Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy
by bjourne on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:18PM
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That doesn't make sense because he was walking around freely in Sweden and was not afraid of being extradited before the rape allegations. If the US wanted to, they could have asked any allied or friendly nation to arrest and extradite him many years earlier.
Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy
by toomanybeersies on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:04AM
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I would if I really stood for what I believed in and wanted to prove that the US government was really as bad as I say it was.
So if I was Assange, yes I would.
Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy
by woodman on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:16AM
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Martyrdom... the dumbest way to measure the correctness of one's argument.
Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy
by veidr on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:34AM
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You embarrass yourself. Should the people who figured out that asbestos caused cancer have proved it by inhaling asbestos dust on camera, and then contracting cancer?
If you were one of them, would you do that?
The U.S. has claimed the right to kidnap people off the street, detain them indefinitely, or kill them as it deems necessary. I'd be very surprised if any of those tactics would be used on Assange, but in that context pressuring/asking another country to deport him to the U.S. to face charges seems within the realm of possibility.
If you were Assange, would you want to gamble life in prison on your odds, whatever they are?