Posted: Feb 12, 2016 11:43 pm
GrahamH wrote:See byrons quote and how it accords with the UN judgment.Byron wrote:
When bail is given, the principal is regarded as delivered to the custody of his sureties. Their dominion is a continuance of the original imprisonment. Whenever they choose to do so, they may seize him and deliver him up in their discharge.
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Well I guess by that logic, anyone who has broken the law in the country they live in can consider themselves detained too, even if they haven't encountered a police officer since they too can be seized and delivered to their discharge whenever they choose.
Only problem the UN have with this bit of twisted language is that the UK can't just pick Assange up because he has placed himself out of their reach. That this 'detention' has been so prolonged is due to him being granted the grace to appeal his situation through the lengthy process of the law and clutch at every legal straw available to him first off and then to evade apprehension by holing up in the Ecuadorean Embassy.
He would not be there had he not put himself there. I don't see how any twisting of the definition of the word "detained" makes the fact that all of this has dragged on because Assange is evading actually being detained.
Oh yes, everyone could bend over for him and dance to his jig. The Swedish police could question him at the embassy but you know what? Fuck him, why should they? They applied for and got a European Arrest Warrant to have him detained and extradited. He appealed, several times and lost, then He jumped bail and hid where UK police can't get him. That doesn't make him poorly done by or deserving of sympathy, special treatment or compensation for fucks sake.
I truly hope he is jailed in the UK for breach of his bail conditions before he is extradited to Sweden. If he is found guilty of the sex offences there, I hope he does jail time there too. As for what he did in the USA, if they want him back, they ask whichever country he is in to extradite him and he goes back to face whatever charges they bring.
He has made his own choices in life. Perhaps he might have done things differently had he known what would happen but that is not my concern. Prisons the world over are full of people who might have behaved differently had they realised the consequences of their behaviour. Should we be compensating them and letting them go?