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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange arrested; U.S. seeks extradition from U.K.

Mycroft said:
shrug...

I don't know who the current President of Ecuador really is, either.
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I guess that at least we can consider your admission to a lack of knowledge on a issue as being a positive first step towards your recovery. Baby steps!
 
Atomic Kid said:
I guess that at least we can consider your admission to a lack of knowledge on a issue as being a positive first step towards your recovery. Baby steps!
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???

What on earth are you babbling about?

The fact is, I'm not particularly interested in the topic. Does that bother you?
 
Mycroft said:
???

What on earth are you babbling about?

The fact is, I'm not particularly interested in the topic. Does that bother you?
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If you're confused you could always look it up. And if as you say you have no interest in it. Then why are you still here?
 
Atomic Kid said:
If you're confused you could always look it up. And if as you say you have no interest in it. Then why are you still here?
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You're right. When you start saying stupid stuff to me, I should just dismiss you.

You are dismissed.
 
Mycroft said:
You're right. When you start saying stupid stuff to me, I should just dismiss you.

You are dismissed.
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It's only stupid to you because you don't what it is you or anyone else is talking about. Stupid is as stupid does. Dismissed!!!
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Two possibilities leap to mind:


  1. Mr. Assange was acting like a dolt and embarrassing the Ecuadorian government; and
  2. a very quietly and discretely conveyed threat from the government of the United States of America;


or possibly both.
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Ecuador had a $4.2 billion extended loan agreement approved last week.
 
Manc Skipper said:
The UK doesn't extradite to countries with a death penalty.
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The death penalty isn't applicable for the crimes Assange is being charged with. He is at no risk of being exposed to the death penalty. :roll:
 
Atomic Kid said:
The death penalty isn't applicable for the crimes Assange is being charged with. He is at no risk of being exposed to the death penalty. :roll:
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Did I say he was? :roll:

Come to think of it anything is possible in Trumpmerikkka
 
nota bene said:
Photos.
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I find that less than compelling as evidence - video?

But at any rate, it's minor nitpicking to undermine a hero.

Gandhi, on the other hand, was a child molester.

That's an actual fact, as is Hillary reveling in gang rape.
 
nota bene said:
Why must this be an either/or?
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Well, it shouldn't be.

But Assange is the target of one of the most vicious attack campaigns I've ever seen.

You'd think he was Hitler.

Or Gandhi...
 
Superfly said:
Um - no.

It's not common practice for those who are incarcerated to smear **** on the wall.
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If this even happened - which is highly doubtful - it actually isn't unusual for those tortured and isolated to act out.
 
nota bene said:
So no answer to my question; it's one or the other, eh?

I don't have any feelings toward Assange at all, and I don't care what happens to him either.
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I wish you did care.

The attacks on Assange are attacks on speech, the free press, government transparency, our Constitution, the UN Declaration, and basic decency.

I'm sure he has his faults, but his fate is a matter of great importance to everyone in the world.
 
Atomic Kid said:
The biggest problem with Assange the current President of Ecuador cited was that Assange was using their facilities as a base to continue with his hacking/spying and or meddling in the affairs of other sovereign states. Not to mention that the current Ecuadorian President is apparently seeking to forge closer ties with the US. Economically speaking anyway.
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I'm sure the Ecu-prez had many incentives, including Assange's refusal to back down from his investigative journalism.

Thank you for sharing your take on this. :)
 
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Superfly said:
Um - no.

It's not common practice for those who are incarcerated to smear **** on the wall.
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You don't know that was done. You've been told that by the same gang of liars that told you about WMD 18 years ago.

You believe known liars, while I am most skeptical of their statements.
 
3leftsdoo said:
Video or it didn't happen.
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AFAIK his lawyers are said to have commented on the incident so I am not strongly disputing it happened , or something happened , I am just sceptical of how this , like everything else regarding Assange is being depicted. The picture I have seen was a toilet in the embassy apparently free from anything by the looks of it. Nothing on the walls either. No dead bodies. No dead kittens. etc etc


My view is that the really big issues surrounding this new Assange situation , legality , IMF loans , vindictive revocations etc etc are being dodged and supplanted with trivial smears against the man himself with little or no evidence to support it thus far.

The Daily Mail ( tory rag in the uk ) released footage of him on a skateboard yesterday. It showed him standing around playing around with one and them he scooted all of about 7 foot across the floor of what looked like the room he is living in. A far cry from him skateboarding through the corridors of the embassy itself which, IIRC , was what had been stated earlier

What do you know about it 3leftsdoo ?
 
Well it looks like everybody is getting their justifications in order if the below is actually the case

The Ecuadoreans have released to the British allegedly after being given a written assurance he won't be extradited to the US. Their get out of jail card

The British if this is true can honour it and extradite him to Sweden to face questionings over the alleged rape case. That's their get out of jail card

The Swedes have promised nothing so are free to then extradite him to the USA

And the USA can carry on punishing Chelsea Manning in order to try to make a " Assange hacked a US military server password " stick in the meantime until they actually get their man , which I am sure will be the case , eventually
 
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