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It's touching that the author of this article thinks the only relevant points are the legal small print of the UK and Sweden. But if you think about it some mor
by Tycho 14y ago
It's touching that the author of this article thinks the only relevant points are the legal small print of the UK and Sweden. But if you think about it some more, you might realise that Assange chose the UK as his destination because he felt the public and the press would exert enough pressure on the government to shield him from any political manoeuvrings.
I propose a new metric for situations like this. Rate the likelihood that the suspect would commit this act (quite low in this case as it would be incredibly stupid given his circumstances and also not something he has a history of); the convenience the situation represents to his enemies (very high in this case, as it buys the US time to prepare their extradition case, or execute whatever agreement they have already with the Swedish government); and the ease with which his enemies could indeed set him up (easy in this case - word of two women and one co-operative prosecutor, no evidence required and no risk of alibi or counter-evidence). Now multiply these factors together and you have the Conspiracy Index of the situation.
- tptacek 14y agoWe could invent a "new metric for situations like this" involving estimates of the "likelihood" that suspects would "commit the act" and estimates of "the convenience of the situation to the enemies of those suspects" and the "ease with which the suspect's enemies could set them up". Or we could just have the rule of law.
- Tycho 14y agoI really want to revisit this post in a few months when Assange has either been jailed on extremely flimsy evidence or handed over to America using an extradition treaty, to see how you rationalise that sequence of events.
- Kell 14y agoAnd if he's actually found innocent or guilty with serious evidences ? Will you also come back and say that you are sorry ?
- Riesling 14y agoI would not make the mistake of trusting the law per se. Law is far from being deterministic. It is merely a framework used for discussing concrete events. This is what drove me away from studying law after having done it for three full years. You have all those reasonable and just rules that get thrown over board (by re-interpreting them or bending the meaning of words) as soon as they collide with a greater purpose. As someone who has switched sides let me tell you of how lucky we can be that in computer science a zero is a zero and a one is a one.