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from the can't-get-there-from-here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIJBUZm1HoY dept.
Like any techno-political soap opera watcher, I've on occasion wondered why it is so damned hard for Julian Assange to get away from that embassy.
Riddle me this: you've been stuck in a little room in Equador's embassy in London for 8 years. You can't leave without getting arrested and most likely extradited.
A few countries not friendly to the U.S., but most notably Russia, have tried to figure out how to get you out of there
Your crimes are mostly pissing off people in power in the way journalists really should, but there is also compelling evidence of at least one actual crime — that you provided material assistance to someone hacking secret information. If the U.S. gets hold of you, you can pretty much count on paying the piper.
Still, you have hordes of supporters, and even entire countries with not insignificant resources willing to give a hand if only to tweak the nose of the U.S.
Diplomatic vehicles, helicopters, disguises, being made an ambassador yourself, just plain sneaking out... nothing has panned out.
So what are your options? Jetpack? Smuggle in parts of a drone capable of carrying a person? VTOL car? Urban ghillie suit? Rocket skates? Dig a tunnel in the basement? It seems hard to believe that the bored lax surveillance of 8 years on can't be defeated by a motivated technogencia.
You've probably only got one shot...so how would you do it?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by J053 on Thursday December 27 2018, @12:56AM (2 children)
Given that there is no known (yeah there could be a secret order or something, but nobody has shown any real evidence of one) extradition request from the US, he could just surrender to the English Courts, serve his sentence for bail-jumping, and then go wherever he wants.
But then, Assange is pretty much a drama queen.
(Score: 5, Informative) by RandomFactor on Thursday December 27 2018, @01:12AM
There was evidence posted of this a while ago. Charges against Assange were inadvertantly disclosed in a separate court filing.
Here's a link:https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/16/julian-assange-charged-in-secret-mistake-on-us-court-filing-suggests
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday December 27 2018, @02:47AM
If he wanted to walk out of there, with some hair dye, a little makeup and a wardrobe change he could have walked out disguised as any of the normal visitors to the embassy who fit his general build description - it's not like they're all DNA sequenced before "The Yard" stops tracking their every move.
Once loose in the English countryside, a little switchy-changey with the costume and he could take a trip on a pleasure boat which meets a fishing boat just out of sight of land, or any number of other un-monitored ways to leave the country. Of course, this type of exit is a crime and anyone who helps him, yadda yadda.
The interesting challenge would be to set it up without anyone getting wind of the plan via SIG INT. Considering who he pissed off, he'
d have to have tremendously big brass ones to think that he could ever pull it off without getting picked up in transit to the next safe destination, and where is safer than a friendly embassy in London?
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