Posted on 12/06/2010 6:14:15 PM PST by FS11
Assange is seeking supporters to put up surety and bail for him. He said he expected to have to post bail of between £100,000 and £200,000 and would require up to six people offering surety, or risked being held on remand.
In recent days Assange, 39, has told friends that he is increasingly convinced the US is behind Swedish prosecutors' attempts to extradite him for questioning on the assault allegations. He has said the original allegations against him were motivated by "personal issues" but that Sweden had subsequently behaved as "a cipher" for the US. He has also said he declined to return to Sweden to face prosecutors because he feared he would not receive a fair trial and prosecutors had requested that he be held in solitary confinement and incommunicado.
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Gee, I hope so.
Bail? This man is the definition od a flight risk.
That Swedish sex charge is a joke,completely trumped up. This man is providing the transparency that we all want in government. Didn’t you want yo know that Saudi Arabia is providing millions of dollars to the Al Queada to kill our troops? You didn’t hear that from the media ,did you? You don’t even hear it now because we would have to attack Saudi Arabia for doing such a thing, would we not?
Gee, I wonder if he’s begun to have regrets about pi$$ing off every government in the civilized world.
Even his threats to release more information won’t save him because everyone thinks he will do so anyway.
Perhaps the US can make a claim for jurisdiction under international law based on the fact that the stolen information originated here? If so, he’s in even deeper doodoo that having to serve a prefunctory sentence for a Swedish rape charge.
If he disappears and the Doomsday files are not published then we know that BO has arranged asylum for him in exchange for his silence.
If he disappears and the Doomsday files are published and there is nothing damaging to BO in them then we know that BO and Holder have once again aided Assange in publishing BO’s WikiLeaks.
Governments keep secrets, always have and always will. No country can operate if every decision is put to a popular vote. Just look at what the i-pod generation did when they voted this last POTUS election cycle.
This guy is an anarchist, and he needs to be removed from the general population.
BTW, Saudi links to terror have been common knowledge here on freepers for some time, the MSM is nothing but entertainment shows to sell consumer goods.
Amen...I just dont understand some people here. I would like to know just how many people may be executed because of this joker and manning? Possibly others. This disgusts me to no end.
You are going after the wrong guy. The guy you need to prosecute is the one who actually stole the documents and gave it to Wikileaks, not the owner of Wikileaks. Otherwise, you could end up arresting every newspaper’s owner for publishing leaks. Keep in mind that Assange is not an American. You really need to get hold of the guy who stole the data and put it out. What if the person who stole the data posted it on Fox News comments section? Would you call for arresting Rupert Murdoch?
I love reading the leftie wailings on the message boards about how this guy is being railroaded, etc.
I agree, but not totally. Sure, the guy who stole the stuff is bad, but to publish it? If your nephew sent you the stuff, imagine what you would do with it. Of course, you would do what is right. Destroy, shred, notify, whatever. You would not publish.
Why is he not being charged with treason by the USA?
"He left the London restaurant at twilight, heading into the shadows he declined to say where he was going"-NYTimes
But, he just can't be found. Read even the Taliban had a list and were checking it twice. Perhaps we aren't really looking? Clinton and Obama won't come out of this unscathed politically. If they caught Assange what would they do with him? Easier to plug each leak, do the necessary damage control and hope the leaks come to an end or just let someone else do the job-like Scotland Yard.
Meanwhile: President Barack Obama designates December as "Critical Infrastructure Protection Month
There are two big differences. This was not an American who published it. He is a foreigner. Second, it was not his nephew.
Having said that, you are right I would notify the authorities if I received classified documents from the American government, BUT what do you think NYT would do? They would publish it.
Seems we are in complete agreement. Sorry for the super subtle joke, as only a few would get it. I live near Ogunquit Me, one of the more openly gay communities in the country. Nephew is a code for younger homosexual lover. My poor attmept at poitically incorrect humor without getting called out by the correctness police.
Meanwhile a former adviser to Prime Minister Harper, now a College professor in Calgary, Alberta, is under fire. The hissy fit leftist human rights brigade is quoting his statement that Assange should be taken out by a drone. Surely a jest. They are after the man though.
They have exhausted the public's patience crying for the repatriation of the "boy soldier" Khadr, who murdered a US soldier and blinded another in one eye. He is still in Guantanamo Bay. Always ready to find a cause. Criticism of Muslim extremists is very muted though.
He isn’t a US citizen.
Assange wouldn't have to worry about wussy Western governments if the Religion of Peace folks were out to get him.
Yes, considering Salman Rushdie of the "Satanic Verses" was in very real danger because of the fatwa it tells us something. Hundreds of 'em screaming for Rushdie's blood in England. The police turning a deaf ear of course.
They will go to the wall for Assange and he is asking backers for the equivalent in dollars of about four hundred thousand for his possible bail. Calling Mr Soros? No justice apparently.
Good point. Then why haven’t we charged him with espionage?
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