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Re: Assange makes 1st public appearance in 2 months said by EGeezer:said by lordpuffer:said by Frodo:It's exactly this matter. If I leaked classified Iranian material, should I be extradited to Iran? ...
... if Assange is indicted and extradited to the U.S., he's just going to serve time if found guilty. No political reason not to extradite or to grant asylum. ... So, if the prisons and treatment in Iran (or other nation) were U.S. style, you'd support extradition in the cited situation? No, not to Iran. Why? Because IMO, Iran does not have a legitimate government.
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Assange will speak to UN from Ecuadorian Embassy in London
»www.cnn.com/2012/09/26/world/ass···dex.html
US calls Assange 'enemy of state'
»www.smh.com.au/national/us-calls···m7s.html
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| You're kidding me. There goes that "loud mouth" attitude again. If a country is going to make "war" then they have to understand everyone is not going to like it. Look at the 60's rallies.
Now he can be labeled a "terrorist"; imagine some of those 60's icons under that law?
Assange remains holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London. He was granted diplomatic asylum on the grounds that if extradited to Sweden to be questioned about sexual assault allegations, he would be at risk of further extradition to the US to face espionage or conspiracy charges arising from the leaking of hundreds of thousands of secret US military and diplomatic reports.
US Vice-President Joe Biden labelled Assange a "high-tech terrorist" in December 2010 and US congressional leaders have called for him to be charged with espionage.
Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee - both once involved in presidential campaigns - have both urged that Assange be "hunted down".
Assange's US attorney, Michael Ratner, said the designation of WikiLeaks as an "enemy" had serious implications for the WikiLeaks publisher if he were to be extradited to the US, including possible military detention.
Thumbs up for making a stand, this is neither the middle ages nor colonial Australia.
"It appears that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are the 'enemy'. An enemy is dealt with under the laws of war, which could include killing, capturing, detaining without trial, etc."
The Australian government has repeatedly denied knowledge of any US intention to charge Assange or seek his extradition.
However, Australian diplomatic cables released to Fairfax Media under freedom-of-information laws over the past 18 months have confirmed the continuation of an "unprecedented" US Justice Department espionage investigation targeting Assange and WikiLeaks.
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kudos:7 | We don't know if those two articles are based on facts..I thought some of the stuff was hokie since no backup material presented..nevertheless they are out there so let's see who is hanging out the dirty laundry today. |
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THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States — the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency.
Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk of being charged with "communicating with the enemy", a military crime that carries a maximum sentence of death.
Assange's US attorney, Michael Ratner, said the designation of WikiLeaks as an "enemy" had serious implications for the WikiLeaks publisher if he were to be extradited to the US, including possible military detention.
"It appears that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are the 'enemy'. An enemy is dealt with under the laws of war, which could include killing, capturing, detaining without trial, etc." An enemy of the state is a person accused of certain crimes against the state, such as treason. Describing individuals in this way is sometimes a manifestation of political repression. For example, an authoritarian regime may purport to maintain national security by describing social or political dissidents as "enemies of the state". In other cases, the individual in question may have legitimately endangered the country and/or its population. For example, a double agent selling military or intelligence secrets could undermine a nation's security, and could therefore be considered an enemy not of just a person or entity within a state, but the state itself and all entities therein. |
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It will be interesting.
What I can't understand is Fairfax saying they have documents via the 'freedom of speech' act and have for 18 months but to date I'm sure I've found none posted - what gives?
It is getting to a stage where we need to clarify facts and fiction and comments like that just don't cut it without proof.
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Ref: US calls Assange 'enemy of state'. The article is an exercise in PR. The US has hardly called Assange an "enemy of the state", at least yet. The article purports that an Air Force counter-intelligence investigation team looking at someone entirely different from Bradley Manning invoked that wording in their documents. Yet it remains unclear whether that term "enemy" was even being directly applied to WikiLeaks/Assange as "the enemy" or to the (then very real) possibility they were exploring along the avenue that a leak to WikiLeaks might constitute a direct informing of Al Qaeda et al about US military information, who indeed would have been the "enemy". The entire "meat" of the article revolves around the Assange lawyer's assertions, but the actual documents are not yet made fully public so that the rest of us can form our own opinions of whether or not those assertions are accurate or reasonable. In the end, the case was closed without any charges.
It should also be kept in mind that these were US military documents, presumably authored by US military investigators, dealing with a US military person who was (presumably) an American citizen, about matters that involved military-related conduct during war conditions. That's a far cry from applying directly to Assange's status as an Australian citizen, a civilian not involved in military affairs, who claims journalistic status, and who is accused of receiving and publishing leaked documents.
