Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of guilt or threat

Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by DarkWiiPlayer on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:26AM (#17715288)

At least with Assange they bothered fabricating an excuse¹. Look at Snowden for a good example of how the USA won't even bother with something like that.

¹ Most likely, though nobody can say 100% for sure if it's just a fabrication in the end. But it does all seem rather suspicious.

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Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by candiodari on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:56AM (#17715475)

Note that it was European countries that complied with the orders, and local European courts that agreed with and ordered enforcement of the orders, all without so much as hearing Assange, and all at the request of a foreign government (if true).

Note the technique used by the European courts:

> On 20 August 2010, two women, a 26-year-old living in Enköping and a 31-year-old living in Stockholm,[6][7] jointly went to the Swedish police not seeking to bring charges against Assange but in order to track him down and persuade him to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases after their separate sexual encounters with him.[8] The police told them that they could not simply tell Assange to take a test, but that their statements would be passed to the prosecutor.[9] Later that day, the duty prosecutor ordered the arrest of Julian Assange on the suspicion of rape and molestation.

So it was the Swedish government, NOT the women, that came up, with very flimsy justification, with the rape charge.

And let's just ask it: if they do that at the request of a (very) far away government, lying about that fact, do you think this is the only time they do such a thing ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...

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