How about a swap for that woman who ran over a kid on his bike, then legged it back to the US?Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US to face charges of espionage and of hacking government computers, a British judge has decided.
Lawyers for US authorities are to appeal against the ruling, which rejected arguments that the WikiLeaks co-founder would not get a fair trial in the US but blocked extradition on the basis that procedures in prisons there would not prevent him from potentially taking his own life.
Wearing a mask and a navy suit, the 49-year-old listened from the dock at the central criminal court of England and Wales as the district judge Vanessa Baraitser initially knocked down arguments by his lawyers one after another and accepted the US authorities’ assertion that his alleged activities fell outside of the realm of journalism.
But turning to evidence by eminent medical experts about Assange’s precarious mental health, she said: “The overall impression is of a depressed and sometimes despairing man, who is genuinely fearful about his future.”
“I find that the mental condition of Mr Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America,” she concluded.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/ ... udge-rules
You can't have him...
You can't have him...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: You can't have him...
It's difficult to make up one's mind about Assange. On the one hand I think he did a valuable service by transmitting Chelsea Mannings' discoveries to the world especially about US behaviour in Iraq. On the other hand, he is (allegedly) a piece of shit as a person. Not unlike Bill Clinton who I think was a good president - especially in the light of some recent competition - but a failure as a man. Not just the Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers episodes, but also the way he broke his campaign for the D nomination by flying back to Little Rock so he could sign the death warrant for Ricky Ray Rector.
I wish Sweden did not have a statute of limitations for rape. That is what he was accused of; he should have been man enough to go and stand trial. I doubt that Sweden would have extradited him to USA.
I wish Sweden did not have a statute of limitations for rape. That is what he was accused of; he should have been man enough to go and stand trial. I doubt that Sweden would have extradited him to USA.