Likewise, stated opinions by publicity-conscious politicos like Biden, Palin, or Huckabee are essentially irrelevant. What is relevant is whether there remains a genuine, active investigation and effort by DOJ and/or grand juries to pursue charges against Assange, or whether there would be any reasonable grounds to believe the US military would somehow have the necessary authorization, will, and power to grab or kidnap Assange should he be extradited to Sweden. To date, just about everything concerning actual US intentions that is out there in the public domain consists of assumptions, innuendo, claims, and opinions.
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Exactly..so easy these days to just put out bullshit to strengthen your position.. to much stuff on the internet these days is just crap talk.
Sound to me someone just took a look at what areas a person or group "might" be violating then plunked in their poster boy. |
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It's all good stuff..I like to see our poster boy getting paranoid..maybe he has nightmares..he certainly is not in control..
Australia is ignoring him so he can go piss up a rope.
»www.smh.com.au/opinion/political···nuj.html
He has no access to natural light 
DVDs, Pizza, and Occasional Dancing:
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treadmill and a sun lamp:
»www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/···nge.html
I think he quite likes slumming and scrounging off other people.
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kudos:7 | reply to The Snowman
Here is his spiel to the UN video.
»rt.com/news/assange-addresses-un···hts-069/ |
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Link Logger to address the UN from his bathroom in Calgary, of course I'll neglect to mention there are no charges against me and my bathroom asylum is because I jumped bail and don't want to go to Sweden to answer question concerning an investigation.
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We will have to use the famous binscope
»Re: UK's top investigator describes a life fighting cybercrime
I tried to leak it earlier in the day but no takers 
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Where do they find these journalist who embellish stories like this?
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THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States - the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency.
Show me a list on a .gov site that lists enemies of the state with Assange on it, go ahead I dare you to.
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Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk of being charged with "communicating with the enemy", a military crime that carries a maximum sentence of death.
Duh, your publishing classified documents on a public site, where anyone could read them, by definition, how does Wikileaks figure they get an exception?
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The analyst's access to classified information was suspended. However, the investigators closed the case without laying charges. The analyst denied leaking information.
Clearance is a privilege, not a right and can be revoked at any time for any reason. Let see the documents were:
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The documents, some originally classified "Secret/NoForn" - not releasable to non-US nationals
and this guy was
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a cyber systems analyst based in Britain
sounds like someone figured out he had access to documents he wasn't cleared for and yanked his privileges. NOTE no charges were laid so the problem here would be, that they think he has ties to anti-US or anti-military groups, well duh again, must be a pretty crappy security analyst if he can't figure that one out. I read a 'Top Secret/NoForn' document that said he was having a physical relationship with an Iranian underage goat that he was slipping secrets too, go ahead prove me wrong.
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US Vice-President Joe Biden labeled Mr Assange a "high-tech terrorist" in December 2010 and US congressional leaders have called for him to be charged with espionage.
And how are those charges coming along as its been almost 2 years since and, oh nothing. Like I said before the tin foil has been on for so long its gotten rather stinky under there, but if you wait long enough maybe something will happen, but let us know when that will be as I'm waiting for a Golden Frog to jump into my yard and sh*t diamonds all over the place. Right now its a race to see which will happen first.
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Mr Ratner said that under US law it would most likely have been considered criminal for the US Air Force analyst to communicate classified material to journalists and publishers, but those journalists and publishers would not have been considered the enemy or prosecuted.
If those journalist aided or were otherwise involved in the crime of acquiring those documents, hell yes they would be prosecuted.
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"However, in the FOI documents there is no allegation of any actual communication for publication that would aid an enemy of the United States such as al-Qaeda, nor are there allegations that WikiLeaks published such information," he said.
"Almost the entire set of documents is concerned with the analyst's communications with people close to and supporters of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, with the worry that she would disclose classified documents to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
The document also didn't state that this journalist only writes part truths either, its a document with a topic, but I guess this journalist didn't include the stock price dip of Apple today, so I guess we are free to assume whatever we wish as being true based on his omission of this information in this article.
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The Australian government has repeatedly denied knowledge of any US intention to charge Mr Assange or seek his extradition.
Maybe because there isn't any US intention to charge him or seek his extradition, that can't be.
