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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faced a "difficult choice" in defying a British police order for extradition to Sweden, one of his lawyers said Friday.
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Hope you make it to Equador and continue to hack and expose what is going on at the top. Please continue your brilliant work!
He IS adding things to his criminal list however. Bail jumping, failure to appear by court order... Followed soon with: escape from custody to Sweden, failure to appear in Sweden, another international warrant for UK and for Sweden (much more official than the last he tried to avoid). He is making himself pretty much a wanted man anywhere in the world and his backers aren't liking that and leaving.
"Bottom line: Rape is rape
Sexual assault charges must be taken seriously even if accused is a liberal darling"
Excerpt,
"One woman says Assange forced her to remove her clothing, ripped her necklace, forced her legs apart and was "violent." She thought he tore his condom on purpose, and refused to get an AIDS test when she demanded one.
The second woman said she woke up in the morning to find Assange having unprotected sex with her. She, too, demanded an AIDS test. ............. Assange refused
The charges against Julian Assange are not that he was a bad date, or that he didn't call women back. It's that he is a rapist. If those charges are false, you'd think he'd want to get back to Sweden as soon as possible to clear things up, not fight extradition there like his life depended on it."
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Ummm... for what? The USA isn't asking for him, according to them he isn't wanted for anything.
Related note: There is an american in Sweden who is wanted for AWOL... Sweden has already said they are not giving him up and he is actually wanted for something. (http://www.thelocal.se/41732/20120629/)
And there are many more like that...
So where do you get this Sweden will do it attitude?
What does he have to worry about going to Sweden for? If he's convicted the most time he'll do is 3-4 months.
"Assange faces questioning in Sweden "
No, he has already been questioned, these are the statements made to the police.
http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/docs/memoria.pdf
(English translation)
http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/docs/protocol.pdf
If the USA wanted him they would have gotten him extradited from the UK. He would be so much safer in Sweden. The UK and the USA are great friends.
1) The documents he released put American lives at risk
2) The documents he released put UK lives at risk
3) The documents he released put Swedish lives at risk
4) The documents he released put civilians in Muslims countries at risk
1 Because the terrorists can use some of the info to recruit
2 Because terrrorists might find it easier to hit a UK target.
3 ...... or Swedish
4 Because USA soldiers who have made mistakes (killed civilians in error) may no longer report them for fear of leakage. More mistakes of the same manner could be repeated rather than being sorted by the commanding officers.
One thing remains when you strip it down. He released them for his own fame. When you read the questions put to him by the Swedish police and his answers you will see this for yourself. You will also see exactly what he is accused of and who accused him instead of the misinformation you are being fed by other ignorant (about the subject) people.
And anyway..... if the Ecodorians grant him refuge how is he going to get to South America? It's not going to happen. We will pick him up on the way.
Second, no one knows if there is already a sealed indictment, least of all the idiots who claim the U.S. doesn't want to prosecute Assange.
Third, U.S. propaganda to the contrary, there is no evidence that any lives were put at risk or any individuals harmed as a result of the publication of the cables.
Fourth, many, many innocent people have been killed by U.S. drone strikes and bombings, however, and the U.S. just keeps on killing them.
Fifth, Sweden's role in rendition flights that send people to be tortured was revealed by Wikileaks, so Sweden has every incentive to get revenge on Assange.
Sixth, Assange was safer in the UK because it has more of a functioning legal system than Sweden.
Seventh, the women are not especially credible. They conferred before going to the police and had every opportunity to collude.
Eighth, the U.S. war crimes that Wikileaks revealed are much more serious than anything that Assange did, so how about if we prosecute war criminals and only after that consider going after the person who exposed them?
A crime is a crime, no matter if it is done by government officials or an individual. Sex assault is a serious crime and should not be ignored because of the hero status of one individual.
Assange needs to stop hiding behind the work he did for Wikileaks and go defend himself.
Both the UK and Sweden may well have a motive for doing Assange harm. that is not the issue. The reason Sweden is more likely to extradite Assange to the U.S. is that Sweden does not have a functioning judicial system, as the Swedish Government's intervention in this case makes perfectly clear.
And the U.S. has made it very clear that it does intend to extradite Assange to face trial in the U.S.: http://www.salon.com/2012/07/02/dianne_feinstein_targets_press_freedom/
Did you read the links?
The women did not accuse him of this. So any belief that they were put up to this is incorrect. They explained what happened and the police realised the implications and brought about this whole affair. The women contacted the police for ONE REASON - To find out if they could force him to have an Aids test.
It is a public offence to rape and the police can file charges against the will of the woman/women raped.
Before you go on with all your conspiracy theories read the facts of the case.
http://www.btlonline.org/2012/seg/120706cf-btl-rowley.html
Say, isn't Sweden the same country where that company, SKF, sold the Nazis their ball bearings to they could then invade, and occupy, Sweden in WWII?
What a country??????
Julian Assange has repeatedly said he would willingly go to Sweden if Sweden agreed not to send him to the U.S., where he faces the same pre-trial torture that Bradley Manning and Jose Padilla suffered and a possible death sentence or life in prison for exposing U.S. war crimes. Again, those are the facts.
You are the one who chooses to deny the basic facts of the case.