[governance] Julian Assange extradition: Ecuador 'willing to co-operate' with Britain

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

Diplomatic "indignity" is what we're left with just now. Sad situation
indeed.

What would open their eyes?  (not suggesting anything here) A petition?
Signature campaign? Protest march? "Satyagraha" movement? riots?

-C

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:

> And the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Immunity be damned (they UK
> threated to storm foreign territory, which is what an embassy is)? Which
> certainly has implications for faith in American Exceptionalism as a basis
> for CIR control.
>
> So I guess the taking of American hostages in Iran at the time of the
> overthrow of the American approved despot (the Shah) in the 1970s would be
> ok, retrospectively?
>
> Funny, he skipped bail but is willing to fulfil the claims for questioning
> on terms that do not expose him to the threat of extradition. Extradition
> to the US may involve treatment like Bradley Manning has received in US
> prison - long periods of solitary confinement. This kind of treatment is
> against the EU Bill of Rights, the findings of the UN Special Rapporteur on
> Torture and regarded as unlawful (i.e. cruel and degrading punishment) even
> by the New York Bar Association.
>
> You see, if I don't like your principles on this matter, I have others...
> so for me it is completely specious to start of irrespective of extradition
> threat... its kinda like saying: irrespective of the REAL threat of torture
> and/or cruel and degrading punishment... which as you can surmise from my
> position is a non starter . . .
>
> ... and I will as always simply remain amazed at the robustness of
> discussion on this list . . . which is refreshing for its candour, of which
> we can all freely take part...
>
>
>
> On 2012/08/20 07:53 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> In message <502F5826.4000506 at gmail.com>, at 10:53:58 on Sat, 18 Aug
>> 2012, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> writes
>>
>>  The police presence, it added, had risen from two or three to around 50,
>>> with officers on the embassy's fire escape and at every window.
>>>
>>
>> I haven't been following the main thread so apologies if this is a
>> repeat: Irrespective of any threat to extradite him, let alone the
>> Wikileaks episode, Assange is a plain and simple fugitive from a UK court
>> (he's skipped bail).
>>
>> The British Police would be roundly criticised if they let him escape
>> through a back window in the middle of the night and make off across Hyde
>> Park.
>>
>
>
>
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