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posted by mrcoolbp on Tuesday May 12 2015, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the losing-battle dept.

Sweden's highest court has thrown out Julian Assange's appeal against his arrest warrant where he is wanted for questioning. Prosecutor Marianne Ny changed her mind earlier about questioning Assange in London. Assange has repeatedly requested that the questioning take place over the phone or in London as per common practice, to avoid traveling to Sweden where he fears he risks extradition to the US. Sweden has also repeatedly refused to give assurances regarding possible extradition.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Wednesday May 13 2015, @04:20AM

    by vux984 (5045) on Wednesday May 13 2015, @04:20AM (#182230)

    Apparently you misunderstand goals of all governments.

    The 'government' doesn't have goals any more than 'evolution' does. Both only move according to things at the individual scale and it's only an illusion when either appears to work with concerted purpose, but the 'government' is no more interested in Assange than 'evolution' is in giving fish lungs to breath on land. If you stop anthropomorphizing you'll understand them better.

    He will be captured when he has to leave.

    Or he won't be. Or statutes of limitations will have run out mooting the entire thing.

    Typically it's nothing but the latest escapades of some celebrities.

    That sounds like Assange to alot of people.

    It requires independent journalists. Not many of those remain in the USA.

    More left than you think. Perhaps not among the talking heads on TV... but then the new generation isn't much listening to them anyway.

     

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  • (Score: 1) by tftp on Wednesday May 13 2015, @04:45AM

    by tftp (806) on Wednesday May 13 2015, @04:45AM (#182236) Homepage

    The 'government' doesn't have goals any more than 'evolution' does. Both only move according to things at the individual scale and it's only an illusion when either appears to work with concerted purpose, but the 'government' is no more interested in Assange than 'evolution' is in giving fish lungs to breath on land. If you stop anthropomorphizing you'll understand them better.

    You seem to be of opinion that government workers make their own, individual decisions without ever concerning themselves with needs, wants and actions of others. If so then yes, such a government would be in a Brownian motion.

    However in practice all governments are formed from the top (the elected leader) down to some significant positions with political appointees. Everyone in such a government obeys orders of the leader - or gets fired. Workers below the appointee level have more freedom, as they are not automatically replaced with each change of the government - but they have no freedom to act independently; they act as the appointee tells them to act. If they don't, they get punished, up to and including being fired. Governments are usually quite rigid structures; they have to be, otherwise the elected official couldn't run them.

    Or statutes of limitations will have run out mooting the entire thing.

    Perhaps - it depends on laws of Sweden. In the USA, as an example, "34 states and Washington, DC, have statutes of limitations on filing rape or sexual-assault charges, ranging from 3 to 30 years." (link [motherjones.com]). And he doesn't even know what the prosecution is going to accuse him of. Here is an interesting tidbit [wikipedia.org]:

    The statute of limitations is ten years for rape and five years for sexual molestation. However, he was häktad on November 19, 2010, which means that he can be charged even after more than ten years.Sjö (talk) 16:46, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

    I hope he has a real lawyer.