He is not even charged. That is the insanity. They have not lodged changes, they just want to question him. Insane that they can issue an arrest warrant without associated charges
Under the Swedish legal system ( like some others on the continent) he has to be questioned by the prosecutor before formal charges can be filed. They are attempting to do this now. Assange refuses to cooperate.
This is character assassination.
We won't know until the trial, will we? Perhaps there is a reason Assange refuses to go to trial to clear his name.
Liberal meant smaller unobtrusive government.
Not anytime recently in the US.
Libertarian meant toll sidewalks and "blacks only" toilets.
And you probably think it was "famous" "Libertarian" politicians like George Wallace and Bull Connor that were responsible, right? Oh, did I write Libertarian? How silly, they were DEMOCRATS.
I can't decide if you are simply trolling or suffering from dementia.
But you don't understand, in the post 9-11 world we don't assess the real risks. Only the imaginary ones.
And end up paying billions/trillions of dollars for nothing.
In the post 9-11 era many people (including many on Slashdot) claim that real risks are imaginary.
For some people if it didn't happen to them it didn't happen at all.
Terrorism deaths rose 60% in 2013, independent study says
One of the reasons we end up paying billions/trillions "for nothing" is the propensity of some to throw away hard won gains. You can see that in Iraq. A previous example was Viet Nam, which could have turned out like Korea but for the craven behavior of the party controlling Congress.
Some people never learn until it is too late.
Perhaps Congress could start by dissolving the enivronment that has caused so many people to want to do antisocial things like harming a President, who is mostly supposed to be a CEO of the government, and occasionally lead a defensive war against the country.
I find it amusing that you think Congress can vote mental illness and evil intent out of existence.
No, the drones are disrupting terrorist organizations by killing their leaders and technical experts. If the terrorists are afraid of that then it is mainly a side benefit.
The average person in America isn't likely to be the specific target of a truck bomb attack. Federal buildings, on the other hand
Saddam's Iraq continued to work on extended range rockets in violation of various agreements and sanctions.
Not to mention we couldn't really end up in second place - because we were essentially the only runner in the race. The Soviets were years late in starting because they didn't believe we'd actually even stick with it. And even when they did enter the race, it was a half hearted effort with little political support.
That doesn't appear to be true.
Russians Finally Admit They Lost Race to Moon - December 18, 1989
After years of denial by silence and misinformation, the Soviet Union has now disclosed that in the 1960's it was indeed racing the United States to be first to send men to the Moon.
American aerospace engineers returning from Moscow reported yesterday that they were shown for the first time a spacecraft that Soviet engineers told them was ready to go to the Moon in 1968, a year before the Apollo 11 mission made the first landing on July 20, 1969. The Soviets disclosed that repeated failures of a booster rocket delayed the program and eventually caused its cancellation in the early 1970's.
One of the Americans, Dr. Edward F. Crawley of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the lunar-landing craft and Earth-return module he and his colleagues inspected and the descriptions they heard were ''confirmation that the Soviets did have a well-developed lunar-landing program.''
Dr. Young said Soviet engineers told the Americans the spacecraft were ''ready to go in 1968, and they were pressured to hurry up because of the successes of Apollo.'' The mission was held up by problems with the N1 booster, the Americans were told.
I hope you are able to escape Communist China some day.
Your entire argument hinges on that premise being true. Its not true. The rest of your argument falls with it.
Suppose I and my friends have all the money, all the property, and all the food, and you don't have any of it. What exactly are you free to do?
Yes, that sounds like a good system upon which to found civilization.
Who knew that an extraordinarily contrived strawman masquerading as a stand-in for a free enterprise economy might not be desirable as a living arrangement?
What's particularly sad is that some consider it "insightful," and probably some sort of indictment of real free enterprise economies.
In my opinion, the most obvious and interesting theory [maxkeiser.com] is that Putin's plane was near the same air space close to the same time as MH17
Your sense of what is "obvious" might be a bit off.
Web evidence points to pro-Russia rebels in downing of MH17 (+video)
Igor Girkin, a Ukrainian separatist leader also known as Strelkov, claimed responsibility on a popular Russian social-networking site for the downing of what he thought was a Ukrainian military transport plane shortly before reports that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 had crashed near the rebel held Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
MH17 disaster: Social media posts, phone recording used to blame Russian separatists
Social media posts by pro-Russian insurgents - most of them hastily removed - suggest the rebels thought they had shot down a Ukrainian army plane before realising in horror that it was in fact a packed Malaysian airliner.
Ukraine and MH17: Who are the separatists?
On Thursday evening a Russian social media page linked to the rebels announced they had knocked down a Ukrainian An-26, adding, “We warned them – don’t fly ‘in our sky’”. The post – which was accompanied by distant video-shots of smoke rising after an apparent crash – was later removed, but it has stoked suspicions that pro-Russian militiamen shot the Malaysian Airlines jet by mistake.
The evidence that may prove pro-Russian separatists shot down MH17
Deadly Ukraine Crash: German Intelligence Claims Pro-Russian Separatists Downed MH17
Putin's plane was an hour away.
This could have been a simple, yet tragic, case of mistaken identity.
It was, but not as you apparently intend. It wasn't the Ukrainians trying to shoot down Putin and being mistaken but rather the "separatists" shooting at what they mistakenly assumed was a Ukrainian aircraft.
Because this is not a black and white issue?
The issue of which side of an international border the combat units of a nation's army are located is pretty black and white.
5 Billion dollars was dumped into the Euromaiden coffers prior to the "revolt" (Search "Soros spending on Euromaidan" and you can read reports).
Even if that
Personally I dislike the West's method of imperialism. It's a round about method of invade and conquer without spending troops and bypasses the Constitution.
What do you think the Constitution has to say about any of that? You dislike assisting other countries in building democratic institutions?
What we have today is more reminiscent of the East India company. Executive orders for "war" and private funding has given mercenary powers to big business bypassing Constitutional requirements for declaration of war by Congress and the People.
Nonsense. What country has IBM or General Motors conquered and ruled? None.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
