Julian Assange
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- yurimon0
Any one who uses the word conspiracy theory in the manor it was intended to be used in its media debut, in my opinion is an idiot.
That word is used to shut people up and stop thinking. when you say "your a conspiracy theorist" you are literately shutting your brain down and effectively giving in to your indoctrination and social conditioning. which is ok. you can be an idiot if you want.Next time why dont you present an argument with proof or have a dialogue based on research to challenge someone.
Intelligent people question and can change their mind upon making conclusions based on experience or proof.
There is too much information out there. I am talking about historic documents and books written by the same people who have the power and intention for the exact same change they described.
So my challenge to all of you is to go ahead prove someone wrong based on something more tangible then your name calling.
- inteliboy0
What's been happening to Assange is sad and scary. Same goes for Kim Dotcom. Right in front of our eyes, clear as day, the corrupt corporate fat cat shills manipulate the world around them to their will whilst we sit back and take it up the ass pretty much.
- i_monk0
You want sad?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oma…- http://en.wikipedia.…pr2
- yeah just gross2002
- huh? what is this a battle of sadness? the topic at hand is assange.inteliboy
- 20020
Not sad at all.
- GeorgesII0
- < this, fuck JulianWeyland
- yikes is that real?inteliboy
- nope. fake, just found it, sorry for posting
http://www.bradleyma…georgesIII - midget poofterebertzjaw
- at least he'll enjoy prison.ebertzjaw
- ukit20
^ So they run the world, but can't Photoshop a picture right?
Looks like we in even more trouble than anyone thought.
- stop putting words in my mouth,
TBO said that I never did,
fuck ukit, you know bettergeorgesIII
- stop putting words in my mouth,
- calculator0
^ Someone's been watching too many movies.
- Projectile0
Has this been posted yet? very interesting summary
- set0
All the animosity towards Assange is quite worrying. You do realise if you have animosity towards the guy you have been completely brain washed by the media... don't you?
The only facts we have about him are that he tried to do the world a service by exposing corruption in corporations, pharmaceutical companies and wrong doings in the diplomatic arena of the world...
Anything else is allegation exposed by the media...
- 20020
all ya'all work for fat cats. get over it.
- autoflavour0
they are having a hissy fit at this emergency meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Assange siege..
they kept demanding a 10 minute break, and have been gone for like 40 minutes at least
- Llyod0
this guy's an asshole. did he really think he could publish state secrets (US or not) without repercussions?
- truth is better than secretsautoflavour
- what were the secrets?Llyod
- send a drone to the ecuador embassyebertzjaw
- I think the assholes are the people who are apologists for state secretsTheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
"Diplomatic immunity is the cornerstone of international politics. Without it — no matter what you may think of diplomats — no meaningful communication is possible among states. Which, obviously, makes conflicts more likely. If a major state, like Britain, attempts to introduce exceptions or "suspensions" of diplomatic immunity the precedent surely would be followed by others. A Chinese dissident, for example, might then be extracted by force from a U.S. diplomatic compound, or a British diplomat found "spying" in Moscow might be detained indefinitely. Such unhappy possibilities should be avoided at almost any cost.
How to explain the British government's threat to Ecuador over Julian Assange? First, it's August. On the continent the serious set are on vacation. It's an enduring tradition that seems to have spread to Her Majesty's government. Presumably more senior (if not more elderly) diplomats were unavailable to curb Whitehall's enthusiasm. According to the New York Times, however, wiser heads have now engaged. Second, British government lawyers drastically over-interpreted a 1987 law passed in response to a female police constable having been killed during a 1984 siege of the Libyan Embassy in London, the gunman later having escaped thanks to diplomatic immunity. No similar set of circumstances exists here; by this non-lawyer's reckoning the law simply does not apply.
But, third, one must now take seriously Julian Assange's fears of ultimate extradition to the U.S. As Mark Weisbrot points out, the Swedes have behaved in an unusually duplicitous fashion, declining to send investigators to interview Assange in Britain or, now, to the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. And forcing Assange to Sweden would never have become such a startlingly high priority for the British government unless something much bigger than rape allegations were at stake. At some point, sooner or later, we'll find out just how much pressure the U.S. has been exerting. Until then we must assume the worst.
To me, Assange's options seem limited. Unless the major states of South America, as one, were to demand and oversee the peaceful transfer of Assange to Ecuador he may well be in for a long stretch of Embassy captivity. It's happened before. See, for example, Cardinal József Mindszenty, who lived for fifteen years in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest.
The only other way out would be for the U.S. to publicly renounce any interest in extraditing Assange if he were in Swedish custody. Assange then, with his mind at ease, could submit himself to Swedish justice. But don't hold your breath..."
http://www.electricpolitics.com/…
George Kenney, former Yugoslav desk officer at the State Department headquarters in DC, who resigned his commission in 1991 over disagreements regarding Clinton's US policy towards the Yugoslav civil war.
- uan0
^^^
At some point, sooner or later, we'll find out just how much pressure the U.S. has been exerting. Until then we must assume the worst.Legalize LSD now! thank you.
- BusterBoy0
If the Brits storm the Embassy, I'm sure they won't mind the Taliban knocking on the door of the British Embassy in Kabul...
- qTime0
Some people are so easily brain washed!
Its like all those people who think the finical crisis is because of governments spending too much on social services.
- qTime0
This have never been more true than today:
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”