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> Britain doesn't enter the equation because he's not on British soil. He was on British soil for months while his extradition case dragged on. And whatever "c
by mpyne 12y ago
> Britain doesn't enter the equation because he's not on British soil.
He was on British soil for months while his extradition case dragged on. And whatever "covert" ties Sweden has with NATO (which is not the USA), the U.K. has substantially many more with the U.S. directly. The "special relationship" is a real thing, so if some sort of covert rendition were a real worry for Assange, it would have already happened without needing to involve a Scandinavian nation.
> That said, he's just wanted for questioning. Which he's repeatedly said he's happy to do remotely via video conference.
He's wanted for questioning as part of his arrest and formal charge proferring. You can't book people by VTC last I checked; either way, Assange is in no position to unilaterally demand the conditions of his treatment as compared to any other defendant under Swedish law. Does he think he's royalty or something, and above the law as applied to the rest of Sweden?
> If the Swedish prosecutor actually wanted to talk to Assange like they say the do, they could do it today.
See above.
> Also: Aardin immediately invited Assange to a crayfish party after she was allegedly raped. That's really odd behaviour, especially from a well known feminist.
Perhaps. If only there was some deliberative process by which a group of persons might decide where that nugget of evidence stacks up in determining whether Assange is actually guilty or not guilty, we could help clear all this up.
- nailer 12y ago> The "special relationship" is a real thing, so if some sort of covert rendition were a real worry for Assange, it would have already happened without needing to involve a Scandinavian nation. It could have been that this was the most convenient excuse. > He's wanted for questioning as part of his arrest Yes, they've asked to arrest - ie, detain - him to question him. They haven't charged him with any crime. I think there's a very real danger that someone wants to punish him for exposing government war crimes. But maybe you're right and it's just because he's a primadonna and the US government is pretty chilled out about the whole thing.
- mpyne 12y ago> Yes, they've asked to arrest - ie, detain - him to question him. They haven't charged him with any crime. He's been properly charged. The fact that this meme refuses to die is my whole point about tribalism, the meme's not merely misleading, it's false, and yet it continues to persist, and for no reason. After all, he might very well be found not guilty, especially if the evidence against him is so flimsy as his supporters claim, but Assange has prevented the trial from even reaching that point, and his supporters believe that this is proper because the situation pertains to His Wikiness and for no other reason. The "questioning" they will be doing of Assange is to ensure that there are no mitigating facts that Assange would be able to bring to cause the prosecutor to rescind the charges based on the mounds of evidence already accumulated. Afterwards he will be immediately taken into custody (and somehow I doubt he will be released on bail given his current ongoing flight from justice). Nor is this simply a rogue prosecutor in Sweden, Assange's case was heard by an appeals court in Sweden and in multiple appeals courts in the U.K., all of which determined that there was sufficient evidence shown to demonstrate that the trial could proceed.