Equadorian Holiday for Julian?
Looks like our good “friend” Julian Assange has tired of British food and weather, and has decided to seek out a different climate. He’s applied for political asylum in Ecuador. Seems his native Australia wouldn’t lift a finger to help him out of his little European legal jam.
Personally, I kinda hope he gets what he’s asking for – then pisses off the Ecuadorian government. Ecuadorian laws are rather . . . different. In Ecuador you can be sent to jail for 2 years for insulting the President, and for 3 months for insulting other government officials. I’m thinking that it would be only a matter of time before Assange did exactly that.
I also think a couple of years in an Ecuadorian jail would do him a world of good. If he survived, of course.
Well, OK – not really. Assange is IMO such an ass he’s probably beyond help as this point. But seeing him spend a couple of years in a South American jail would do me a world of good. (smile)
Category: Legal, Pointless blather, Shitbags, Terror War
Hopefully he’ll meet his Maker there.
@1 Nah, let’s hope he goes in the other direction.
Yep. Was wondering when his request was publicised who would object to his change of venue.
(Another self-inflicted soap opera?)
He’ll fit right in with the FARC guerrillas that Ecuador is harboring.
The arrsers had a thread on this the other day. The way it is being spun is that Assange is making a lot of noise about being afraid of being extradited here where he might face the death penalty(never mind that he hasn’t been indicted here or that he couldn’t be extradited from Sweden if the death penalty was in play or that we have an extradition treaty with Ecuador). The truth is that it looks more and more like he is afraid of being convicted by the Swedes and he is afraid of doing time there. Yes, our boy Julian is afraid of Swedish “college dorm” jail.
Assange is evil, but he isn’t stupid. South America is still a place where money (paid to the right people) can buy security. Assange has enough money to buy that security.
Dunno, PintoNag. Latin America is also a place where pissing off the wrong guy can get you lost in jail for a lonoooong time. He’d best be damned careful if/when he gets down there.
Ask Natalie Holloway’s killer how he likes Peruvian prison.
Your right, Hondo, and that’s where Assange’s personality disorders may do us a service. When Nazis retired into South American countries, they paid the right folks and took up stamp collecting or something. They kept their heads down and their mouths shut, and were able to live out their lives peacefully.
I don’t Assange can manage that, and that’s what will buy him a machete across his pasty white face. I hope.
“…don’t think Assange…” Sorry. Fingers ahead of brain.
#8 & 9 – It’s okay, drink more coffee.
I’m wondering if there is anywhere in the world this guy would really be safe. Most countries want to lock him away for a very long time, and those that don’t wouldn’t really be able to protect him from those that want some form of revenge.
How long, if he is able to get the asylum, until he wakes up with an RPG shoved up his ass and a plastic (insert country that hates him here) flag staring him in the face sitting on enough explosives to adequately destroy a small bunker?
Think #5 is dead on – Assange is not subject to US penalties for treason, and judging by most of the recent failed US prosecutions for charges like drug use, perjury, stock market manipulation etc. he’s probably pretty safe even if he was extradited. So about the only thing he really needs to fear is sharing a cell with a two meter amateur proctologist named Lars.