LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police and carried out of the Ecuadorean embassy on Thursday after his South American hosts abruptly revoked his seven-year asylum, paving the way for his possible extradition to the United States.
An agitated, frail-looking Assange with white hair and a white beard was carried out of the embassy by at least seven men to a waiting police van.
“Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday 11 April, been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) at the Embassy of Ecuador,” British police said.
Police said they arrested Assange after being invited into the embassy following the Ecuadorean government’s withdrawal of asylum. Police later added that Assange had been arrested a second time after an extradition request from the United States.
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I haven’t followed everything Assange has/had done
But…
I kinda looked towards Assange as a Hero
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A lot of people do. I would be interested to see what our government is alleging.
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My point X-actly. First off, I’m wondering what kind of backdoor deal was done to get Ecuador to toss him to the curb.
Getting the Brits to extradite him required an innocuous charge so that the government and civilian nutjobs wouldn’t raise 9 kinds of hell about putting him on a plane.
They’re not going after him right now, it seems, on the loss of the classified info, but his being complicit in helping s/he steal the info, assisting in illegally breaking into a protected Federal information system.
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#$%@&% Chromebook…
Thing is, how many times did Private s/he TRY to break into that classified system? Each attempt could be a separate and indictable offense. I’m not up on cybercrime charges but if past is prologue the lawgivers have put sooooo many parsed individual crimes on the books a small copse will have to be harvested to provide paper to the cops who charge him. And then as Private s/he discussed the matter with Assange we have conspiracy and if someone has a really sharp pencil we might even have RICO charges.
I’m sure they’re going to use the giant economy size scuttle to pile on the charges, a good bargaining tool, and try to bury him. I’m wondering if Private s/he will be called under threat of being tarred with new charges? Assange is in the soup now, maybe he should contact Martha Stewart about celeb status in a Fed pen…bet it ain’t a Good Thing.
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Interested to see how this one turns out. Do we have a larger dual system of justice than we know?
The Supreme Court ruled in 1971 that it was ok to publish the Pentagon Papers. Going by the left’s reliance and insistence on stare decisis, Assange, being a publisher, should be cleared.
But the Robert’s court is not as reliant recently on stare decisis as past courts. Last year the Robert’s court overturned 3 prior SCOTUS cases.
But will DOJ argue Assange is a hacker, which Assange def is? Hackers are good guys as well as bad guys.
Those who leaked the info to Assange should be caught and punished. imo
“Stare Decisis: Overturning Supreme Court Precedents [No. 86]” 4:05
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I didn’t realize he was a hacker. I thought he only published what others hacked.
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Assange’s first arrest was when he was 11, for hacking the DOD.
Assange was caught, more than once. Which means, to me anyway, Assange was not a very good hacker. After all, many good hackers are still here, talking to their imaginary friends online 😉
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Boo to those who arrest the honest! Jail those who hide, not publish, the truth! G-d bless w-leaks and Jassange!
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The charge that the USA has against him only has a maximum 5 years! Something fishy I am smelling.
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Man Julian looks terrible and sounds terrified.
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