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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: jeremyp on October 19, 2018, 09:43:54 PM

Title: Biting the hand that feeds you.
Post by: jeremyp on October 19, 2018, 09:43:54 PM: This is bizarre.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45915017

Julian Assange, bail jumper is suing the country that has been protecting him from Swedish and British justice.
Title: Re: Biting the hand that feeds you.
Post by: Robbie on October 19, 2018, 10:26:34 PM: Creepy bloke, can't make him out.
Title: Re: Biting the hand that feeds you.
Post by: Steve H on October 19, 2018, 10:32:26 PM: Narcissistic, psychopathic little shit.
Title: Re: Biting the hand that feeds you.
Post by: Roses on October 20, 2018, 09:13:28 AM: Assange must have lost his marbles, I hope they boot him out of the Embassy.
Title: Re: Biting the hand that feeds you.
Post by: jeremyp on October 20, 2018, 03:03:57 PM: Quote from: Littleroses on October 20, 2018, 09:13:28 AM
Assange must have lost his marbles, I hope they boot him out of the Embassy.
So do I because it is still costing us some money to make sure he doesn't sneak out and try to evade justice.

Also, I think the best explanation of his behaviour is that he believes himself to be guilty of the rape charges from Sweden.
Title: Re: Biting the hand that feeds you.
Post by: Roses on October 20, 2018, 04:57:09 PM: It is laughable and would be thrown out of court if it ever got that far.
Title: Re: Biting the hand that feeds you.
Post by: Robbie on October 20, 2018, 05:16:39 PM: Quote from: jeremyp on October 20, 2018, 03:03:57 PM
So do I because it is still costing us some money to make sure he doesn't sneak out and try to evade justice.

Also, I think the best explanation of his behaviour is that he believes himself to be guilty of the rape charges from Sweden.

I thought the rape charge had been dropped.
Title: Re: Biting the hand that feeds you.
Post by: jeremyp on October 20, 2018, 06:42:29 PM: Quote from: Robbie on October 20, 2018, 05:16:39 PM
I thought the rape charge had been dropped.

The European Arrest Warrant was withdrawn because Sweden saw no prospect of getting Assange back to Sweden. If he ever leaves the Ecuador Embassy, they can still apply for another one.
Title: Re: Biting the hand that feeds you.
Post by: Robbie on October 20, 2018, 06:54:50 PM: Ah right.
Title: Re: Biting the hand that feeds you.
Post by: Steve H on October 20, 2018, 07:57:53 PM: As someone pointed out in the 'Grauniad', there's a certain irony in the fact that he's avoiding extradition to a country with one of the best human rights records in the world by hiding out in the embassy of a country with a poor human rights record.