Snowden banned from flying to UK
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Snowden banned from flying to UK
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Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK
#2He'd be foolish to come to the UK anyway, we'd extradite him before he'd left the airport.
Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK
#3He'd be foolish to come to the UK anyway, we'd extradite him before he'd left the airport.
"liable to costs relating to the individual's detention and removal'' should they allow him to travel. According to the Home Office's website that charge would be £2,000"
Being a little bit cynical, but 2000 GBP seems closer to the cost of shipping him to the US than the cost of detaining him.
Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK
#4He'll be fine if he can get to the Ecuadorian Embassy quick enough :)
I live in the UK and am utterly disgusted at the pieces of shit that act in our name.
You can't vote them out as it's a bipartisan system with two sets of the same ideals.
You can't revolt because everyone is too busy staring at Simon Cowel's nefarious trash pumped through our telescreens.
You can't speak up because it's illegal.
Sit, obey, conform.
Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK
#5Surely Snowden knows that there isn't safe harbour in the UK after what happened to Assange?
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#6"There is no suggestion that he has any intention to try to travel to the UK."
Says it all really. Don't waste your time reading this hypey article.
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#7I imagine that Snowden is well aware of the UK's 'poodle' relationship.
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#8I'm not sure if this is a clever or pathetic attempt to try and manipulate the courts in HK, but that's pretty clearly what it is. They are a former English colony, whose courts are based on English law and who presumably hold the opinions of England in very high regard.
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#9He'll be fine if he can get to the Ecuadorian Embassy quick enough :) I live in the UK and am utterly disgusted at the pieces of shit that act in our name. You can't vote them out as it's a bipartisan system with two sets of the same ideals. You can't revolt because everyone is too busy staring at Simon Cowel's nefarious trash pumped through our telescreens. You can't speak up because it's illegal. Sit, obey, conform…
That cracked me up. Is Assange expected to die in that embassy?
Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK
#10He'll be fine if he can get to the Ecuadorian Embassy quick enough :) I live in the UK and am utterly disgusted at the pieces of shit that act in our name. You can't vote them out as it's a bipartisan system with two sets of the same ideals. You can't revolt because everyone is too busy staring at Simon Cowel's nefarious trash pumped through our telescreens. You can't speak up because it's illegal. Sit, obey, conform…
That cracked me up. Is Assange expected to die in that embassy?
At the moment, yes. His only other options are:
1. Get from the building to a diplomatically immune car and out of the EU. Not going to happen: the fuzz will snag him the moment he steps out of the door.
2. Wait for a politically sympathetic party is voted in and the extradition rules are changed. Not going to happen: people are too stupid to vote for anything other than "the big two" and if they did, they won't change policy or America will go all "Fuck Yeah" on our arses.
3. Wait for the whole thing to be uncovered publicly as a fucking massive international political scam and he is pardoned.
4. Hope that Kurzweil was right, upload his conscious mind to a machine with OpenSSH and SCP himself overseas.
I reckon (3) is most likely.