Re:Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped
by spiralpolitik on Thursday August 13, 2015 @09:57AM
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In the UK extraditions, especially ones to the US, are usually won or lost in the court of public opinion. I suspect that Assange feels he would have a better chance of resisting extradition in the UK than in Sweden.
See the case of Gary McKinnon as an example (although McKinnon had much stronger grounds to appeal on than I expect Assange would)
Re:Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped
by PJDK on Thursday August 13, 2015 @09:02AM
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Particularly since he could still appeal back to the UK if Sweden tried to extradite him.
Also weird this wasn't an argument he brought up while fighting the initial extradition to Sweden.
Re:Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped
by marrs on Thursday August 13, 2015 @11:48AM
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In fairness, most people only become afraid of something when they're facing it.
As for the conspiracy theory, maybe it was the product of paranoid thinking. A more obvious conspiracy theory to me is that the US saw an opportunity to smear Assange and lent on Sweden to trump up the charges.
Re:Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped
by FireBeyond on Thursday August 13, 2015 @12:36PM
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And yet the best they could do was 'these girls who said that he had quasi consensual ('I was sleeping') sex with them and want him to do a HIV test'?
That's a pretty low bar for a smear campaign.
The UK was happy to extradite him to Sweden, we extradite people to the US as long as they aren't going to be executed. So quite why the UK extraditing him to Sweden who would then extradite him to the US is a plausible conspiracy never really gets explained.