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Re: Assange makes 1st public appearance in 2 months Current Usage;
Julian Assange;
Common Douchebag.
Currently : Hiding out in a 3rd world embassy to avoid his "rapey" charges.
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Wikileaks' Assange marks Day 100 inside Ecuadorian embassy Ecuador says it will host Assange in its London embassy indefinitely, but the decision to continue supporting the Wikileaks founder could have negative repercussions for the Andean nation.
Mr. Hague and Mr. Patino met today in New York to discuss the dispute, despite the British official’s skepticism regarding a quick solution.
“We agreed that we would continue to talk, and we will continue to talk about this issue with the government of Ecuador. But I see no sign of any breakthrough,” Hague told reporters at the UN. » www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas···-embassyThe British government stressed to Ecuador today that it was under an obligation to extradite the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden, where he faces questioning over sex crimes allegations.
The foreign secretary, William Hague, held talks with Ecuador's foreign minister, Ricardo Patino, in New York, where ministers have gathered this week for a United Nations meeting.
Assange has been in Ecuador's London embassy since June as part of his bid to avoid extradition to Sweden. He fears being sent to the United States if he travels to Sweden, to face interrogation over the whistle-blowing website.
He has been granted political asylum by Ecuador but faces arrest if he leaves the embassy after breaking his UK bail conditions.
The Foreign Office said: "The foreign secretary said he wanted to see close and productive bilateral relations between the UK and Ecuador, including in the areas of trade and investment, higher education, and counter-narcotics co-operation.
"On the case of Mr Julian Assange, the foreign secretary told Minister Patino that the UK was under an obligation to extradite Mr Assange to Sweden.
"The concept of 'diplomatic asylum', while well-established in Latin America, did not feature in UK law.
"The foreign secretary described the extensive human rights safeguards in UK extradition law. He requested the government of Ecuador to study these provisions closely in considering the way ahead.
"Both ministers agreed that they were committed to the search for a diplomatic solution to Mr Assange's case. They were willing to meet again at this level in due course to continue these exchanges." » www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/se···on-legal--
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said by FF4m3 :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. The above screenshot from British Extradition Law and Procedure: Including Extradition ..., Volume 2 beginning page 312. nothing new here. I think the way it works is that Sweden should ask for extradition from equador directly. UK has no beef with Assuange.
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I think the way it works is that Sweden should ask for extradition from Ecuador directly
Sounds logical. Certainly better than the great lion forcing the upper hand by force as once was discussed and causing a massive international event that may spiral out of control.
I wonder how England would respond if Ecuador was to try and drive to the airport and escort him to Sweden under an extradition order of their own? Now that day I'd love to be filming the events. 
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I think the way it works is that Sweden should ask for extradition from Ecuador directly
Sounds logical. Certainly better than the great lion forcing the upper hand by force as once was discussed and causing a massive international event that may spiral out of control. I wonder how England would respond if Ecuador was to try and drive to the airport and escort him to Sweden under an extradition order of their own? Now that day I'd love to be filming the events. technically he did jump bail.
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I wonder how England would respond if Ecuador was to try and drive to the airport and escort him to Sweden under an extradition order of their own? Now that day I'd love to be filming the events.
I suspect they'd stop the vehicle, and arrest Assange. The Ecuadorian consulate is Ecuadorian soil. Roads in the UK aren't. Those with him will likely not be charged with transporting a fugitive, because they'd have diplomatic immunity.
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said by norwegian:...I wonder how England would respond if Ecuador was to try and drive to the airport and escort him to Sweden under an extradition order of their own? ... I think that if Ecuador believed they had the legitimate right to do that, they'd already have tried it and defied UK to react against them. Part of the problem is that while there's a lot of chatter occurring between diplomats and via press releases, it's not matched by that much comprehensive, crystal-clear law and treaties... and Ecuador knows it. Assange hiding in their embassy is pretty much diplomatically unassailable... their moving Assange anywhere else is not.
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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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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.
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Seems there is still quite a lot going on in all this.
»www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oc···eit-bail
Julian Assange's supporters have been ordered to forfeit £93,500 in bail money after the WikiLeaks founder sought political asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
A court ruled on Monday that the payments must be made within a month by nine friends and backers who in 2010 pledged £140,000 to guarantee Assange would abide by bail conditions during a failed legal challenge to extradition proceedings brought by authorities in Sweden, where he faces allegations of rape and sexual assault.
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He isn't shy about what he believes in and isn't sitting around on his laurels by the sounds of these.
»www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oc···net-book
Julian Assange to publish book about freedom and the future of the internet
WikiLeaks founder to be co-author of book entitled Cypherpunks, despite being confined to Ecuadorean embassy in London
Prominent defamation lawyer Stuart Littlemore, QC, has labelled attempts by WikiLeaks and Julian Assange to find ways of suing Prime Minister Julia Gillard for defamation as nothing more than a stunt.
Mr Littlemore and other legal experts say that defamation claims generally must be made within 12 months of the comments.
Mr Assange has hired lawyers to find a way of suing Prime Minister Julia Gillard for defamation over the claim that WikiLeaks acted illegally in releasing a quarter of a million US diplomatic cables.
In an interview from Ecuador's embassy in London, Assange said Ms Gillard's comment, made in late 2010, influenced MasterCard Australia to join an online financial blockade of the organisation. ''MasterCard Australia, in justifying why it has made a blockade preventing any Australian MasterCard holder from donating to WikiLeaks, used that statement by Julia Gillard as justification,'' he said.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard made an unwise decision to presume WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's guilt, which has prompted him to pursue a possible defamation case, Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop says.
Ms Bishop says Mr Assange, who has reportedly hired Sydney lawyers to pursue a defamation case against Ms Gillard, is entitled to seek legal remedies if he believes he's been defamed.
