Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks has lost his appeal against extradition from the UK to Sweden. He has one more appeal available, but apparently his funds have run out and he can't even pay his court costs. So if he can't appeal he may be extradited within a month. He's been accused of rape by two Swedish women. He says they consented to sex. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/02/julian-assange-loses-appeal-extradition?newsfeed=true
What is most worrying is that the US may apply for extradition once he is in Sweden. What are his chances if he is held on charges of unlawfully obtaining and publishing classified government documents? I dread to think.
Yes, that is the plan. To get him to Sweden then extradite him to the USA. It's all a US plot, using sexual innuendo to bring someone down. Remember Mr. Strauss-Kahn? Same M.O., reeks of the CIA.
When Assange was in the UK at first when all of this was first happening, i knew that eventually that this would happen, extradition. I cannot be sure, but i believe the USA will put a lot of pressure on Sweden to get him extradited there. Odd to hear his funds have run out?I thought wikileaks had a decent amount of support from various people?
Yeah, so did I! There is an ongoing drive to secure funds for the next round of appeals if he chooses to go down that road. I'm not sure it's a good idea, the British judiciary have already made up their mind.
don't you have to be in the place you committed the crime in order to be extradited? i'm unsure where he leaked these documents.
no..you get extradited to the country that is charging you and this is usually where the crimes were committed[alleged].....i thought you were a college boy? lol
If I had to speculate it has less to do with extradition and more to do with debasing his character. They are going to get him to sweeden and slander him with a good sex scandal. The entire thing has been pretty obvious. -They froze his access to money and made him spend a fortune on legal fees. -The house arrest has also kept him contained and controled. So he is not able to stay in the public's eye. - Facebook has spread false information and slandered his colleges while avoiding direct attacks on Assange. Assange will go back to Sweeden and made to look like a rapist monster to the public USA will not ask for extradition so he will be made to look paranoid freak to the public Then in a several years he will either have an convienant accident or commit suicide.
They do, but the banksters have denied him any means to receive money. All Wikileaks bank accounts were shutdown, I believe. This is a CIA op, from start to finish, no doubt. Discredit those who oppose the 1%. The banksters are so worried that he is going to release damaging data on them. I suspect he has been threatened with far worse things if he does release the data. They have Assange in custody already, and I'm sure they're monitoring all his electronic and physical contacts. So if he were to ask a colleague to release the data, they'd know who he contacted and where the person is and where the data is hiding. And Assange may be holding that last card as a defense against the charges against him. If they fuck him over, maybe then he'll do the big bank data dump. The sex thing is SO OVERBLOWN, cause a woman in Sweden can claim rape even if she consented and willingly slept with the guy afterwards! So this is just a con job to bring down Assange and Wikileaks. And as you can see the US gets what it wants everywhere in the world. This is so WRONG!
I found Germans get mad when anyone doesn't speak German. Same with the French. Oh, yeah, and Americans too, esp. when they're overseas, or in their own towns and someone doesn't speak their native tongue... And I can explain why this is... In Germany all TV programs are in German. In France all TV programs are in French. In the US all TV programs are in English. That is the reason they expect EVERYTHING to be in their language. You might think that is normal... However, the Germans and French require their broadcasts, even of Hollywood movies to be DUBBED in their own languages, not subtitled. And the Germans do this so well, they think all these programs and movies are recorded in German. Cue Midgardsun's response...
Not everything, Skip. It is very cool for many of the young Germans to use english words instead of german words, they speak a mixture of German and English and when you talk to them in pure German they think youre old/retarded. Because of more than 60 years of cultural reeducation and occupation by the USA the young people here dont take words from neighbour countries languages. Over 90% of the "culture" they consume is US culture. So the dumbing down is about the same as in the USA by their mass media with the same results.
"what language you speak is OBVIOUSLY TIED TO YOUR RACE" OK, and what language does the "black" race all speak. You have shown your ignorance here. I'd give it a rest if I were you. You're only digging yourself a bigger hole. Not to mention that YOU are the one who derailed this thread with personal insults.
Unfortunately the "dumbing down" of the world by US media is prevelant almost everywhere. Even if they don't watch American shows in English, they absorb the cultural values, which as we all know revolve around GREED and getting as many material things as one can. Once the US cultural "values" have been absorbed by a culture, they filter down into their own media which becomes full of westernized values. Yes, many Germans speak English quite well (unlike the French). However, I was amazed that they didn't use subtitles and instead dub everything into German. I was only referring to broadcast TV, not other mediums where Germans can see English programming (satellite, Internet, DVD, etc).
I don't know Assange's heart and I don't know the degree to which Sweden may or may not be a lapdog of the US. On one hand, there are people with compartmentalized minds, part ethical and part unethical. The BTK killer was both a genial neighbor and community leader and a predatory rapist. Sweden has been described as a liberal social democracy that takes in refugees from political repression and yet they still have an industrial elite and a small(?) right-wing element that only cares about making money. So is it possible that Assange had a dark moment and forced himself on women who consented to a date, but not sex on his terms? I am inclined to believe it was consensual, but I really don't know. I have enough doubt that I believe that he should at least be required to answer their accusation in Swedish court. Does Sweden do whatever the US or EU tells it to do? I am badly informed about Swedish culture and current political status. I invite others with more knowledge of Sweden to help us out. I think the posts about Quebec should be moved to another thread. Important topic, but IMHO irrelevant to a discussion about Assange and Swedish justice.
Guess you don't understand what QUOTATION MARKS mean. I was quoting someone else, idiot. And yes, I should ban you for those remarks, even though they were made over something SOMEONE ELSE SAID instead of me... You are indeed a fool and have proved it here. You've derailed multiple threads with off-topic BS about Quebec which nobody here cares about, except you. You'd rather DIVIDE people than unite them. You are tool of the oppressors and not hip at all.