Assange Watch

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 05 Sep 2012, 12:33

Maybe he reckons the world needs another t-shirt image?

ziggy12345 · Post by **ziggy12345** » 07 Sep 2012, 00:45

The Swedish just dropped the charges.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316

Now he is free to leave the embassy to be picked up by the UK police and extradited to the USA for spying charges

RogueMale · Post by **RogueMale** » 07 Sep 2012, 00:54

ziggy12345 wrote:The Swedish just dropped the charges.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316

Now he is free to leave the embassy to be picked up by the UK police and extradited to the USA for spying charges

Check the date on that report. It's old news.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 07 Sep 2012, 12:16

It was from before the US government got involved. The big Wikileaks leak with the Collateral Murder video changed all.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 07 Sep 2012, 12:48

Megashite from Hague.

Any suggestion that extradition to Sweden posed a risk to Assange’s human rights was “completely unfounded” and had been “comprehensively rejected” by UK courts, he pointed out.

Quite apart from international obligations, the UK had “complete confidence in the independence and fairness of the Swedish judicial system”, he said.

Ecuador has also been assured that fears Assange could be extradited on to the US from Sweden and face the death penalty were “without foundation”, Mr Hague noted.

Quite a skill, continually stating words in opposition to meaning.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 10 Sep 2012, 12:26

Shame on the Australian government and its supporters

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 05 Oct 2012, 10:50

Assange officially 'enemy' of the US

the US government, with the general consent of the courts, has been treating “enemies” of the state in some very frightening extra-judicial ways.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 08 Oct 2012, 16:22

A short interview with/about Assange, September 2012.

extractorfan · Post by **extractorfan** » 08 Oct 2012, 16:28

emordnilap wrote:Megashite from Hague.

Ecuador has also been assured that fears Assange could be extradited on to the US from Sweden and face the death penalty were “without foundation”, Mr Hague noted.
Quite a skill, continually stating words in opposition to meaning.

Clever, so they've not been assured he wouldn't face extradition, only extradition and death penalty, which is a pretty safe bet.

Next they will say Assange's supporters have been brainwashed.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 19 Oct 2012, 16:44

Australia in bed with USA over Assange for some years.

“I've received no hint that they've got a plan to extradite him to the US … I would expect that the US would not want to touch this,” said Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr in June.

However, in August Australian officials confirmed that the country's diplomatic mission in Washington has been prepping for Assange's possible extradition to the US calling it "contingency planning."

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 25 Oct 2012, 17:35

It's always worth listening to Amy Goodman but don't let her depress you too much!

Edit: here's another article about Obama's 'disposition matrix'.

This was all motivated by Obama's refusal to arrest or detain terrorist suspects, and his resulting commitment simply to killing them at will (his will). Miller quotes "a former US counterterrorism official involved in developing the matrix" as explaining the impetus behind the program this way: "We had a disposition problem."

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 25 Oct 2012, 20:30

It's all gone a bit quiet on the Assange front...

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 25 Oct 2012, 20:55

UndercoverElephant wrote:It's all gone a bit quiet on the Assange front...

The authorities have tried the "shock and awe" strategy and it didn't work. Now they are going in for the long haul. One way or another, the Yanks are intent on getting him. Things may change in their overall policy objectives of course, but I don't see that happening any time soon. Assange could be in there for years.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 26 Oct 2012, 10:38

They're using torture, what a surprise. He is not particularly well, which is unsurprising; he will only get iller.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 26 Oct 2012, 16:56

If it's quiet on the Assange front, then here's a bit of light reading for da weekend:

Here, here, here, here, here and here.