Assange to go!

frosty03 said:
Load him into limo with diplomat, diplomatic vehicle.

Drive said limo into back of C-130 at airport. You know who doesnt need to exit vehicle or touch "british soil". Fly off. PROFIT!
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He can't get to a diplomatic vehicle without crossing British territory -

Assange would be protected from arrest if travelling in a diplomatic car, but the embassy is on the first floor of a building that is being watched by police day and night. The tall red-brick block just behind the Harrods department store also houses the Colombian embassy and private apartments. A police van was parked outside the main entrance on Wednesday and police officers were patrolling the area in pairs. The property has several gated entrances and a private car park, but the Ecuadorean embassy is not linked internally with any of them, making the front entrance its only point of exit ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/15/us-wikileaks-assange-idUSBRE87E0T520120815
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RomanNose said:
True, oh well this guy thinks there is no hope of anything happening
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/20/julian-assange-not-exempt-uk-law
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... the 1961 Vienna convention on diplomatic relations, to which both Ecuador and the UK are parties, requires that diplomats respect their host state's laws and regulations. ...
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The US Embassy owes in excess of £5 million in unpaid congestion charges. Of course, the Americans aren't governed by any of that international law nonsense, that only applies to other people ;)

Ken Livingstone famously described the US embassy as a "chiselling little crook".


As to Assange, I am all in favour of his being extradited to Sweden to answer charges of rape.
 
Robbie G said:
The CIA are paying a few Swedish girls large amounts of cash to say he raped them.



Source: my bumhole.
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"Reports that founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks is the victim of a government conspiracy to convict him of sexual assault have surfaced amidst attempts by the US government to extradite him.

For more, we go live to the scene with Robbie's bumhole."
 
Technically speaking the act in question provides for entrance/search of an embassy only when it is know without doubt it is being used for illegal means (and has thus forfitted its protection under the Vienna treaty) but its questionable whether harbouring a fugitive is serious enough to enact it, it was designed for dealing with embassy's involved in drugs/weapons (i.e the Libyan embassy of the day being used to funnel weapons to the IRA).
 
Wonder how much pressure the US are putting on our gov to get him over to sweden where they can get their hands on him.
 
It's hard to believe any allegations are true against a man who has leaked so much sensitive information.

If he is granted asylum, how would they export him out to Ecuador without being intercepted?

From reading comments on news sites, it seems Assange has a lot of supporters. It just stinks of bowing down to the U.S again what people are getting fed up of.
 
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SB118 said:
Wonder how much pressure the US are putting on our gov to get him over to sweden where they can get their hands on him.
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Is it any easier to extradite someone from Sweden to the US than it is from the UK? If it isn't then that sort of puts a hole in that theory...
 
Johnnytoxic said:
It's hard to believe any allegations are true against a man who has leaked so much sensitive information.

If he is granted asylum, how would they export him out to Ecuador without being intercepted?

From reading comments on news sites, it seems Assange has a lot of supporters. It just stinks of bowing down to the U.S again what people are getting fed up of.
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What's it got to do with the US? If they wanted him they would just get him from us!
 
ubersonic said:
Technically speaking the act in question provides for entrance/search of an embassy only when it is know without doubt it is being used for illegal means (and has thus forfitted its protection under the Vienna treaty) but its questionable whether harbouring a fugitive is serious enough to enact it, it was designed for dealing with embassy's involved in drugs/weapons (i.e the Libyan embassy of the day being used to funnel weapons to the IRA).
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And that is the problem, any state can class anyone as a fugitive and bingo. Weren't the US here with China a few months ago?. I do really hope they don't go it, this would be opening Pandora's box.
 
RT Russia Today on Sky is good at providing balanced news.

They keep saying Assange isn't charged with anything, hes only wanted for questioning. Why they can't question him here or at the embassy and then decide to charge?

Will be funny to see if he does end up in the U.S one way or another. Everyone is waking up to how the world is working.

I'd be nervous if I was at the British embassy in Ecuador right now :)
 
[TW]Fox;22572721 said:
What's it got to do with the US? If they wanted him they would just get him from us!
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They want Abu Qatada too.
He wouldn't get benefits in Spain, France or the US and very little in Germany before swift removal to the US or Jordan for torture and solitary confinement. Sweden would be similar.
 
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