He fought extradition all the way to the UK supreme court and lost at every stage.
For perfectly valid reasons, toolbag. Which is why Ecuador granted him aslylum in the first place, and why the UN declared his de facto detention unjust and arbitrary. And he only lost appeals in the UK because the country is as much a poodle of the United States today as it was during the the Bush Administration. But there's even precedent for the UK to block extradition for alleged hackers because the United States has a medieval prison system.
Look, this isn't hard. If this was ever really about alleged rape allegations, all Sweden had to do was promise not to hand Assange over to the United States. Even if you think Assange was lying about returning to Sweden upon such a promise, Ecuador would no longer have a reason to give him asylum, meaning Sweden would have him back one way or the other.
...so all we owe him is a "thank you". If the truth is highly damaging to your candidate - you must have an extremely shitty candidate, one who deserves to lose.
he helped give us Trump, and he should have known better.
Assange didn't rig the DNC primary, wanted Trump as a general election opponent, force Hillary to be such a right wing warmongering racist, or prevent her from bothering to show up in the Rust Belt states that were decisive in the election.
That and the fact that Assange had offered to return to Sweden if the government would promise not to hand him over to the United States. Something Sweden could have easily done, as it is a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture, which forbids extraditing prisoners to countries that practice torture.
Countries like the United States.
This told anyone with a couple of functioning neurons that this was never really about an alleged rape, it was always a pretext to get Assange into American hands.
Not even for releasing the footage of the lawful Apache combat actions. (The actions in the footage are not crimes under the Laws of Land Warfare as outlined in the various conventions.)
You have three war crimes in that video:
Targeting civilians Targeting journalists Targeting first responders
And in a massively illegal war sold on lies. None of the liars or war criminals have been brought to account - but hey lets prosecute those who told us the truth!
He'll have thrown away 7 years of his life voluntarily and look like a narcissistic idiot (more so than he already does)
....is because if the UK tries to hand him over to the US, you will be the idiot. You and your fellow shitweasles crapping all over the guy who's done more journalism this century than any media source you can name.
Assange did good work with Wikileaks, years ago. Then he grew an inflated ego, and (um, literally) screwed around. Rather than face any charges (which, iirc, were never formally filed), he fled.
Horseshit. Assange always offered to return to Sweden if the government would promise not to use the charges as a pretext to hand him over to the United States, for the crime of being a journalist.
And guess what this arrest proves, dipshit: Assange was always right, and tools like yourself were always wrong. Or did you not notice the extradition hearing is going to be to the United States, NOT SWEDEN?
Even now, you can see the same old character assassination and word salads being tossed at Assange, when he is arrested and the immediate talk is of extraditing him to the United States, NOT SWEDEN. This whole farce was nothing but a pretext to get him in US custody so he can be prosecuted for being a journalist. I hope people in the press that have spent years sneering and smearing at Assange find their own dumb asses indicted the next time they publish classified information that is leaked to them.
Like Russiagaters after the Mueller report, and Iraq war superfans after no WMD's were found, it's time for you to not just apologize for ten years of bullshit, but eat it up with a spoon.
It's obvious that journalism needs new economic models, but WikiLeaks is NOT one of them.
What would you prefer - for Assange to be like Russia Madcow, who's paid $30,000 a day to lie to her viewers?
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.
Baseless tautology/character assassination, and the rest of your post continues in the same vien. Assange's arrest proves once and for all that the rape charges were always a farce, that it was always a pretext to get Assange into US custody, and it's time for his haters to eat shit. Same as the Russiagaters need to eat shit now that Mueller has wrapped his investigation with there being no collusion between Trump and Russia.
You mean get rid of the fairest tax ever invented? How about....no. And even if nothing was done with income taxes, it would be better to take money from the rich and shred it, as it would prevent a gross accumulation of power on their part.
Yes, and? Democrats are just another party of corporatist warmongers. Who as often as not are to the right of the GOP. See: Clinton gutting Welfare, Obama starting multiple wars without Congressional authorization, the last three years of Russiagate McCarthyism which sees the party attacking Trump from the right...
This isn't capitalism at work, this is its friend cronyism.
Capitalism is an inherently corrupting ideology. If you wont buy off regulators and politicians, your competitor will and drive you out of business, to the benefit of your competitor's shareholders.
Snail mail is a non sequitur in this context. WTF shouldn't the government offer free-to-use electronic filing on income taxes? As you are told up front, filing over the internet may save you weeks on getting a refund.
Nothing is free. Using tax revenue to undercut an entire industry that creates jobs doesn't really sit well.
If your industry is a parasite on the human race - then fuck your industry. Right up it's stupid ass, with a big dick. Lots of jobs were lost when slavery was banned in the United States - boo freaking hoo. More jobs were lost when asbestos was finally banned along with DDT and lead paint. Etc.
Most people are killed by members of their own race, whites included, and while Chicago isn't the most violent city, it is right next to Indiana with it's lax gun control laws. Any more spinning of racist confirmation biases, or are you done?
