Assange: Refugee or Fugitive?

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I don't care whether it's the law or not, having consensual sex with another adult is not an offence in my view, or in just about anyone else's view.

It doesn`t matter if you care or not. Law is law.

Um, no it's not according to me. It's according to Ecuador who has granted him asylum, and according to the conventions set out by the UN which the UK is signatory to - has nothing to do with me you fool.

Yeah it is according to you because here`s the actual qoute from the UN charta protocol:

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Article 1
definition of the term “refugee”
A. For the purposes of the present Convention, the term “refugee” shall
apply to any person who:
(1) Has been considered a refugee under the Arrangements of 12 May 1926
and 30 June 1928 or under the Conventions of 28 October 1933 and 10
February 1938, the Protocol of 14 September 1939 or the Constitution of
the International Refugee Organization;
Decisions of non-eligibility taken by the International Refugee Organization during the period of its activities shall not prevent the status
of refugee being accorded to persons who fulfil the conditions of paragraph 2 of this section;
(2) As a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951 and owing to wellfounded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear,
is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who,
not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former
habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such
fear, is unwilling to return to it.
In the case of a person who has more than one nationality, the term “the
country of his nationality” shall mean each of the countries of which he
is a national, and a person shall not be deemed to be lacking the protection of the country of his nationality if, without any valid reason based
on well-founded fear, he has not availed himself of the protection of one
of the countries of which he is a national

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source link:http://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10.html

Now there is the phrase of "well founded" fear.
And in his case his fear, is not "well founded" he is simply searching for a cheap excuse to avoid trial in Sweden - a country which will not extradite him to the US.

And only because the president of Ecuador

(who by the way, is from a perspective on the human rights situation, one of the worst cunts in south america: http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2012/wor...12-ecuador )

says that he is a "refugee", this doesn`t mean that he is a refugee. Gaddafi called exiled lybians who critizised his regime traitors who should be repatriated and hanged - now guess why no one took that serious?

I don't care what kind of a person he is Germans, he's still allowed to conduct his business the way he wants without fear of persecution from the USA for espionage.

The entire point is, he has nothing to fear because sweden does not extradite to the US.

And again: show me an example where sweden is the US`s bitch?

Most journalists edit out the names of innocent parties, you're right, but the document itself is what we're concerned with. As for medical files - so what? Someone gave them to Wikileaks and they were published.

Because it is a violation of the right to privacy, to which also heads of states have a right to.

Generaly Assanges cult of "total" sociataly openess is madness!!!

He is somewhat the personalisation of Pavel Antipov from the 1965 movie adaptation of Doktor Schiwago who sees himself as the spearhead of progress when proclaiming: "The privat life is dead."