ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Plant-Pilot** · 19-06-2012, 19:54

Reports are popping up that Assange is seeking asylum and is in the protection of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Do innocent people jump bail and seek political asylum when they are only extradited for questioning on a criminal matter? I mean, Sweden of all places! Not exactly a hotbed of torture is it? So why the drama?

Unless of course he's guilty of the sexual assault charges.

**Hootch** · 19-06-2012, 20:00

Great - that'll make that pillock Michael Moore a bit poorer then.

Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange | MichaelMoore.com

$20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail - Bailiffs!!!!

**Plant-Pilot** · 19-06-2012, 20:10

Well jumping bail is one way of pissing off your friends and puts more than a little doubt on your innocence as to the assault charges. More to the point, jumping bail and seeking asylum means that he is will more than likely end up in Ecuador, and if he thought he was not safe from the CIA in Sweden, he's a sitting target in Ecuador.

**Roadster280** · 19-06-2012, 20:22

I'm all for fair treatment, due process and rule of law. However, this twunt is taking the piss. Can't plod look the other way while the big SUVs from Grosvenor Square rock up and and a small plane departs Northolt for Florida about an hour later? Failing that, just off him?

**Plant-Pilot** · 19-06-2012, 20:29

True enough. Cost the UK taxpayer a fortune on appeal after appeal, and when it all looks like it's not going your way, jump bail and leave.

If he had won the first hearing, that would have been that and he would be shouting how the court had proved his 'innocence'.

**Roadster280** · 19-06-2012, 20:34

I'd be inclined to forgive the below picture of guilt, but not Assange. He needs to be made an example of.

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**Plant-Pilot** · 19-06-2012, 20:34

Embassy of Ecuador in London » Statement on Julian Assange

A brief statement from the Embassy.

I had to smile at this bit:-

"The decision to consider Mr Assange’s application for protective asylum should in no way be interpreted as the Government of Ecuador interfering in the judicial processes of either the United Kingdom or Sweden."

Because it obviously is!

**Hootch** · 19-06-2012, 20:35

This twerp put him up for a year Vaughan Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
at this place Ellingham Hall, Norfolk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Smith's father was a Queen's Messenger and a colonel in the Grenadier Guards.[1] Smith was an officer in the same regiment, serving in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Germany. Smith captained the Army shooting team[1] and won the inter-army rifle shooting championship. Prior to setting up Frontline News TV, he was briefly a microlight test pilot

But he did kick him out after a year.

**DavidBOC** · 19-06-2012, 20:37

Originally Posted by Hootch

Great - that'll make that pillock Michael Moore a bit poorer then.

Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange | MichaelMoore.com

$20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail - Bailiffs!!!!

Why can't the CO's provide a "completely and totally love it" button.

I hope all the loveys who posted money lose it.

**Plant-Pilot** · 19-06-2012, 20:43

The other strange thing is Assange's choice of place to flee to. Considering his crusade for free speech and freedom of informaton, why would he choose to go to the country with the most oppressed media in S America?

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