Mr Assange has told left-leaning activist group GetUp! that Ms Gillard defamed WikiLeaks when she allegedly told a radio station in 2010 he had broken the law by releasing hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables, according to a statement released by the group on Monday.
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said by norwegian: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.
It seems there is a document.
»beforeitsnews.com/politics/2012/···018.html
An investigative arm of the Pentagon has termed Wikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, currently holed up and claiming asylum in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for fear he will be deported to Sweden and thence to the US, and his organization, both “enemies” of the United States.
The Age newspaper in Melbourne Australia is reporting that documents obtained through the US Freedom of Information Act from the Pentagon (PDF) disclose that an investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, a counter-intelligence unit, of a military cyber systems analyst based in Britain who had reportedly expressed support for Wikileaks and had attended a demonstration in support of Assange, refers to the analyst as having been “communicating with the enemy, D-104.” The D-104 classification refers to an article of the US Uniform Military Code of Military Justice which prohibits military personnel from “communicating, corresponding or holding intercourse with the enemy.”
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.... refers to the analyst as having been “communicating with the enemy, D-104.” The D-104 classification refers to an article of the US Uniform Military Code of Military Justice which prohibits military personnel from “communicating, corresponding or holding intercourse with the enemy."
Certainly of interest to any US service personnel who might have communicated classified information with Assange or Wikileaks. But it has nothing to do with the US hypothetically charging Assange with something. Which is the (supposed) reason why Assange is currently ducking a Swedish sex assault investigation in a 3rd world embassy.
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That is the billion dollar question, given that the US hasn't laid charges etc, I'd say no, but is the investigation over, maybe not.
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May I quote from the article posted on Wikileaks concerning 'labels Assange and Wikileaks as '"enemies" of the US', where does it say that? All I see is:
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(D) Matters Alleged: Communicating with the enemy, 104-D-
Once again there is no drama unless you extend beyond what is actually said, 'Matters Alleged', for a journalist Mr. Assange has an extremely poor grasp of the english language, but Julian you can use the power of the internet to get Merriam-Websters where you can lookup the meaning of the word
Alleged
1: asserted to be true or to exist
2: questionably true or of a specified kind : supposed, so-called
3: accused but not proven or convicted
So how does this genius get from 'alleged' to 'enemy of the state', second who says that they are not just referring to WikiLeaks as nothing more then the transfer mechanism? For example if I'm handing over classified US documents to (insert US enemy of the week here) via the phone, does AT&T get labeled an enemy of the state?
Like I said before, what happens if Julian goes the Sweden and the US does nothing, no charges, no extradition, no midnight commando raid, nothing? Assange eats a ton of crow, wears two tons of sh*t and its the express train to yesterday's forgotten news for him, hence why he doesn't want to go to Sweden as the US isn't going to do a dam thing and he knows it. Better hurry up and get that book out before everyone catches onto your folly Julian.
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The way I look at it, there seems no real docs to back the play "enemy of the state" by the news that I searched.
It all lead back to the 1 article by the SMH, but then who knows.....the paperwork maybe kept under lock and key for now.
The US if they are to play at taking down the site and it's creator, they won't be leaving the paperwork in the open either and allowing it to create a fiasco such as the issue for Britain at present.
I don't doubt they are after him, he has been a thorn in the side since before we all met here.
I worry enough about me commenting here and what it does or would do for my family if someone were to come after me for my views.....I think anyone would be concerned.
What are the long term goals for the man; that is something I've been pondering. I hope he does have good solid facts; as it is hurting his family; and that must cross his thoughts a lot.
History depicts there is a lot of mystery of and men/women, the world over:
Mysterious deaths
Assassinated people of the world
We tread on thin ice at times, and the powers that be; well let's just say can take out anyone at any time.
Arlo Guthrie released a song called Alice's Restaurant and it's under tones are very suggestive of what a group of people who believe in a similar ideology can become to the powers that be, even though it is about 1 man.
Good luck mister in your chosen path is all I can say.
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| said by norwegian:I worry enough about me commenting here and what it does or would do for my family if someone were to come after me for my views.....I think anyone would be concerned.
I think the chances of a person generally supportive of Assange being targeted by some sort of nefarious intelligence arm of a hypothetical nation to be about zero. And they have a few thousand to get through before you even assuming the wild notion that they'd be interested in any way to be true. I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep over this "worry". Assange himself operated basically in the open for years. And he seems to be only in legal trouble at all over the rape allegations, not Wikileaks.
By a similar token, I suppose I could worry about being "hacked" by Anonymous or what-not for generally believing that Assange should "man-up" and go face his accusers, in Sweden, and saying so.
Am I worrying? Nope.
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kudos:1 | said by yeeeah :said by Ian:And he seems to be only in legal trouble at all over the rape allegations, not Wikileaks.
100% accurate
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said by Ian:said by norwegian:I worry enough about me commenting here and what it does or would do for my family if someone were to come after me for my views.....I think anyone would be concerned.
I think the chances of a person generally supportive of Assange being targeted by some sort of nefarious intelligence arm of a hypothetical nation to be about zero. And they have a few thousand to get through before you even assuming the wild notion that they'd be interested in any way to be true. I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep over this "worry". Assange himself operated basically in the open for years. And he seems to be only in legal trouble at all over the rape allegations, not Wikileaks. By a similar token, I suppose I could worry about being "hacked" by Anonymous or what-not for generally believing that Assange should "man-up" and go face his accusers, in Sweden, and saying so. Am I worrying? Nope. Who are we to fear the most when it comes to free speech, the evil government or the so called defenders of free speech? If the question even has to be asked, then perhaps the defenders have already failed.
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