Reply to: Assange to Surrender

[LondonManc]

I think the worry of the Electric Chair or Lethal injection made the room preferable.

Sorry on this one I suspect the conspiracy theories have some truth.

Safe to say that he'll be Clinton's first target if she's elected.

[vetran]

Decides to stay out of a one-room cell. By staying in a one-room apartment. Nice.

I think the worry of the Electric Chair or Lethal injection made the room preferable.

Sorry on this one I suspect the conspiracy theories have some truth.

[LondonManc]

Decides to stay out of a one-room cell. By staying in a one-room apartment. Nice.

Safe from drones though innit.

[BrilloPad]

Decides to stay out of a one-room cell. By staying in a one-room apartment. Nice.

[LondonManc]

Depends on who is the next US president.

Correct. One person who is without a doubt safer with Trump as president.

[SueEllen]

... rape because no condom?

These are Swedish laws not those of the legal jurisdictions in the UK.

In some countries men still can't rape their wives even in circumstances where the couple are clearly no longer together.

[Paddy]

"I was so proud, to get the coolest man in the world into bed, and to stay in my apartment.”

... rape because no condom?

[SueEllen]

Perhaps until he's finished being of use to the Ecuadorians?

Depends on who is the next US president.

[LondonManc]

Julian Assange: WikiLeaks founder to be questioned at Ecuadorian embassy over rape allegation | London Evening Standard

And it goes on.......

Will he live there forever ?

Perhaps until he's finished being of use to the Ecuadorians?

[saptastic]

Julian Assange: WikiLeaks founder to be questioned at Ecuadorian embassy over rape allegation | London Evening Standard

And it goes on.......

Will he live there forever ?

[vetran]

It's rather convenient in a Blakes 7 kind of way, the timing was impeccable if you wanted to discredit Wikileaks

this does rather fit the bill. However shacking up with one woman & then knobbing her mate is unlikely to end well. Maybe someone should of told him?

He does seem like an unpleasant fellow and a lot of pratt.

[EternalOptimist]

Perhaps if he leaves he's afraid he might go for a walk in the woods and kill himself

It would be easy to blame his death on depression

I find it very easy to believe that Julian may have abused and assaulted those two women.
I find it equally easy to believe that the US want to pin him up like a butterfly. as a warning to the others

I dont know where the truth lies and I doubt very much that I ever will

[MicrosoftBob]

If the Guardian is to be believed, then the rape allegations do sound fairly weak. However, that is the purpose of courts, right? You face your accusers and the jury decides whether you are guilty or not based on the evidence. Running away and blaming a global conspiracy doesn't do your case any good.

10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange | Media | The Guardian

Perhaps if he leaves he's afraid he might go for a walk in the woods and kill himself

It would be easy to blame his death on depression

[MicrosoftBob]

Possibly because such a presumption is completely groundless and mistaken?

It's rather convenient in a Blakes 7 kind of way, the timing was impeccable if you wanted to discredit Wikileaks

[NickFitz]

Despite him being a complete knob jockey, if as it's presumed the charges have been trumped up at the instigation of governments he has annoyed (rather a long list) how can he have a fair trial when it seems like the justice system itself is on trial

Possibly because such a presumption is completely groundless and mistaken?