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The Australian diplomatic reports canvassed the possibility that the US may eventually seek Mr Assange's extradition on conspiracy or information-theft-related offenses to avoid extradition problems arising from the nature of espionage as a political offense and the free-speech protections in the US constitution.
Really, I'm sure if they find a reason to, they will charge him and request extradition, but any idea when that might be happening as I think I hear a frog on my lawn, maybe its time to go and rake up some diamonds.
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said by EGeezer:said by lordpuffer:said by Frodo:It's exactly this matter. If I leaked classified Iranian material, should I be extradited to Iran? ...
... if Assange is indicted and extradited to the U.S., he's just going to serve time if found guilty. No political reason not to extradite or to grant asylum. ... So, if the prisons and treatment in Iran (or other nation) were U.S. style, you'd support extradition in the cited situation? you need an extradition treaty first. If we had a treaty first of all I hope it would take prison conditions into account and second of all I would say it would have to be enforced.
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From The Guardian - 27 September 2012:
Amnesty International said the Swedish authorities should issue assurances to the UK and to Assange that if he left Ecuador's embassy and agreed to go to Sweden to face sexual assault claims, he would not be extradited to the US in connection with WikiLeaks.
Nicola Duckworth, senior director for research at Amnesty International, said: "If the Swedish authorities are able to confirm publicly that Assange will not eventually find himself on a plane to the USA if he submits himself to the authority of the Swedish courts, then this will hopefully achieve two things.
"First, it will break the current impasse and, second, it will mean the women who have levelled accusations of sexual assault are not denied justice.
"It is vital that states show they are serious about dealing with allegations of sexual violence and that they respect both the rights of the women who made the complaints and the person accused." |
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And the story remains at an impasse.
Assange wants a blank check that gives him sanctuary, no matter what (if any) charges for what (if any) reasons might ever be filed by the US leading to an extradition request for him from Sweden.
Sweden and the UK look at such a blank check as setting a nasty precedent and as an infringement on their sovereign right to determine their own compliance with existing treaties, as well as their view of the proper functioning of their own legal systems.
The US is playing all its cards (if any) close to its chest, since it gains nothing by saying anything at this point.
Ecuador looks at it as an opportunity to simultaneously elevate their "human rights" standing in the world (irrespective of their HR track record at home), while simultaneously attempting to bring embarassment to the US, UK, and Sweden who (I rather suspect) they view with strong measures of 3rd-world envy and dislike.
Meanwhile, Assange moulders away in the Ecuadorian embassy, representing a growing inconvenience and burden to their diplomatic staff - and in a form of jail only modestly better than he would face for breaking parole in the UK, fleeing court in Sweden, or facing whatever (if anything) in the US.
I wonder who will break first? My money would be on Ecuador or Assange...
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The Cypherpunk Revolutionary: Julian Assange
»www.themonthly.com.au/julian-ass···nne-3081
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UK seeking loophole in extradition agreement with Ecuador - 28 September, 2012:
Patino held a meeting with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Summarizing the results of the talks, Patino said that he received written confirmation from London that it recognizes the validity of its 1880 extradition treaty with Ecuador. According to Patino, this agreement states that in cases like Assange’s, a person cannot be extradited to a third country.
During the talks Patino reminded his counterpart that the WikiLeaks boss is under Ecuador's jurisdiction, and asserted his country's determination to protect him.
Nevertheless, Britain has pledged to seek a diplomatic solution in order to find a way to extradite Assange. |
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Assange has dug himself into a hole from which he can't get out of, so now all that is left is for him to do is fade into obscurity. The US won't press charges and if he goes to Sweden they won't extradite him and Assange instantly becomes a delusional fraud without any creditability, and he knows it and the US knows it, so all he can do is try to keep up the illusion that the evil US is after him and keep fighting the nonexistent extradition. At some point the Ecuadorians are going to give him the boot as he fades into irrelevance and becomes a liability rather then a political trophy of defiance against the US which scores them points in Central America. What will then happen will be rather interesting as which country will let him in, Sweden will give him the boot as soon as the investigation and whatever follows that, if anything is over, Britain isn't going to let him back in, so where does he go, Australia perhaps or some other wing nut country who collect even old worn out political trophies? The US would piss themselves silly if he showed up on their doorstep and they are under no obligation to admit him into the US for any reason.
Its one thing to claim your a martyr of freedom, but at some point you have to face your enemy and fall on their sword to seal the title of martyr, otherwise you become the boy who cried wolf. Assange has become the boy, as its been 2 years, no US charges, no US extradition, nothing, there is no wolf, there is no martyr.
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