You're the one reading Glenn Greenwald, bud.

Jesus. I need to stop reading the comments on the Guardian site. Read a couple of pages of them on that Milne article, and the latest Greenwald pro-Assange diatribe, and it's like staring into the abyss. That so many people are utter conspiracy theorist tinfoil hat-wearing loonbuckets is quite disturbing. They're as mad as a box of them hallucinogenic poison frogs wot've been dipped in heroin and spent all day licking each other.

Are we really this thick as a nation?

Then again millions of people watch X Factor, so I guess the answer's yes.

Jesus. I need to stop reading the comments on the Guardian any site.

I keep telling myself this on an almost daily basis, however I still find myself scrolling down, reading one or two by accident and looking away suddenly with a pained expression on my face - as if I've just walked in on my gran in the bath.

Heh. The only two websites I read semi-regularly are the Graun and El Reg. The Register's commenters are, by and large, not too bad. And include Chinny! But yes, in the round, I agree with you.

I agree with Kissyfur.

Loved the government's response that "of course you can have medical treatment if you come out. We're not stopping you getting treatment. It's just that we'll arrest you as well."

The "Arbitary detention" thing is ridiculous.

I understand the arbitrary detention thing as he has been effectively under house arrest despite claiming asylum in Ecuador and being at their embassy, yet not allowed to travel there.

He should still have to go to Sweden and face the charges/allegations; waiting out the statute of limitations on a charge in this way is dodgy AF.

Still, just noted the date of earlier parts of this thread. What happened to that Milne guy, eh?

Heh

I'd be hugely interested in who makes up this particular UN body, and what political viewpoints or vested interests they have ( e.g. anti-West). After the whole "let's make being mean to Islam a criminal offence" idea coming out of the UN working group I'm very suspicious of a lot of what they get up to in the "pontificating on stuff” arena.

Much of the criticism in the full report is directed at the methods adopted by the Swedish prosecutors.
The report states: “There has been a substantial failure to exercise due diligence on the part of the concerned states (Sweden and UK) with regard to the performance of the criminal administration ... After more than five years of time lapse, [Assange] is still left even before the stage of preliminary investigation with no predictability as to whether and when a formal process of any judicial dealing would commence.
“Despite that, it is left to the initial choice of the Swedish prosecution as to what mode of investigation would best suit the purpose of criminal justice, the exercise and implementation of the investigation method should be conducted in compliance with the rule of proportionality, including undertaking to explore alternative ways of administering justice.”

A MAN who has been waiting for his Argos purchase for more than 15 minutes is being detained in violation of his human rights, the UN has ruled.

Tom Logan was given his ticket for a Nespresso coffee machine at 9.46am, but is still confined within the store at 10.02am with no end to his ordeal in sight.

He said: “This is like what happened to Aung San Suu Kyi in Myamar.

“Outside, just feet away, people are walking around freely. Even in here they’re getting their ticket and leaving with their goods while I stay trapped, and two of them were behind me in the queue.

“They say I’m free to leave whenever I like, but that’s a £69.95 machine I’d be leaving behind so I’ve been left with no choice whatsoever.

“I’ve texted Amnesty International, but I keep losing signal.”

A UN spokesman said: “He can’t even compensate himself by stealing the little pens anymore, because they’ve replaced them all with iPads.”

Formally contesting it could legitimately just involve Theresa May sending a photocopy of her arse to the working group.

Breaking news on the telly just said the UK will formally contest this, as opposed to just ignoring it, which sounds interesting.

Assange is only being arbitrarily detained if you assign an arbitrary definition to the word arbitrary. And detained

Manning is to be released in May, as Obama commutes the sentence. Assange could be in a pickle, now ( he said he would go to US if Manni g freed), as one might assume the Trump administration to be less accomodating than the current one.

I think you have that about face.

Why would Trump be against the guy who helped Russia 'hack' the election in his favour? Trump likes Assange, as long as he behaves himself and only releases info on the likes of Clinton.

Nah, Trump and Assange are buds.

I would assume that Assange doesn't hold any particular allegiance to Trump though and would gladly leak stuff out about him if he thought it was in the public interest, no?

I would assume that Assange doesn't hold any particular allegiance to Trump though and would gladly leak stuff out about him if he thought it was in the public interest, no?

I would assume that Assange doesn't hold any particular allegiance to Trump though and would gladly leak stuff out about him if he thought it was in the public interest, no?

Assange was never a friend of the public interest.