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Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange
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#12And from the Met Police's point of view: http://news.met.police.uk/news/covert-plan-at-ecuadorian-emb...
I find it interesting that MPS went and consulted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before deciding how to balance their internal resources in a proportionate way.
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#13I really wish someone would come along and go, "Aha! Assange has secretly been living in Ecuador this whole time. Fooled you, UK gov!" But then again, I like to see government incompetence used against itself rather than against innocent people, like what happens here in the US.
I'm surprised he hasn't been smuggled out in a diplomatic crate. Some of the shenanigans that went on with diplomatic bags shows that some countries are prepared to do this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1132544.stm The Soviets using one to transport a tractor shows the bags can be big enough to get a person out. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2234/is-there-such-...
I suppose there's the argument about how much the Ecuadorians are willing to risk annoying the UK — allowing him to stay is one thing, smuggling him out another.
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#14On mobile this redirects me to a bunch of spam somehow... Careful if you click through.
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#15I really wish someone would come along and go, "Aha! Assange has secretly been living in Ecuador this whole time. Fooled you, UK gov!" But then again, I like to see government incompetence used against itself rather than against innocent people, like what happens here in the US.
I'm surprised he hasn't been smuggled out in a diplomatic crate. Some of the shenanigans that went on with diplomatic bags shows that some countries are prepared to do this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1132544.stm The Soviets using one to transport a tractor shows the bags can be big enough to get a person out. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2234/is-there-such-...
US brought down a Presidential Plane in Search of Snowden. Any sort of bag/crate big enough to fit a person would be opened immediately.
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#16"The estimated cost of the police presence is more than £12m." So who should get fired for such a waste of police resources?
So whats the limit on how much society should spend to seek justice if someone raped you?
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#18"The estimated cost of the police presence is more than £12m." So who should get fired for such a waste of police resources?
So whats the limit on how much society should spend to seek justice if someone raped you?
From the point-of-view of the Metropolitan Police, he's wanted for two things: extradition for a criminal prosecution under a EAW (to Sweden), and for arrest under Section 7 of the Bail Act (for failing to surrender himself to the police as required by the conditions of bail).
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#19"The estimated cost of the police presence is more than £12m." So who should get fired for such a waste of police resources?
So whats the limit on how much society should spend to seek justice if someone raped you?
Send the bill to Sweden then. It is their problem.
Edit: Can someone explain the downvote - the UK government spend 12M GBP to monitor a person that Sweden wanted. It is up to Sweden to decide if such prodigious waste of resources is warranted.
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#20It's a trap!
It actually is, from the MET statement above:
...the MPS will deploy a number of overt and covert tactics to arrest him.