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

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Jonathan, two obvious points here: one is the way some countries treat
children as adults. None of these two cases would be legally possible in
Brazil, for example (although of course violence against children by
police and society are frequently committed, illegally in all cases).
The other is the recurring theme of double standards by "developed
democracies".

--c.a.

On 08/20/2012 11:44 PM, jonathan at jcave.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
> Downloading does not carry the death penalty. But IP law and blasphemy law are being used to send messages to the communities to which those arrested belong as much as (if not more than) to punish crime. I have seen considerable shock and contempt in the UK press for such downloading arrests, and for e.g. US demands for extradition of the UK hacker and Asperger's victim Gary McKinnon. 
> 
> Not sure I see the point you are making. Could you clarify? Is it about press coverage? It doesn't seem to be law and free speech; blasphemy laws in general may raise free speech issues but burning a stack of documents allegedly containing pages from the Qu'ran does not; nor does downloading (though I suppose hosting material in violation of IPR might). Cheers, J. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca>
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> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:38:01 
> To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
> Reply-To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org,"Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca>
> Subject: Re: [governance] Julian Assange extradition: Ecuador 'willing to
>  co-operate' with Britain
> 
> And right now I listen to CNN's anchor "horrified" because a Pakistani
> child (11-year old) has been arrested for blasphemy. This is indeed
> brutal, but I've never seen an American anchor horrified when the
> Americans arrest kids for downloading music.
> 
> E la nave va...
> 
> --c.a.
> 
> 

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