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[jimi_dini]

"Possible prosecution" does not equal "extradition request", much less "conspiracy to bring him to Sweden to thereafter be extradited to the US illegally".

Giving out an extradition request NOW would be pretty stupid, even for common US behaviour.

I find it pretty fascinating that UK never had issues not extraditing pinochet for ages, but this time they even threaten to raid a foreign embassy, because of sexual assault accusations. Oh well.

You think the Taliban and Al Qaeda have been fighting a fair fight back? At least we have some "rules of engagement".. they have none. Of course the US is not perfect, who the fuck ever claimed we were?

US didn't fight Taliban or Al Qaeda in Iraq - where the video took place. Abu Ghraib was also not in Afghanistan. And even Afghanistan is not equal Taliban or Al Qaeda.
And what you are saying is that acting like terrorists is okay, if you fight terrorists somewhere in the world, right?

What kind of leverage does the USA have over a "liberal/democratic/left" country like Sweden, for its government to break with democratic procedures and judicial control, potentially losing a big portion of its young voters, to illegal extradite someone like Assange, a big public figure with a lot of goodwill (unlike say some Al-Qaida suspect)?

Losing their young voters? You got to be pretty damn young, otherwise you would have noticed that governments normally give a fuck about their own people unless it's the upper x percent. Voters have also no long-term memory, so it wouldn't matter anyway. Well, maybe there would be a few small demonstrations like the ones for Manning and the government would laugh about those. Let's look at the result of the anti-war demonstrations for Iraq. Did they matter? Did they change anything? Of course not, otherwise demonstrations would not be allowed. And you really think that extraditing ONE man, that was not even born in Sweden and is already a rapist in the eye of the public, would make a larger impact than those? You got to be kidding.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Oh hell no. It is too early in the morning for me to feel like this. Spoiler tagged to protect the children, and so this thread doesn't go off the rails.

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I am too tired this kind of shit. And I work too damn hard for this type of bullshit. I am NOT the nigga. And I do not get talked to like that, over the Internet or otherwise. Especially not by a bitch-assed, pock-filled conspiracy theory "the boogie man is a real!" dogfucker . If you want to talk to me like that you take that shit to the private messages, okay?

Otherwise, you do have other options. You either don't come at me like that at all, or you can take your stank, prick ass and that's stick you've got stuck in it and plant yourself somewhere else. If you don't, I will be happy to pull that stick out for you. And I will go nice and slow, just the way I like it. Do you understand?

Now I don't have a problem with what you said, just the way you said it.

Moving on. . .

 

[NervousXtian]

And what you are saying is that acting like terrorists is okay, if you fight terrorists somewhere in the world, right?

I didn't say that at all... that's you putting words not into my mouth.

I said we are not perfect, but at least we have rules of engagement, which is a helluva lot more than our enemy has.

If you think 1 edited video removed of context makes us equal to terrorists that's your problem, and shows your agenda.