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> On what basis do you say that no extradition request has never been filed? You're asking the parent to prove a negative, which is impossible. No public extra
by Analemma_ 9y ago
> On what basis do you say that no extradition request has never been filed?
You're asking the parent to prove a negative, which is impossible. No public extradition request has ever been filed-- indeed, the United States has never so much as commented on it-- and so the burden of proof is on you to show that there is such a request. And no, links on "justice4assange.com" aren't convincing
- namelost 9y agoThe context is whether Assange's behaviour is rational. If it is impossible to determine whether an extradition request has been filed, then he has to assume that one has been filed. So in fact the burden of proof is the other way around.
- jcranmer 9y agoThe existence of even a mechanism for secret extradition requests is itself unsubstantiated. Without that, the burden of proof is still on Assange to substantiate why we should expect to be unable to find any proof to support his claims.
- namelost 9y agoFor Assange this is a life and death situation. Sure the US will have to promise not to execute him, but nobody can stop them keeping him in conditions where he wishes he was dead. Just ask Manning. So I maintain that Assange is acting rationally regardless of whether he is "right" or "wrong".
- thesmallestcat 9y agoAnd that's what's so twisted about secret indictments. Straight out of Kafka.