They wear the monitor and consent to it's use. Or they can stay at the Big House. Where's the lack of consent exactly?
Where's your head exactly?
Option A: Get lojacked with a device that records everyone around you
Option B: Go to jail. Where you can be beaten, raped and tortured. And if you stay there long at all you'll lose your house/job/kids. Even if you are completely innocent.
There's no more "consent" here than a bank "consents" to part with some cash when someone slips a threatening note to a teller.
We lock people up, they lose their rights to freedom, but they should be able to continue to vote? To me, that sounds utterly ridiculous and not at all about swinging a vote.
What's ridiculous is that when given a choice between being tough and being effective on crime, so many Americans choose to be tough. Punitive for the sake of being punitive. But when it comes to voting:
1) What do you think prisoners are going to do if they can vote? Elect Lex Luthor as president?
2) Do you love recidivism? Treat people like animals in prison and you'll have animals coming out of prison. Or would you rather have them rehabilitated so they can reintegrate into society in a healthy way. Doing healthy things like...voting.
3) If prisoners are going to be counted on the census to boost the representation of the district they're in, they should be able to vote for said representation.
A debt doesn't compel someone to show up for court dates - the threat of being arrested does. All bail does is give lazy and corrupt prosecutors a way to pressure poor people into pleading guilty to charges instead of contesting them in court.
It's not like Google was running around in 2005, telling everyone that they planned on tracking everyone and everything, even if you didn't use their products. But now they are a monopoly, and have been some time. And a note for would-be pedants: monopoly doesn't mean you have 100% marketshare. It means you have enough market dominance to harm consumers even if they don't use your products.
So you want to quit Google, and block all their known domains in your hosts file. Okay, cool - but the next biggest search engine is Bing, and Microsoft also tracks the hell out of users. It's not like consumers are going to develop a Borg hive mind and move to/fund Duck Duck Go or anything.
But it is pointless grandstanding at this point, as it will never get to Trumpy's desk, let alone him signing it.
You force the issue and get politicians on the record, so you can drive them out of office for it in future elections. Limiting yourself to "what we can pass now" is very poor strategy.
Except she didn't lie, dipshit. She has a native ancestor, exactly as she says she was told by her family. One she didn't use to gain any affirmative action placement in any job.
What's really embarrassing about this, is how easy it is to hit Warren on this without being full of shit. Just ask her why, if she's so proud of this native ancestry, why she sat around with her thumb up her ass while native americans were being sprayed with firehoses in freezing temperatures while protesting the DAPL pipeline.
It is impossible to completely prevent a data breach
Good thing that's a straw man, then. If your network is attacked by a zero-day exploit, particularly one done by a state intelligence agency, then there's not much you could have done and thus you wont face prison time. You host critical customer data on an unpatched Windows 2008 Server machine that's open to the internet? You're going to jail.
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No distinction or difference, dipper-shit. Getting Assange into US custody was always the plan, dippest-shit.
For perfectly valid reasons, toolbag. Which is why Ecuador granted him aslylum in the first place, and why the UN declared his de facto detention unjust and arbitrary. And he only lost appeals in the UK because the country is as much a poodle of the United States today as it was during the the Bush Administration. But there's even precedent for the UK to block extradition for alleged hackers because the United States has a medieval prison system.
Look, this isn't hard. If this was ever really about alleged rape allegations, all Sweden had to do was promise not to hand Assange over to the United States. Even if you think Assange was lying about returning to Sweden upon such a promise, Ecuador would no longer have a reason to give him asylum, meaning Sweden would have him back one way or the other.
Heads you're wrong, tails you're wrong.
...so all we owe him is a "thank you". If the truth is highly damaging to your candidate - you must have an extremely shitty candidate, one who deserves to lose.
Assange didn't rig the DNC primary, wanted Trump as a general election opponent, force Hillary to be such a right wing warmongering racist, or prevent her from bothering to show up in the Rust Belt states that were decisive in the election.
That and the fact that Assange had offered to return to Sweden if the government would promise not to hand him over to the United States. Something Sweden could have easily done, as it is a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture, which forbids extraditing prisoners to countries that practice torture.
Countries like the United States.
This told anyone with a couple of functioning neurons that this was never really about an alleged rape, it was always a pretext to get Assange into American hands.
You have three war crimes in that video:
Targeting civilians
Targeting journalists
Targeting first responders
And in a massively illegal war sold on lies. None of the liars or war criminals have been brought to account - but hey lets prosecute those who told us the truth!
Horseshit. Assange always offered to return to Sweden if the government would promise not to use the charges as a pretext to hand him over to the United States, for the crime of being a journalist.
And guess what this arrest proves, dipshit: Assange was always right, and tools like yourself were always wrong. Or did you not notice the extradition hearing is going to be to the United States, NOT SWEDEN?
