Assange - foreign office threaten to arrest him

[Empusa]

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They are talking about revoking the Ecuadorian embassy's diplomatic immunity in order to enter the embassy.

Wonder if they will actually do so?

Quite.

And breathe....

You said... According to pedia he was convicted in 1996 in Oz and paid reparation and a good behaviour bond. Not so bad.

Read it yourself in your own post. Now I know I may get a posters name confused once in a while but not on this occasion.

Yes I posted that. And your point is, before you explode?

LePan are you resorting to patronising comments aimed at Novack because you have nothing left? I was always taught that that was a sign of a weak mind.

No, not at all Kladd. I hadn't quoted a passage from pedia, I relayed info as presenting in a table. Nothing more or less than that. N. wishes to imply I was being dishonest. Her extended sentence without any break prompted the 'before you explde' thing.

Pan, Novack said he was convicted. Empusa said he was imprisoned but later corrected herself. It did seen like your basic fact right comment was directed at Novack, but it might not have been meant that way.

Lets not let this get derailed away from discussing the convicted criminal and alleged serial rapist Assange.

This is unduly messy, and a bit tangential! I know Empusa said he had done time. I looked it up and found he hadn't - he was given a financial penalty - I reported that fact, not Empusa fwiw. And it certainly wasn't directed at anyone -
just a finding.
N. then went on (lord knows why) to imply I was being dishonest, when Iwas being nothing of the sort.
I'll pop off now. This isn't worth the effort, is it?

One thing that stands out to me is that Julian Assange applied for Swedish residency in 2010. A couple of months before the US cables were published on Wikileaks, when plenty of other stuff had already been put up and he was already preparing to publish the rest.

Sweden's extradition treaty with the US is the same now as it was then.

If Sweden was a safe home then, why is it such a dangerous place now?

Yeah, i don't understand that either, Hester.

Why don't they just set the fire alarms off at the embassy? Couple of smoke bombs for effect. He'd be out like a flash :)

Ooh, nice Clytaemnestra. Wonder if William Hague has got an OFRS?

Possible Information Security Breach: JA could be a mumsnetter, so that plan is a bit screwed.

Maybe Mumsnet could arrange an online chat with Assange? I'm sure he has plenty of time to kill.

But do you think William Hague is a Mumsnetter, Pan ?

Ha!, Doc.

Online chat would be a real coup.

A real fire then? ;)

Seriously just ignore him. Stick a couple of those cardboard cutout policemen you get in Sainsburys round the exits and ignore him.

He'll be out in a week or so as he can't bear the idea of not getting any attention.

I thought today that Assange looks like a younger William Hague, more hair obviously.

They should just lob a tin of through the window. That'll clear the building.

I tend to agree with Xenia that this extradition treaty we've got with the US is very worrying-one-sded and with insufficient safeguards. I also agree with her that freedom of speech and of the press is important. I still think Assange should be sent to Sweden.

US/UK . Only topic about which I wrote to my MP before they had their recent commons debate on it. However despite their promises i think the Tories have decided to do nothing about it. The problem is you are locked up for years and forced to plea bargain if you go over there - so it is not the same justice system at all and because you are foreign you are not given bail where you would be here so it is not fair at all.

Also we were conned into accepting it because it was an anti terrorist measure just as we are conned into censorship laws "to protect the children" and women like lambs to the slaughter follow hook line and sinker the party line and let more and more of our freedoms be eroded on "child protection" grounds.

He's loving the attention. Which other asylum seeker gets this much attention? Good on ecuador for standing up to britain. Seems to me like UK is caught in the middle of something that has nothing to do with and can't handle. However I'm not necessarily thinking these sexual abuse charges are fraudulent and wonder what these women are thinking now with this massive assange adoring lobby. I'd like to see him questioned about the allegations so that charges can either be made or the investigation dropped completely.

Perhaps we need a few FCO SOS? I'm not sure william hague can really hack (scuse pun) this situation.

vivalebeaver yes let's ask him what his favourite biscuit is.

ooh ooh. Got one.

Custod(y) Creams.