Assange - What A Farce!

[davebro3]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-69145409

I feel as though the UK has been suckered into this long running saga only to have a farcical outcome. "Oh well, just let him go."

Why did we even bother holding him at all? Defies belief.

[drmorgans]

 

Has it been revealed what charge he has agreed to plead guilty to?

 

[davebro3]

being a pain in the backside?😈

[sandyRoe]

Forced to recant and admit a 'crime', he might justly say, as Galilei did: and yet it does move.

[drmorgans]

 

So he gets to play Happy Families in Oz.

 

[ToraToraTora]

Biden doesn't want the agro, election coming up. Next!

[douglas9401]

He may yet vanish forever having gone night-swimming in the ocean.

[youngmafbog]

We ended up involved because we had little choice due to agreements.  The outcome will have been negotiated between his brief and the USA so again we were just stuck in the middle.

I think both TTT and Douglas have valid points, but who knows maybe he will just ride off into the sunset in the outback never to be seen again.

[ToraToraTora]

the septics don't forgive and forget, He'll have an "accident" at some point.

[youngmafbog]

SAme with all countries TTT.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is very naive.

[Hymie]

The Americans were always going to seek a face-saving solution to this debacle – the last thing they would want to be revealed in an open court is their government’s criminal actions.

[Peter Pedant]

The Americans were always going to seek a face-saving solution to this debacle 

o god who are the septics for chrissakes? - "foo da septics fing fong daddle, they do!"

Mrs Assange was good on R4 - the fluffy pressenter completely at sea over this. The rape charge has been dropped and so under a treaty of extradition he was going to go to America  -  chop ! chop!

There were appeals over whether there wd be a fair trial in the Land of the Free - as Trump had given an opinion - which might influence a judge considering he had appointed them all.

THEN it worked out ( as Mrs Assange averred, and Fluffy went 'errrrk!') The high court in London ( yes london reader) was gonna  hear evidence on whether a first amendment defence ( yes in the land of the free reader) wd get up and run.

and they scrambled for a negotiated solution

( giving foo to Trumps allegation/insistence tht the DoJ in America is heavily politicised)

[Peter Pedant]

.the septics don't forgive and forget, - -  foo danga foo danga!

 

he might justly say, as Galilei did: and yet it does move.

eppur si muove - just to bring a bit of old forrin into the discussion. - I suppose the Latin may be " ita movet, miser galile!" -  "miser" cos he gonna fry if he doan say what Popey at the time say.

[sandyRoe]

The Americans will clutch at the straw of his guilty plea.

But what else could he do?

[youngmafbog]

Well if you poke the Bear dont be surprised when it bites back.

What he should have done is redact names from the list so not putting peoples lives in danger(particualry in Afghanistan) and the headed straight for a friendly country, perhaps bunk up with Snowdon.

But no, his ego got the better of him and we are where we are.

[Peter Pedant]

I wonder if he wd do the same again today

He has spent around 20y in a slammer of some sort innit?

[fender62]

any chance of a refund to the tax payer for prison time and legal fee's i wonder how much the total bill is.

[Peter Pedant]

how does a refund to the tax payer work if someone has been on remand for 15 y ? ( twenty was too high I learn from R4)

I know this is AB. - I wouldda thought - "sunk costs no rebate" applies

[davebro3]

^^^^^ totally incomprehensible as usual....

[Peter Pedant]

Even the journos who nothing about it are saying it shows the american justice system (*) is heavily politicised - which is not to the public's advantage.

R4 tonight. The freedom of speech defence only works for certain charges, and never for espionage 

and everyone suddenly realised that

so they settled - - - sort of logic you get on AB

[Ellipsis]

Think how much we're saving from now on ...