Assange at Ecuadorian embassy
According to the New Zealand Herald, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino proposed on Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be Ecuador’s embassy in Stockholm. In this scenario, Assange would remain under Ecuadorian protection while undergoing questioning about sexual assault allegations. Patino also hinted to “new” developments in the Swedish case, stating “several elements of proof have been dismissed.”
At the moment, the governments of Britain and Ecuador are at an impasse. Despite granting him diplomatic immunity, Ecuadorian authorities can’t transport him out of the country, owing to a threat by British authorities to arrest him if he steps foot outside the embassy. According to the Business Recorder, British and Swedish officials have refused to comment on the proposal .
Assange took shelter in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in June after exhausting all appeals against extradition from Britain to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations. His biggest fear is that Sweden will hand him over to the US, where he could face prosecution over the release of a vast cache of leaked Iraq and Afghanistan war reports and diplomatic cables.
According to Andrew Kreig, Director of the Justice Integrity Report, Wikileaks reported back in February on hacked emails they obtained from Stratfor, a Texas political intelligence company with ties to Karl Rove. The cables discussed a secret federal indictment against Assange.
Kreig’s article also provides interesting background on various Swedish civil servants with CIA credentials, as well as Rove’s links to Swedish officials pursuing Assange’s extradition.
As Kreig writes in The Huffington Post, Rove began advising Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt – referred to as the Ronald Reagan of Europe – in 2008.
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1. Grab ankles
2. Kiss ass goodbye
(and, by his own admission, it sounds like he did get a little aggressive with those ladies. I don't think any of it elevates to the level of a crime, but I wouldn't want to date him. Obviously, that's all a red herring...just sayin')
According to Kreig, Rove has helped the Swedish media paint Assange as a total monster. He's guilty of having sex without a condom with one woman and entering the other when she was half asleep. Neither woman wants her entire personal life dragged out in the public arena to press the charges. Their only intention in going to the police was to require him to be tested for STDs.
One must applaud Ecuador for its honourable, though likely to be expensive, stand against the Amerikan mis-use of law to persecute those who anger it.
The US is now become the Scientology of nations; using law to punish those who refuse to bow to its dictates.
How laughable it is that a colossus that proclaims itself "the policeman of the world" can be so shaken by a spoonful of truth about its slimy, underhanded activities.
Three cheers for Julian Assange and double that for courageous Ecuador!!
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Very apt, Sky, your comparison between the American justice system and Scientology. I had a friend who got bilked out of a $7,000 divorce settlement by them. This was 30 years ago, when that was still a major chunk of change.
I suspect the sex charges are greatly overblown, Zanelle, which is why he and the Ecuadorian foreign minister propose that he return to Sweden to complete the investigation.