Even now, you can see the same old character assassination and word salads being tossed at Assange, when he is arrested and the immediate talk is of extraditing him to the United States, NOT SWEDEN. This whole farce was nothing but a pretext to get him in US custody so he can be prosecuted for being a journalist. I hope people in the press that have spent years sneering and smearing at Assange find their own dumb asses indicted the next time they publish classified information that is leaked to them.
Like Russiagaters after the Mueller report, and Iraq war superfans after no WMD's were found, it's time for you to not just apologize for ten years of bullshit, but eat it up with a spoon.
What would you prefer - for Assange to be like Russia Madcow, who's paid $30,000 a day to lie to her viewers?
Baseless tautology/character assassination, and the rest of your post continues in the same vien. Assange's arrest proves once and for all that the rape charges were always a farce, that it was always a pretext to get Assange into US custody, and it's time for his haters to eat shit. Same as the Russiagaters need to eat shit now that Mueller has wrapped his investigation with there being no collusion between Trump and Russia.
You mean get rid of the fairest tax ever invented? How about....no. And even if nothing was done with income taxes, it would be better to take money from the rich and shred it, as it would prevent a gross accumulation of power on their part.
Yes, and? Democrats are just another party of corporatist warmongers. Who as often as not are to the right of the GOP. See: Clinton gutting Welfare, Obama starting multiple wars without Congressional authorization, the last three years of Russiagate McCarthyism which sees the party attacking Trump from the right...
Capitalism is an inherently corrupting ideology. If you wont buy off regulators and politicians, your competitor will and drive you out of business, to the benefit of your competitor's shareholders.
Snail mail is a non sequitur in this context. WTF shouldn't the government offer free-to-use electronic filing on income taxes? As you are told up front, filing over the internet may save you weeks on getting a refund.
If your industry is a parasite on the human race - then fuck your industry. Right up it's stupid ass, with a big dick. Lots of jobs were lost when slavery was banned in the United States - boo freaking hoo. More jobs were lost when asbestos was finally banned along with DDT and lead paint. Etc.
Your priorities are inverted, sir.
Most people are killed by members of their own race, whites included, and while Chicago isn't the most violent city, it is right next to Indiana with it's lax gun control laws. Any more spinning of racist confirmation biases, or are you done?
Where's your head exactly?
Option A: Get lojacked with a device that records everyone around you
Option B: Go to jail. Where you can be beaten, raped and tortured. And if you stay there long at all you'll lose your house/job/kids. Even if you are completely innocent.
There's no more "consent" here than a bank "consents" to part with some cash when someone slips a threatening note to a teller.
Uh huh. Was that before or after Obama's 537th attempt to personally come to your house and take your firearms away?
What's ridiculous is that when given a choice between being tough and being effective on crime, so many Americans choose to be tough. Punitive for the sake of being punitive. But when it comes to voting:
1) What do you think prisoners are going to do if they can vote? Elect Lex Luthor as president?
2) Do you love recidivism? Treat people like animals in prison and you'll have animals coming out of prison. Or would you rather have them rehabilitated so they can reintegrate into society in a healthy way. Doing healthy things like...voting.
3) If prisoners are going to be counted on the census to boost the representation of the district they're in, they should be able to vote for said representation.
That only works if you're well off or have a huge support network to front both bail AND legal fees at the same time.
A debt doesn't compel someone to show up for court dates - the threat of being arrested does. All bail does is give lazy and corrupt prosecutors a way to pressure poor people into pleading guilty to charges instead of contesting them in court.
It's not like Google was running around in 2005, telling everyone that they planned on tracking everyone and everything, even if you didn't use their products. But now they are a monopoly, and have been some time. And a note for would-be pedants: monopoly doesn't mean you have 100% marketshare. It means you have enough market dominance to harm consumers even if they don't use your products.
So you want to quit Google, and block all their known domains in your hosts file. Okay, cool - but the next biggest search engine is Bing, and Microsoft also tracks the hell out of users. It's not like consumers are going to develop a Borg hive mind and move to/fund Duck Duck Go or anything.
You force the issue and get politicians on the record, so you can drive them out of office for it in future elections. Limiting yourself to "what we can pass now" is very poor strategy.
Option A) Use products and services compromised by the NSA
Option B) Use competing products and services that are...also compromised by the NSA
Option C) Become a luddite and avoid electronics whenever possible
Occupy Wall Street was a mass protest. It was systematically crushed at the local, state and federal level.
Except she didn't lie, dipshit. She has a native ancestor, exactly as she says she was told by her family. One she didn't use to gain any affirmative action placement in any job.
What's really embarrassing about this, is how easy it is to hit Warren on this without being full of shit. Just ask her why, if she's so proud of this native ancestry, why she sat around with her thumb up her ass while native americans were being sprayed with firehoses in freezing temperatures while protesting the DAPL pipeline.
Good thing that's a straw man, then. If your network is attacked by a zero-day exploit, particularly one done by a state intelligence agency, then there's not much you could have done and thus you wont face prison time. You host critical customer data on an unpatched Windows 2008 Server machine that's open to the internet? You're going to jail.