So cute how Wikileaks is always trying to insert themselves into this story.
Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong
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#34Imagine the financial power in the data the government has and doesn't want to reveal. Like who is buying and selling what stocks. That information is gold for data mining.
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#35Looks like he walked right through a legal loop hole (for now).
I feel like HK was looking for a reason to wash their hands of this, since it would have been a political mess with no real upsides.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Venezuela is one of the most democratic countries in the world? All of their last elections have been externally ratified as being fair: http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/hugo-chavez-030513.html http://www.cartercenter.org/countries/venezuela-peace-electi...
Are you serious? Chavez spent his entire period in office warping the machinery of the state in his favor, and his successor is refusing to investigate some pretty serious allegations of fraud for the last one. http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21579458-real-questio...
"Chávez himself read my findings on potential elections theft – to his nation on his TV show – and then he moved swiftly, establishing an election system that Jimmy Carter, who has headed vote observer teams in 92 nations, called, 'an election process that is the best in the world'.
Here's how it works: every Venezuelan voter gets TWO ballots. One is electronic, the second is a paper print-out of the touch-screen ballot, which the voter reviews, authorises, then places in a locked ballot-box. An astounding 54 percent of the boxes are chosen at random to open and check against the computer tally. It's as close to a bulletproof count as you can get." [1]
In the face of significant US interference Venezuala could have gone extremely dictatorial, but it seems they went the other way and implemented a more secure voting process than in many other countries where electronic voting is used.
[1] http://www.gregpalast.com/did-chavez-pick-steal-the-election...
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would think the plane is safe and perhaps the plane could be considered as territory of the nation of the diplomat therefore the diplomat could offer him asylum on the plane if need be, but I may be wrong about the latter.
Nope: diplomatic immunity extends only to diplomats and their immediate families. As Snowden is neither, and cannot be nominated as one without the host country's approval, there's nothing stopping Russia or Cuba from detaining Snowden if they wanted to, no matter how many Elbonian diplomats he's travelling with. (Source: I used to have diplomatic immunity.)
Your personal experience is not a source, keep your reddit speak where it belongs.
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#38"Mr Snowden requested that WikiLeaks use its legal expertise and experience to secure his safety."
They tried 2 times before, Manning is in jail, Assange is living in an embassy. Only losers quit.
edit: I see that Garzon is on board, he's the one who tried to judge Pinochet, one of the CIA's dictator. His job ended when he tried to bring trials for acts of the spanish dictature.
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#39Suddenly the front page is Snowden Snowden Snowden. Hacker News is even worse than Reddit at latching to news-of-the-minute.
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#40How does diplomatic immunity work if you are in the entourage of an diplomat?
by default there is nothing, but it helps prevents too bold actions that might impact the diplomat too. There is a system where a diplomat can ask for a special authorization to get someone immunity to go somewhere. It's generally immunity from the embassy to the airport, and that's what Equator is denied for Assange by the UK.