What do you think of wikileaks?

[Kasz216]

badgenome said:

Kasz216 said:

Except you know.   Sweden DID explicity assure this.

"Sweden does not extradite individuals who risk facing the death penalty," a Swedish Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said, implicitly referring to the possibility Assange could be charged with crimes eligible for the death penalty in the United States, with whom it has an extradition agreement.

Any claims to the contrary are pure bull.

Well, that's implicit, not explicit.

And that's not really an assurance that he wouldn't be extradited to the US at all. It just means that Sweden would first want assurances that he wouldn't face the death penalty - which he wouldn't in all likelihood, anyway.

If they assured it in the press, I'm sure they would personally, even though the whole thing is a joke anyway.

Afterall the UK-US extradition treaty is heavily favors the US in pretty much getting anyone in Britian they want.

While Sweden actually has plenty of room to refuse.

Between the UK and Sweeden, Assange is safer from the US in Sweeden.

He just stayed in the UK because he had rich friends there and it's safer to avoid charges of rape.

And now he's asking for asylum from one of the countries in the world where there is about ZERO freedom and speech and trasnperancy?

Why?  He knows they have a problem with the UK, and he can play them off the UK, because they would love to thumb their nose at the UK at about anything right now.

It's all a pure bs smoke trail of a guy trying to avoid rape charges.