If Assange was a Catholic Priest the left would be totally stuffed. They would not know which side to take.

Hi there SUSEONLINE...

I agree with you, amend the laws concerning those individuals seeking refuge in a foreign embassy in order to evade prosecution. Send him to Sweden, and if the United States believe they have a case against him, than lodge a formal request with the Swedish government to extradite Mr ASSANGE to the US to face those charges.

I understand many people are immensely critical of the Americans for many reasons that aside, if this bloke has stolen classified material and unlawfully disseminated to the world's media, then let him face his accusers, to answer those charges. As I indicated in my earlier thread, this bloke strikes me as being a repulsively obsequious type, and I'd not trust him a single inch.

Ecuador could grant him citizenship and then give him a post as a diplomat and consequent diplomatic immunity.

If the women have now changed their evidence then there is no reason for Sweden to not drop the charges.

Publicity would not save him from the US, there are votes involved.

Dearest Foxy,

Why Sweden's Chief Prosecutor has refused to go to London to interview Assange ..... ?

Because she doesn't have to, on the one hand, and a Swedish court may not have jurisdiction in Britain, on the other. Courts don't dance to the tune of people charged with offences: they order people to appear before them to answer charges, in their own jurisdictions.

That's all that slimebag has to do, appear in a Swedish court, and front up to the women who are accusing him. If they officially drop the charges, then he's free to go where he likes. If they don't, and he's found guilty of rape, he does the time. And we can all get back to something more serious.

Lovely logic, though: he scurries into the Ecuadorian embassy, and some bunch of clowns finds that he has been illegally detained. Where ? In the embassy ? In Britain as a whole ? I thought embassies were sovereign territory, and that the Ecuadorian embassy was not actually on British soil.

I might use that logic: if I accidentally go past a pub, I can claim that I've been dragged inside and forced to down half a dozen pints, totally against my will. And some young chick rubbed up against me and forced me to grab her backside, to stop myself from falling over. Oh, the horror !

Joe

Foxy

Assange does not get to choose where he is questioned. He is most immediately guilty of skipping British bail - making himself a common criminal.

Assange's now former friends posted 10,000s of pounds bail to a London Court.

Assange failed all when he forced himsself on the Ecuadorian Embassy years ago. They now regret he ever turned up.

Assange should go to a London Court or London policemen's interview room like any other criminal suspect.

Contrary to his own self belief and that of his mainly female following Assange is not above legal procedures.

I do believe that obtaining sexual favours by fraud is a crime in NSW as well as in Sweden.
Certainly in parts of Australia it is rape if one is engaged in consensual sexual intercourse and either party says 'Stop'.
To continue is to legally rape the other person; somehow I can't see a bloke suddenly yelling a negative command/request.