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  • #16
    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
    That is what I was thinking. The Justice Dept News release mentioned 5 years max. Heck he would have been better off just doing the 5 years and being a free man rather than living like a hermit holed up in an embassy all these years.
    Even prisoners get regular exercise and exposure to the sun.
    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
    Than a fool in the eyes of God

    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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    • #17
      Originally posted by seer View Post
      I wonder if England will actually send him back to the US for trial...
      Extradition process likely to be at least one year, sometimes several years long. There is a legal process to go through and I expect that Assange will not want to go Stateside if he can help it.

      I can imagine that people here might want to ask him about the 2016 US election shenanigans, making due allowance for journalistic freedoms. Without Assange, no Trump?
      Last edited by firstfloor; 04-12-2019, 05:34 AM.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Sparko View Post
        I keep looking at this picture and thinking, "They arrested Santa Claus!"
        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
        Than a fool in the eyes of God

        From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
          I keep looking at this picture and thinking, "They arrested Santa Claus!"
          or


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          • #20
            Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
            The death penalty for spying does exist in US law, so it's possible but unlikely to apply to Assange's case. However, his lawyers apparently used that mere possibility as an excuse to never have him extradited to the US.
            FWIU he's actually looking at charges that typically result in a sentence of 5-10 years.

            I'm always still in trouble again

            "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
              He looked like Manson...
              More like Santa Claus on crack. Especially sme of the pix of him being dragged from the embassy.



              As an aside I've heard rumors that his cat had a lot to do with the Ecuadorians finally getting fed up with him. Apparently they got tired f it ripping up expensive furniture, coughing up fur balls and defecating on rare carpets and the like.

              Would be kinda funny if that's what got him kicked out.

              I'm always still in trouble again

              "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
              "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
              "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                Even prisoners get regular exercise and exposure to the sun.
                He's seems to be afraid of other prisoners either beating or even killing him with guards turning a blind eye toward it.

                I'm always still in trouble again

                "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                  More like Santa Claus on crack. Especially sme of the pix of him being dragged from the embassy.



                  As an aside I've heard rumors that his cat had a lot to do with the Ecuadorians finally getting fed up with him. Apparently they got tired f it ripping up expensive furniture, coughing up fur balls and defecating on rare carpets and the like.

                  Would be kinda funny if that's what got him kicked out.
                  What got him kicked out was a lack of respect for his hosts



                  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...sy/3350973002/

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                    What got him kicked out was a lack of respect for his hosts



                    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...sy/3350973002/
                    and according to that story Assange is only 47! The years have not been kind to him. He looks like he is in his 70s.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                      As an aside I've heard rumors that his cat had a lot to do with the Ecuadorians finally getting fed up with him. Apparently they got tired f it ripping up expensive furniture, coughing up fur balls and defecating on rare carpets and the like.
                      That... is entirely plausible. I suspect they do these things out of pure spite. I should know. I have three of them!
                      Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                      But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                      Than a fool in the eyes of God

                      From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                        That... is entirely plausible. I suspect they do these things out of pure spite. I should know. I have three of them!

                        I'm always still in trouble again

                        "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                        "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                        "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                        • #27
                          Rule of Specialty - charges and extradition, you cannot add additional charges after you have him in US custody.

                          Will Barr ignore WikiLeaks role in election interference?

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by dirtfloor View Post
                            Will Barr ignore WikiLeaks role in election interference?
                            https://theconservativetreehouse.com...2016-election/
                            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                            Than a fool in the eyes of God

                            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                            • #29
                              Apparently the president of Ecuador also claims that Assange was physically assaulting guards in there.
                              "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                                As usual, there's more to this than is immediately obvious

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                                ........ a fraudulent probe, and so on ...

                                https://theconservativetreehouse.com...2016-election/
                                Maybe you could sue Trump for driving you insane.

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