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> Ecuadorian embassy withdrew his asylum and UK police were invited in to arrest him. According to a journalist at Sky news https://twitter.com/NewsTMac/status

> Ecuadorian embassy withdrew his asylum and UK police were invited in to arrest him. According to a journalist at Sky news https://twitter.com/NewsTMac/status/1116274082922803200 https://twitter.com/NewsTMac/status/1116274082922803200

peteretep 8y ago
Hard to imagine how that would have ended any other way really. No benefit for the Ecuadorians in man-handling him, he wasn’t going to leave of his own accord, and the Brits (proooobably) weren’t going to storm the place. Pity whomever has to fumigate the room.
- chronogram 8y ago
  Fumigate? Does he smoke or something?
  - belorn 8y ago
    They might be referring to the fact he had a cat, but then I doubt people fumigate all apartments where the previous owner has a cat. If that had been the case then cat ownership would carry a bit higher rent.
    - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
      I have heard that Assange let his cat shit everywhere and didn't clean up after it, FWIW. Perhaps that's what the comment was referencing.
  - jacobush 8y ago
    Reference to his cat
  - theBobBob 8y ago
    There were stories that he wasn't a very good house guest. Didn't clean up after himself or his pet, wasn't very hygienic himself too. Don't know if they are true but wouldn't surprise me to be honest.
    - matt4077 8y ago
      Being a guest to a somewhat sympathetic host, then getting thrown out for failing the house rules on hygiene (cats, condoms,...) seems to be his thing.
    - ryanlol 8y ago
      If he was such a terrible guest why is the old consul going out holding press conferences in his defence?
    - willsr 8y ago
      "Stories" is a good descriptor for unsubstantiated claims made by the Ecuadorian government, which were denied by the former president.
- guiriduro 8y ago
  The Equadorian president Moreno didn't like Wikileaks publishing the INA papers that have lead to accusations of corruption against him. Assange could prbably have forseen that would endanger his asylum but published anyway, kudos to him.
  - monocasa 8y ago
    WikiLeaks didn't publish the INA papers.
DyslexicAtheist 8y ago
no doubt he will be extradited to the US. This has been the game plan all along. Free press my ass. The UK and US are fucking banana republics. The problem is that thanks to them controlling the biggest propaganda machine which has ever existed, their stinky ideas constantly rub off on other Western countries. Anyone from the US still pointing the finger at China or Russia for being non democratic, not free, backward or whatever, deserves exactly what is coming.
- hardlianotion 8y ago
  He jumped bail while accused of a serious crime. Not sure what you are looking for here.
  - antt 8y ago
    And the crime was dropped. This reminds me of being arrested for resisting arrest.
    - hardlianotion 8y ago
      Jumping bail is a crime in itself. Your situation is simply an oxymoron
      - antt 8y ago
        Oh ye who haft not felt the truncheon or the tear gas.
  - thinkingemote 8y ago
    Reload the page extradition to US has been requested, as expected all along
- fsloth 8y ago
  Free press does not mean it's free from any agenda. Rather, it means that anyone with an agenda has the freedom to express their point of view. The main idea that the only agenda accepted publicly are not those presented by the government, hence making the intellectual atmosphere a bit more robust and less sterile. The point why "western press is better than russias" is not about truth but rather inviting an atmosphere where many voices can be heard.
rndgermandude 8y ago
He has been a citizen of Ecuador since 2017. This was an extradition.
- icebraining 8y ago
  Being a citizen is not relevant to whether it's an extradition. "Extradition is an act where one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction". The Ecuadorian embassy doesn't have its own jurisdiction.
  - rndgermandude 8y ago
    They framed it as merely revoking his asylum at which point the UK arrested him. You cannot revoke asylum of your own citizens. Foreign nationals seek asylum. There are quite a few legal differences between extraditing somebody and just letting an arrest happen.

peteretep 8y ago

Hard to imagine how that would have ended any other way really. No benefit for the Ecuadorians in man-handling him, he wasn’t going to leave of his own accord, and the Brits (proooobably) weren’t going to storm the place. Pity whomever has to fumigate the room.

chronogram 8y ago
Fumigate? Does he smoke or something?
- belorn 8y ago
  They might be referring to the fact he had a cat, but then I doubt people fumigate all apartments where the previous owner has a cat. If that had been the case then cat ownership would carry a bit higher rent.
  - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
    I have heard that Assange let his cat shit everywhere and didn't clean up after it, FWIW. Perhaps that's what the comment was referencing.
- jacobush 8y ago
  Reference to his cat
- theBobBob 8y ago
  There were stories that he wasn't a very good house guest. Didn't clean up after himself or his pet, wasn't very hygienic himself too. Don't know if they are true but wouldn't surprise me to be honest.
  - matt4077 8y ago
    Being a guest to a somewhat sympathetic host, then getting thrown out for failing the house rules on hygiene (cats, condoms,...) seems to be his thing.
  - ryanlol 8y ago
    If he was such a terrible guest why is the old consul going out holding press conferences in his defence?
  - willsr 8y ago
    "Stories" is a good descriptor for unsubstantiated claims made by the Ecuadorian government, which were denied by the former president.
guiriduro 8y ago
The Equadorian president Moreno didn't like Wikileaks publishing the INA papers that have lead to accusations of corruption against him. Assange could prbably have forseen that would endanger his asylum but published anyway, kudos to him.
- monocasa 8y ago
  WikiLeaks didn't publish the INA papers.

DyslexicAtheist 8y ago

no doubt he will be extradited to the US. This has been the game plan all along. Free press my ass. The UK and US are fucking banana republics. The problem is that thanks to them controlling the biggest propaganda machine which has ever existed, their stinky ideas constantly rub off on other Western countries. Anyone from the US still pointing the finger at China or Russia for being non democratic, not free, backward or whatever, deserves exactly what is coming.

hardlianotion 8y ago
He jumped bail while accused of a serious crime. Not sure what you are looking for here.
- antt 8y ago
  And the crime was dropped. This reminds me of being arrested for resisting arrest.
  - hardlianotion 8y ago
    Jumping bail is a crime in itself. Your situation is simply an oxymoron
    - antt 8y ago
      Oh ye who haft not felt the truncheon or the tear gas.
- thinkingemote 8y ago
  Reload the page extradition to US has been requested, as expected all along
fsloth 8y ago
Free press does not mean it's free from any agenda. Rather, it means that anyone with an agenda has the freedom to express their point of view. The main idea that the only agenda accepted publicly are not those presented by the government, hence making the intellectual atmosphere a bit more robust and less sterile. The point why "western press is better than russias" is not about truth but rather inviting an atmosphere where many voices can be heard.

rndgermandude 8y ago

He has been a citizen of Ecuador since 2017. This was an extradition.

icebraining 8y ago
Being a citizen is not relevant to whether it's an extradition. "Extradition is an act where one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction". The Ecuadorian embassy doesn't have its own jurisdiction.
- rndgermandude 8y ago
  They framed it as merely revoking his asylum at which point the UK arrested him. You cannot revoke asylum of your own citizens. Foreign nationals seek asylum. There are quite a few legal differences between extraditing somebody and just letting an arrest happen.