Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in British jail for skipping bail

[Chomper Higgot]

3 hours ago, SweetStickyRice said:

I find some of the above comments as herd mentality. Judge Deborah Taylor should be ashamed of herself. The UK and Sweden are the USA's lapdogs. Freedom of speech is slowly being taken away from us. 

Herd mentality you say.

 

I guess that’s you trying to win folk over with your natural charm.

 

 

 

[Rocking Robert]

How about those poor girls he raped

[fullcave]

2 hours ago, simple1 said:

Considering he was held at a high security prison, likely serve time in a protection unit.

I believe the term solitary confinement is the correct term. 

[Pedrogaz]

I cannot believe the comment here. What has Assange done that has so offended you? He exposes government's that commit crimes. What is wrong with that? What the US and UK are doing is immoral and disgusting.

[bluejets]

14 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

She said that it had cost taxpayers 16 million pounds ($21 million) to ensure that Assange was arrested when he left the embassy.

Expensive police force they have in the UK.

[SweetStickyRice]

"Chomper Higgot" Win whom over? Your comment is irrelevant.

[simple1]

1 hour ago, fullcave said:

I believe the term solitary confinement is the correct term. 

Nope

[Chomper Higgot]

19 minutes ago, SweetStickyRice said:

"Chomper Higgot" Win whom over? Your comment is irrelevant.

And your charm offensive isn’t working.

 

Assange is at last facing the justice he spent 7 of the best years of his life in a futile attempt to avoid.

 

He’s not going anywhere while his extradition hearings proceed before open courts of law and he is afforded the rights to appeal up to and including to the European Court of Human Rights.

 

If extradited to the US he will be tried in an open court of law where he will have the opportunity to argue his First Amendment rights.

 

And in the interim he and we will get to learn what charges Mueller laid against him.

 

What we won’t see is any evidence of his ridiculous claims that he faces torture or internment in Gitmo.

 

He’ll have to rely on such as yourself to keep those hogwash claims going.

[simple1]

1 hour ago, Pedrogaz said:

I cannot believe the comment here. What has Assange done that has so offended you? He exposes government's that commit crimes. What is wrong with that? What the US and UK are doing is immoral and disgusting.

The guy jumped bail which is a criminal offence in the UK, usually 12 months jail, to avoid facing sexual criminal charges in Sweden. Whilst on bail he had plenty of time to negotiate with Swedish govt not to be extradited to the US if he did jail time in Sweden. Got to admit very likely to have been extradited to US by Oz govt if he were deported by the Swedes to his home country, which one assumes UK govt will now do after completing his sentence.

[RuamRudy]

2 hours ago, Rocking Robert said:

How about those poor girls he raped

Is innocent until proven guilty no longer a legal tenet?

[evadgib]

10 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Is innocent until proven guilty no longer a legal tenet?

Not on Thaivisa! ????

Edited May 2, 2019 by evadgib

[BE HAPPY]

how much did this man cost the British tax payer,he is leach,he is a scum bag,

[newatthis]

22 minutes ago, BE HAPPY said:

how much did this man cost the British tax payer,he is leach,he is a scum bag,

I'm sure that there are a lot on social welfarre who are no better.

[SweetStickyRice]

"Chomper Higgot" Charm offensive? You didn't have to write all that. It's just your conclusion stemming from all the fake news you read and watch. Like sheep - herd mentality. 

[watcharacters]

14 hours ago, Basil B said:

14 hours ago, mauGR1 said:

Another nail in the coffin of investigative journalism.

You are insulting real journalists...

 

 

.. and you Basil are simply wrong.

 

 

[dick dasterdly]

So Assange has received a 50 week sentance for jumping bail on a Swedish charge that no longer exists....

 

It is of course ridiculous that the brit. govt. decided to waste so much money hounding him - and then had the audacity to blame Assange for them wasting so much money!

 

But I'm sure Assange is more concerned about the fact that he will undoubtedly be shortly extradited to the US.....

[Basil B]

17 minutes ago, dick dasterdly said:

So Assange has received a 50 week sentance for jumping bail on a Swedish charge that no longer exists....

