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> At this point, Craig's only remaining option is to appeal to the EU court of human rights, but that's gonna be a tough one because he's pissed off the America
by alisonkisk 5y ago
> At this point, Craig's only remaining option is to appeal to the EU court of human rights, but that's gonna be a tough one because he's pissed off the Americans too much with the Assange case
Does the EU Court of Human Rights care whar Americans think about him?
- kstenerud 5y agoThe member states care about America's friendship and cooperation on many things. You have to follow the power to see what the results will be. Personally, I think he's just doing it to have a record for posterity once it's rejected, to turn common knowledge about EU-USA corrupting power relationships into public knowledge (although I don't share his hope that this will ever become public knowledge - but then again it takes an idealist to fight these kinds of battles).
- torstenvl 5y agoThe courts deciding against his argument would only be probative on the question of corruption if you start from the presumption that his position is correct. Your post is entirely circular in its reasoning.
- fauigerzigerk 5y agoThis is not in fact an EU court. It's the court that interprets the European Convention on Human Rights. It's part of the Council of Europe where the U.S has observer status and Russia as well as the UK are members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights
- tomatotomato37 5y agoIn the world of realpolitik which do you think matters more? A. The opinion of a world superpower with a military to match B. Ideals
- vkou 5y agoIt depends on the question.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoOnly as a side effect of which ideals a superpower happens to be espousing at that moment.