It's a separate offence that is taken seriously by the British judicial system.
The "ruling" on arbitrary detention can legitimately be laughed at because its ridiculous.
The problem with that ruling is that it didn't just declare Assanges time in the Ecuadorean embassy as "arbitrary detention" - that might have had credit.
No. The ruling in fact declared that Assange was "arbitrarily detained" from the moment he was arrested by British police to face the extradition warrant, several years prior to his abscondment to the embassy.
Yes, that's correct - the UN working group considers the judicial process of responding to a legal and valid extradition request to be "arbitrary detention". They apparently seemingly find the British legal system, which allowed Assange representation of his choosing, and repeated appeals to the highest courts in the land, to consist of "arbitrary detention".
Which is why the UN ruling can be dismissed out of hand. It's an absurd ruling, to say the least.
You don't expose Hillary and just walk away.
Not that he walked away. Spending 6 years cooped up in a single building in down town London is not exactly living the good life and has got to be a mental strain. Based on the video I saw, the guy has not aged well and appears to be a mental case now. Of course that's what his hosts are saying about him, that they didn't think it was healthy for him to continue to be under house arrest like he was.
I suspect that he's not really in all that much danger. He may be in jail for the majority of what remains of his life, but the last 6 years where not kind to him to start with. He may be much better off, though less visible in the years to come. If indeed he has mental issues now, he can get treatment. I wish him the best, but we all knew he was either going to die in the embassy under effective house arrest or face the music someday.
And about exposing Hillary... She exposed herself, (that's a mental picture I wish I hadn't seen) Julian just pointed it out like the little boy who said the "Look! The emperor has no clothes". Trump benefited as a result. So in a way, you can blame Julian for at least part of Hillary's loss.... (As if she needs any more items on her "it's not my fault" list.)
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If I had points I would mod you up. You are correct the indictment is for hacking. Seems helped Manning hack a password for the SPIPRNET Though manning had access to TS Level information it is compartmentalized and your not just able to get data from the State Department and other entities. Assange helped him by providing information how to do it. Thus becoming a co-conspirator to the hacking. The indictment is floating around various news sites for anyone to see.
I love getting you true cowards spun up. Seems your hero Assange is out of a job, so why don't you troll around for traitors and take up his recently vacated position.
You can think that all you want, people with a brain know Assange has been stalked with trumped up charges from the very corrupt people he's been exposing,
And the earth is flat, the moon landings were a hoax, O'Blama is a Kenyan citizen, and Chemtrails are loaded with chemicals that emasculate males, and Pizzagate is real and ongoing.
Do go on though, I love what you post. Do you have a newsletter, or at least T-shirts.
Not my problem, the science says I can tell you the truth and you won't believe it. You gullibly believe evolution has selected for reality perceiving brains, when there is overwhelming evidence from religion most human beings were not. So that means there's inequality in perception and hence inequality in accurate perceptions of reality. You've provided no evidence for your position. The US government is known to be corrupt and has a huge history of corruption and that is well documented in academic circles. But it's obvious from your posts your not educated enough to talk about these things.
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Actually, under Trump the investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein child prostitution ring is being reopened. You know, Jeffrey Epstein of "lolita express" fame, which Bill Clinton was a regular flyer?
You're conveniently ignoring the fact that Epstein also has ties to Trump, and the underage girl who accused Trump of rape during the presidential campaign.
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