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It is the same conventional wisdom that held that the Swedish state prosecutor would never break Swedish laws in order to keep a prosecution indefinitely ongoin
by belorn 2y ago
It is the same conventional wisdom that held that the Swedish state prosecutor would never break Swedish laws in order to keep a prosecution indefinitely ongoing. Naturally the US had no plan to charge Assange the same day that the Swedish state prosecutor had to drop. Then a higher court actually found the state prosecutor breaking Swedish law, because as a state prosecutor is not legally allowed in Sweden to keep a prosecution going indefinitely. Conventional wisdom among Swedish legal professors at universities held that the behavior of the state prosecutor was a bit odd given that they know from a very early on that the whole deal was illegal.
It is very strange. I wonder if it possible could have something to do with foreign affairs, which a state prosecutor is by law very much forbidden to take instructions from. That would be in defiance of the rule of law, but then, they were already in defiance of the rule of law.
- vilhelm_s 2y agoSurely you don't need any conspiracy for the US to charge him at the same time as the Swedish prosecutor drops charges? That can be done unilaterally by the US prosecutor.
- teractiveodular 2y agoIf the Swedish prosecutor had dropped charges before the US got around to charging him, Julian would have walked free. So it's awfully convenient that the charges were "substituted", so to speak, on the same day.
- vilhelm_s 2y agoHm, I just looked up the timeline, and I don't see any conincidence. It's like: 6 March 2018, a U.S. grand jury charges Assange, but it is secret. 11 April 2019, Ecuador expels him from the embassy, the UK arrests him for skipping bail. 11 April 2019, the U.S. unseals the charges and asks for him to be extradited. 13 May 2019, Sweden re-opens the rape investigation because he is now potentially available to be extradicted again. 19 November 2019, Sweden closes the investigation because the evidence is too old. There is no "same day" coincidence at all, and Assange was never free to walk because he would always face criminal prosecution in Britain for skipping bail.
- glenstein 2y agoThe conspiracy is in the coordination of charges to facilitate extradition to the United States. And it turned out there was in fact a sealed indictment in the United States this whole time.
- Yossarrian22 2y agoMarch of 2018 is hardly the whole time.
- glenstein 2y agoJust eight years. And validating everyone's concerns all the years preceding that it was necessary to anticipate.