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Wikileaks Assange bail guarantors ordered to pay £ 93.000
Nine people who put up bail for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including two members of the British aristocracy and a Nobel Prize winner, were ordered to pay 93,000 pounds on Monday after Assange took refuge in Ecuador's embassy. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesPssst, Julian! Hey, Julian!
Oct 09th, 2012 - 05:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0How are you doing in there?
You sure have some generous friends!
Assange will probably have a major health or mental breakdown and have to be removed to hospital where he will arrested and subsequently deported.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Concerning Ecuador Law....some laws are pitiful...try this one on:
Ecuador is a beautiful country with probably the worst possible traffic laws in the World.
There “no fault” approach to accidents can mean that if a suicidal motor cyclist drives in front of a bus loaded with passengers and the driver accidentally kills the motor cyclist, then the driver will end up in a barred windowless prison for up to 5 years! This could be in Quito, freezing in Winter and sweating in Summer. The traffic prisons offer no amenities so prisoners have to clean their own toilets, buy and cook their own food, etc., etc.
I personally know of an Ecuadorean female lawyer who accidentally killed a person in a road accident and immediately took a taxi to the airport and flew to New York...never to return to Ecuador....so much for Ecuadorian law...moral of the story...NEVER drive in Ecuador !!!
I think the Ecuadoreans have tried to think of every which way to get Assange out of their cramped offices. They asked the UK government if, theoretically, Assange were to be taken ill, could he leave the embassy and if it would be possible for him to be given safe passage to Ecuador. The answer in both cases was that if he sets foot outside the embassy he will be arrested. The UK have an obligation to abide by the extradition to Sweden as all possible legal routes in the UK have been exhausted.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still, Assange had a visit from Lady Gaga last night. Two self-obsessed narcissists in the same room for hours, the parallel conversations must have been fascinating.
Didn't Ecuador say recently that Assange could be in their “embassy” for TEN years? (Note: The “embassy” is the people. The place where they operate is called a chancellery.) Glad to see that this article finally got something right. Ecuador gave Assange “diplomatic asylum”, a status unrecognised outside South America. Something to look forward to, eh, Julie? Wonder if all those people who've had to cough up because of your cowardice will want their money back? Anyhow, TEN years, FIFTEEN years, TWENTY years, makes no difference. You're still going to get arrested when you come out. And you're still going to Sweden. One possibility for coming out without being arrested. You can come out in a pine box. But we'll still look inside to make sure you're really there. And we'll still be there while they pile six feet of earth on top of your box.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Vaughan Smith - one of the nine, who housed Assange for 13 months after his arrest - argued for the entire group in court last week. He had said it should pay no money at all because the case had dragged on for much longer than expected and Assange had ***not warned the group's members before entering the embassy.***”
Oct 09th, 2012 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jiminy Christmas, what did they expect?!? Anecdotal accounts present JA as a narcissistic jerk and very bad roommate (I feel badly for what the embassy staff in that relative small office space have to go through daily to accommodate him while having to put in a happy face to satisfy their superiors back home). Of *course* he was going to leave them hanging. He's on a mission. He is above them all.
Serves 'em right for standing behind someone who thinks publishing names of Belarus dissidents and “not 'rape' rape” is kewl.
And the case only dragged on so long because of Assange's desperate attempt at avoiding facing questioning and investigation by the Swedes.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 05:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The bail was set so high because he was considered a flight risk.
Perhaps his backers could now sue Ecuador, for their money back .lol.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's the matter, dummies? You thought Assange was honest, integrous, trustworthy? You pays your money and you lose it. Because he's dishonest, fraudulent, lying, mendacious, narcissistic and self-indulgent. Not to mention a sexual predator with no morals. Let's do the world a favour. Shoot him dead!
Oct 09th, 2012 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No need to shoot him. The worst thing you can do to someone with narcissistic personality disorder is to ignore them. They cannot stand it.
Oct 09th, 2012 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you mean like [adorable]
Oct 09th, 2012 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“”Nobody wants to lose 12,000 pounds and though my family may now live less comfortably, at least we will be able to live with ourselves, “ Smith said afterwards.”
Oct 10th, 2012 - 12:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0What an absolute prat. What did he think was going to happen? He had the ego trip while Assange was sponging off him and he couldn't see the likely outcome? ‘He didn't tell us' he bleats! Ha, ha, ha.
I am still fully expecting Assange to suddenly 'fall ill' from an 'unknown source', at least the poor devils having to put up with his bleating about how unfair the world is could draw straws to administer the 'unknown source'.
Once he is outside in the ambulance he could expect to hear that well known pantomime saying “Allo, allo, what have we here, you’re nicked Sonny Jim”. There will be tears before bedtime!
LOLs
why did lady ga ga visit him,
Oct 10th, 2012 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0why was she allowed,
this just gives him publicity
@12 They are both famewhores.
Oct 10th, 2012 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mmm both losers then..
Oct 10th, 2012 - 05:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah, but Lady Gaga is the one with the bollocks.
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