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Whether the charges are currently filed isn't important; they always can file the charges later. The U.S. has claimed the right to kidnap people off the street
by hackuser 10y ago
Whether the charges are currently filed isn't important; they always can file the charges later.
The U.S. has claimed the right to kidnap people off the street, detain them indefinitely, or kill them as it deems necessary. I'd be very surprised if any of those tactics would be used on Assange, but in that context pressuring/asking another country to deport him to the U.S. to face charges seems within the realm of possibility.
If you were Assange, would you want to gamble life in prison on your odds, whatever they are?
- toomanybeersies 10y agoI would if I really stood for what I believed in and wanted to prove that the US government was really as bad as I say it was. So if I was Assange, yes I would.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoThen maybe you're just worried about disappearing, or "killing yourself."
- woodman 10y agoMartyrdom... the dumbest way to measure the correctness of one's argument.
- veidr 10y agoYou embarrass yourself. Should the people who figured out that asbestos caused cancer have proved it by inhaling asbestos dust on camera, and then contracting cancer? If you were one of them, would you do that?
- bjourne 10y agoThat doesn't make sense because he was walking around freely in Sweden and was not afraid of being extradited before the rape allegations. If the US wanted to, they could have asked any allied or friendly nation to arrest and extradite him many years earlier.