Dear Roland,<div>Thank you for "the still, small voice of calm".</div><div>I read the article at the link and also followed several of the links within that article, including the one to the article by Felicity Gerrity discussing the legal definition of rape. </div>
<div>I am forcefully reminded of a quotation from Robert Bolt's play "A Man for All Seasons" </div><div><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/quotes">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/quotes</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><b style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714874/" style="color:rgb(112,87,157)">William Roper</a></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<b style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006890/" style="color:rgb(112,87,157)">Sir Thomas More</a></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<b style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714874/" style="color:rgb(112,87,157)">William Roper</a></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that! </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<b style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006890/" style="color:rgb(112,87,157)">Sir Thomas More</a></b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake! </span></div>
<div> </div><div>The process of law is what should protect all of us. Of course, demonstrably, it did not manage to protect Sir Thomas More, but he only became vulnerable when the law and its processes were broken and abused.</div>
<div>And the debate certainly clarifies the relevance of this thread to "Internet governance" because this is how the principles of internet governance are being established. We are reminded of the need to keep searching for the "hard" information underneath, rather than allow ourselves to be distracted by the froth and bubbles on the surface.</div>
<div>Deirdre</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 August 2012 06:35, Roland Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland@internetpolicyagency.com" target="_blank">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In message <<a href="mailto:kFngzIdDI7MQFAfr@internetpolicyagency.com">kFngzIdDI7MQFAfr@internetpolicyagency.com</a>>, at 17:06:27 on<br>
Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Roland Perry <<a href="mailto:roland@internetpolicyagency.com">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>> writes<br>
<div class="im">>>And how do you read the former Stockholm Chief District prosecutor<br>
>>Sven-Erik Alhem views, who testified that the decision to extradite<br>
>>Assange is ?unreasonable and unprofessional, as well as unfair and<br>
>>disproportionate.?? As he could be questioned in the UK<br>
><br>
>A different view from a different lawyer.<br>
<br>
</div>A good article here, which explains the "where he can be interviewed"<br>
thing, plus the ongoing "zombie facts" issue which afflicts this case:<br>
<br>
<<a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-
myths-about-assange-extradition" target="_blank">http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-<br>
myths-about-assange-extradition</a>><br>
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