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Another take, with no more or less evidence as far as I can tell: He essentially had no choice, as it was obvious he was going to be railroaded at any trial, an

Another take, with no more or less evidence as far as I can tell: He essentially had no choice, as it was obvious he was going to be railroaded at any trial, and would likely be bounced to the US at some point.

microtherion 7y ago
This was far from "obvious". Extradition from Sweden would have been harder than from the UK.
- stale2002 7y ago
  But he was right. It happened. He was proven correct. The people who disagreed were just wrong. And I think it is OK to call the people who didn't believe this, to have been extremely misinformed.
  - microtherion 7y ago
    He was extradited from the UK, not from Sweden.
    - pugwash 7y ago
      He hasn't been extradited from anywhere to anywhere. He's still serving time in prison for jumping bail, and he will have a chance to argue against his extradition to the US early next year. If he does lose his extradition battle and does get sent to the US, he will have a further opportunity to defend himself against the crimes that he is accused of committing there. In other words, the legal avenues that the moron could have availed himself of a decade ago are now open to him. If anyone thinks that Assange was ever in danger of being extraordinarily renditioned to the US from Sweden then they need to consider that a decade ago he was high-profile enough for the Ecuadorians to stick their necks out for him.
- monocasa 7y ago
  Extraordinary rendition from Sweden would have been much easier though.
- belorn 7y ago
  Not if the request was dropped before he got to Sweden. The prosecutor demonstrated that point very clearly today.
lordlimecat 7y ago
> and would likely be bounced to the US at some point. From Sweden? He fled Sweden, which has stronger protections against extradition, for the UK which has weaker protections. Had he been extradited from the UK to Sweden, further extradition to the US would have been prohibited.

microtherion 7y ago

This was far from "obvious". Extradition from Sweden would have been harder than from the UK.

stale2002 7y ago
But he was right. It happened. He was proven correct. The people who disagreed were just wrong. And I think it is OK to call the people who didn't believe this, to have been extremely misinformed.
- microtherion 7y ago
  He was extradited from the UK, not from Sweden.
  - pugwash 7y ago
    He hasn't been extradited from anywhere to anywhere. He's still serving time in prison for jumping bail, and he will have a chance to argue against his extradition to the US early next year. If he does lose his extradition battle and does get sent to the US, he will have a further opportunity to defend himself against the crimes that he is accused of committing there. In other words, the legal avenues that the moron could have availed himself of a decade ago are now open to him. If anyone thinks that Assange was ever in danger of being extraordinarily renditioned to the US from Sweden then they need to consider that a decade ago he was high-profile enough for the Ecuadorians to stick their necks out for him.
monocasa 7y ago
Extraordinary rendition from Sweden would have been much easier though.
belorn 7y ago
Not if the request was dropped before he got to Sweden. The prosecutor demonstrated that point very clearly today.

lordlimecat 7y ago

> and would likely be bounced to the US at some point. From Sweden? He fled Sweden, which has stronger protections against extradition, for the UK which has weaker protections. Had he been extradited from the UK to Sweden, further extradition to the US would have been prohibited.