tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post4491947940707720753..comments2024-03-27T12:56:38.992-07:00Comments on The Skeptical Bureaucrat: Wiki-WarrantTSBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-43675629001439010602010-12-01T13:12:29.833-08:002010-12-01T13:12:29.833-08:00Probably. But given the 'here it is, now it i...Probably. But given the 'here it is, now it isn't, back again' nature of the charges, the idea that some pressure is being brought to be some higher authority, I wouldn't be shocked by that either.Rob Pughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18355643989278053777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-75748712159327572972010-12-01T11:47:23.266-08:002010-12-01T11:47:23.266-08:00Maybe it's a complicated conspiracy by the USG...Maybe it's a complicated conspiracy by the USG to retaliate against Assange, but I suspect his legal problems are more likely of a gonadal simplicity.TSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-18061055947526277882010-12-01T09:46:17.651-08:002010-12-01T09:46:17.651-08:00"It would have been much smarter for Assange ..."It would have been much smarter for Assange to do a voluntary interview and try to settle the matter."<br /><br />He submitted for an interview on Aug 31 and was interrogated. Additionally, he's made himself available for further interview, not being in country anymore, at the Swedish embassy or Scotland Yard or via video link "and that all of these offers have been flatly refused by a prosecutor..."<br /><br />I can't speak to the man's guilt or innocence about anything. But find the timing of the matter highly suspicious. 40 years after Watergate, people act as if a setup job by people in government is a philosophical impossibility.Rob Pughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18355643989278053777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-14137657033596135862010-12-01T08:20:15.818-08:002010-12-01T08:20:15.818-08:00As best I can tell, there really are serious charg...As best I can tell, there really are serious charges against Assange stemming from multiple incidents, and the prosecution has been forced, after several weeks of non-response to their request for a voluntary interview, to issue a warrant. <br /><br />If I understand the charges correctly, they sound much worse in English translation, using words like "rape" and "coercion", than they actually are. They amount to successfully persuading two groupies to have consensual but misguided sex with him, and of refusing to wear a condom for the entire duration of a sex act. The specific charges seem to be fluctuating between rape and molestation, and that back-and-forth is reported as the rape charges being on and off and then on again.<br /><br />It would have been much smarter for Assange to do a voluntary interview and try to settle the matter. With this warrant hanging over him, he won't be able to move freely from country to country, as he seems to like doing.TSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-26083350000103508392010-12-01T06:50:28.238-08:002010-12-01T06:50:28.238-08:00For those playing the Julian Assange sex crime Bin...For those playing the Julian Assange sex crime Bingo home game - first it existed. Then it didn't. Then they were going to arrest him. Then all charges are dropped. Now there's an Interpol notice. Two days after the release of massive batch of cables. I'll take the center square, to block, Alex.<br /><br />Nothing to see here & nothing untowards. Move along. Though I am shocked - shocked! - to learn gambling was taking place here.Rob Pughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18355643989278053777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-83652750654175003492010-12-01T06:06:55.632-08:002010-12-01T06:06:55.632-08:00Irony of ironies, the Swedish prosecutor who is ha...Irony of ironies, the Swedish prosecutor who is handling this case is herself being investigated by another Swedish government body for violating Assange's right to privacy by leaking inofrmation to the press.TSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-61888866693983876482010-11-30T23:33:37.664-08:002010-11-30T23:33:37.664-08:00I am Jack's utter lack of surprise.
"Wil...I am Jack's utter lack of surprise.<br /><br />"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"Rob Pughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18355643989278053777noreply@blogger.com