 

It is of course ridiculous that the brit. govt. decided to waste so much money hounding him - and then had the audacity to blame Assange for them wasting so much money!

 

But I'm sure Assange is more concerned about the fact that he will undoubtedly be shortly extradited to the US.....

Well they wasted a lot more money on Brexit...

[balo]

I'm tired of this man, release him into the wild, so he can settle down with a family and kids and never be heard from again . 

 

[dick dasterdly]

16 minutes ago, Basil B said:

Well they wasted a lot more money on Brexit...

Of course there will always try to turn this important issue regarding the right to tell people the truth about what are govts. are 'up to' - into a brexit issue....

[dick dasterdly]

Chomper Higgot - why are you confused by my above post?

[Basil B]

51 minutes ago, dick dasterdly said:

So Assange has received a 50 week sentance for jumping bail on a Swedish charge that no longer exists....

 

It is of course ridiculous that the brit. govt. decided to waste so much money hounding him - and then had the audacity to blame Assange for them wasting so much money!

 

But I'm sure Assange is more concerned about the fact that he will undoubtedly be shortly extradited to the US.....

So I assume you feel May was wrong to sack Gavin Williamson for leaking details of a National Security Council Meeting... 

[atyclb]

 

assange parallels ??

 

Mason,(connery) a 60-year-old British national imprisoned without charges for three decades

he was a British SAS Captain who stole a microfilm containing details of the United States' most closely guarded secrets, refusing to give it up when captured because he knew he would be killed if he did.

 

supposedly just fiction

[mauGR1]

59 minutes ago, Paul Catton said:

If it looks and smells of being like a witch-hunt, odds are it is.

 

I have the same impression, that's non going down very well with the public opinion.

 

 

[yogi100]

4 hours ago, bluejets said:

Expensive police force they have in the UK.

 

Bang on. Yet they can't stop London being the knife crime and murder capital of Europe.

 

It's a shame the same amount of effort cannot be put into stopping immigrant street crime in London that has been put into hounding a man who publicised a US helicopter machine gunning to death Iraqi civilians going about their business in their own country.

 

The rape charges were dropped and were no more than a sprat to catch a mackerel.

 

Assange should get a medal instead of being locked up.

[yogi100]

2 hours ago, BE HAPPY said:

how much did this man cost the British tax payer,he is leach,he is a scum bag,

He did not make them spend it. The politicians did. Had they left him alone he'd have come out in his own time. He was hardly a danger to the public was he?

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, yogi100 said:

He did not make them spend it. The politicians did. Had they left him alone he'd have come out in his own time. He was hardly a danger to the public was he?

Has it occurred to you that Assange detained himself, and that while he was wasting seven of the best years of his life in his futile attempt to evade justice it was Assange and only Assange preventing him from leaving the Ecuadorian Embassy.

 

Complex explanation = International conspiracy involving the US, UK, Sweden, Ecuador and trials/judgements in open courts of law.

 

Simple explanation = Assange is a sniveling coward.

[Guest Jerry787]

20 hours ago, daboyz1 said:

Too bad it's not 50 years.

for what ??? for being a honest journalist and show to the world what US and Blackwater mercenaries where doing ? 

[Guest Jerry787]

50 weeks to escape bail for a crime not committed and an extradition request void due that there was no any crime committed !!

shame on the judge, shame on british false justice !

[Chomper Higgot]

3 minutes ago, Jerry787 said:

50 weeks to escape bail for a crime not committed and an extradition request void due that there was no any crime committed !!

shame on the judge, shame on british false justice !

Shame on your powers of comprehension and understanding of the law.

[Chomper Higgot]

2 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

Chomper Higgot - why are you confused by my above post?

I’m more amused than confused.

 

Jumping bail is s crime in and of itself.

Evading arrest until a crime passes its statute of limitations is not an argument that the crime was not committed or an argument of innocence.

 

But I agree, Assange is undoubtedly very concerned that he will now almost certainly be extradited to the US.