Posted on 05/01/2019 7:34:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They say the wheels of justice grind slowly, but that’s primarily in the United States. Over in Great Britain, they’re apparently capable of moving at lightning speed when the need arises. Less than three weeks after being dragged out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London and arrested, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been convicted and sentenced to fifty weeks in jail on a failure to appear charge after he skipped bail in 2012. Man… that was fast. (NBC News)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced by a British judge on Wednesday to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail in England and hiding out for seven years in the country’s Ecuadorean Embassy.
Assange, 47, failed to report to a police station on June 29, 2012, when he was fighting extradition to Sweden to face charges of sexual assault and rape. Instead, he fled to Ecuador’s embassy in London where he spent the next 2,487 days.
Last month, Ecuador finally withdrew Assange’s diplomatic asylum, and he was arrested by British police. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to surrender to police, relating to his flight in 2012, but he was convicted at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Of all the things Assange has been wanted for by law enforcement, this seemed like one of the least interesting or serious charges. He was wanted in Sweden on rape charges that were later dropped (though they’ve recently expressed interest in opening the case again). We have a pending extradition request to bring him to the United States for a chat about what he was up to with Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning. And he winds up getting nearly a year in jail for skipping bail?
According to the Brits, Assange will appear in court again tomorrow (via video link rather than in person) to hear the extradition request. There’s already a second court date set for the middle of June when he will respond to that order. Since he gets to automatically appeal the decision (assuming the Brits agree to the request), it’s being estimated that it could take as much as two years to get him on American soil.
And what about the Swedes? If they want to put him on trial for the sexual assault charges, who gets the first crack at him? Assange is 47 years old now. At the rate this process is moving, he could be well into his fifties before we ever get him in front of a judge.
But in the end, Julian Assange has spent just shy of seven years in what amounted to a prison in the Ecuadorean embassy, though that was by his own choice. He emerged only to be immediately tossed in an actual jail cell for a few weeks and is now on the way to nearly a year in prison. Law enforcement in two other countries is keen on the idea that he might spend some time in their prisons. There’s a very real chance that these stories will define the rest of his life.
I wonder if his sentence length has something to do with the 2020 election cycle and keeping him under wraps until it is over?
So after 50 days, the DNC can open again more hearings.
This is never going to come to an end
START SPILLING ASSANGE!
Before they make certain you can’t
He was reckless:
He should have molested 20 school-girls, beheaded a drummer, maybe home invade and beat-up some old, helpless people.
Shoulda stuck with the innocuous stuff.
I’d say you were correct.
The Deep State wants to keep him in the UK and incommunicado as long as possible.
So Julian gets tried and convicted with two weeks of being dragged out of that embassy.
How long did it take for American courts to get Nidal Hasan to trial? He was charged with killing 14 enlisted Army men at Fort Hood, Texas. I think it took at least eight years.
Sounds more like a 'contempt of court' thing - which our judges can do quickly too.
He should have molested 20 school-girls, beheaded a drummer, maybe home invade and beat-up some old, helpless people.
Shoulda stuck with the innocuous stuff.
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he could just “identify” as a muslim migrant.
they're never charged with rapes in Sweden
50 weeks.
Interesting timing there, eh?
Meanwhile Roman Polanski skipped bail and has evaded jail all this time.
The difference between them is the swamp.
Sounds like a bunch of democrats, with charges always hovering in the background even though they have nothing solid to go on. This is not justice.
“So Julian gets tried and convicted with two weeks of being dragged out of that embassy.”
And then there is the Clinton Cartel still running around shooting their mouths of with impunity.
Was the alleged rape victim named Christine?
Given where he has been, I would say time served.
I’m surprised they didn’t say “until the Democrat convention is finished”.
I’d say it’s already too late.
He will be virtually incommunicado. No?
The Deep State wants Assange dead and/or in prison for reporting/journalism & reporting on documented war crimes.
President Trump should get him out of the pokey or Trump may well lose reelection.
Ain't that the effin truth. We have REAL law breakers here (mostly working in DC) that will never see the inside of a jail cell or the hangman's noose. Crying shame what this country has become.
The land of honey is turning into a the land of the honey bucket.
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