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2010-12-07 Britain

Julian Assange arrested by British police

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Posted by tipper 2010-12-07 05:46|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Remember they didn't get Capone on racketeering charges, but on income tax evasion [cause he couldn't swing an government appointment with the administration].

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-12-07 06:56|| 2010-12-07 06:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Update
WikiLeaks 'will continue releasing documents'

Posted by tipper 2010-12-07 10:26|| 2010-12-07 10:26|| Front Page Top

#3 This is getting serious for WikiLeaks - Visa and Mastercard
Visa suspends all payments to WikiLeaks

Posted by tipper 2010-12-07 10:57|| 2010-12-07 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Wikileaks are for-hire mercenaries - Cryptome

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-12-07 18:02|| 2010-12-07 18:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Mr. Assange apparently walked into the police station and turned himself in. NPR had a report on the charges, and it sounds as much a misunderstanding due to cultural differences as general caddish behaviour by a man who thinks himself entitled.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-07 19:16|| 2010-12-07 19:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Hello TW - in actual fact the women never complained about sex with Assange. They only went to the police to find him so he could be tested for STDs.
The prosecutors made a rape charge out of that.

It's just a pretext so the US can get extradition and try him for espionage, and lock him up forever.

If the US does this it will lose forever any semblance of fairness, or of being a beacon of liberty in the world, which it has been until now.

It will become just another scary big power like China or Russia. Not democratic, not with respect for rule of law untainted by the polity. Just another Party dictatorship.

Posted by anon1 2010-12-07 22:45|| 2010-12-07 22:45|| Front Page Top

#7 If we scrubbed this POS from the face of the Earth...I would be surprised. Then take a nap

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-07 22:55|| 2010-12-07 22:55|| Front Page Top

#8 If the US does this it will lose forever any semblance of fairness, or of being a beacon of liberty in the world, which it has been until now.

It will become just another scary big power like China or Russia. Not democratic, not with respect for rule of law untainted by the polity. Just another Party dictatorship.

IF we so much as charge him with the espionage he is most certainly guilty of?

That would make us equivalent in your mind to the empires of the gulag and the laogai?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-07 23:14|| 2010-12-07 23:14|| Front Page Top

#9 It's just a pretext so the US can get extradition and try him for espionage, and lock him up forever.

Mr. Assange is trafficking in stolen property for the stated purpose of making my government non-functional. Should my government become non-functional, it will not be able to fight against those who might give you a chance to convert and wear a burqah, but intend to kill every Jew on the planet, including me and the trailing daughters. Me knowing that the government of Pakistan secretly passed information on jihadis to the government of Israel, that Turkey has been supporting Iran's effort to obtain nuclear weapons, or that some junior functionary toiling in the American embassy in Paris thinks President Sarkozy is a posturing pissant does not have nearly the weight to me of preventing a group of viciously insane men and women from completing what Hitler tried to do to my parents.

So I don't care if the charges on which Mr. Assange was arrested are trumped up, although it's my personal opinion -- as a child of the '80s, when AIDS was noticed -- that any man who has multiple s3x partners and refuses to use condoms should be shot out of hand* as a deliberate threat to the survival of the species... which no doubt that is the basis for the Swedish law. But it has become my considered opinion Mr. Assange should be treated like a spy instead of a potential spreader of deadly diseases, which nowadays means a lifetime stay in Guantanamo Bay or in solitary confinement for the rest of his life in that Super Max prison.

* Sometimes selfishness is the kind of stupidity that gets Darwin involved.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-07 23:49|| 2010-12-07 23:49|| Front Page Top

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