No charges ever pressed: Assange marks three years of UK detention

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117. discussions with sabrina would be more interesting if sabrina posted links or read the links

others posted and responded cogently, but my experience is that sabrina typically doesn't post links, doesn't read links, and simply repeats the same thing again and again and again

the posts are nearly predictable enough to be automatable

while it is entirely understandable that people have different opinions on issues, which they are reluctant to abandon, it has rather surprised me, for an extended period of time, just how irrelevant sabrina considers certain basic facts to be

especially notable among these basic facts, that sabrina considers completely uninteresting and unimportant, is the fact that different countries have different legal systems, which involve different processes and procedure, which are described in different languages that do not translate exactly

these differences, of course, are the subject of international agreements, such as the european unions "framework decision," the meaning of which was exhaustively argued in the assange case as the case wended its way slowly through the uk courts, in an effort to determine whether assange was in fact being "prosecuted" in sweden and whether the swedish arrest warrant was issued by a competent "judicial authority" in sweden

sabrina will have none of that: sabrina, though unwilling or unable provide a cogent explanation of the opinion, regards the uk court decisions as simply "wrong" and will complain again and again and again that the whole extradition is irregular because "assange has not been charged with anything" -- which is (in one sense) completely false or (in another sense) so muddled so as to be meaningless

it is completely false in the following sense: two swedish women have charged that assange raped them

it is meaninglessly muddled in the following sense: a entirely regular prosecution of assange has been initiated in sweden under swedish law; the swedish procedure is not directly comparable to the procedures of english common law; and while there are some parallels with the english procedure, the swedish procedure is described by swedish terms which do not directly translate into english, because their legal significance differs somewhat from the legal significance of any english terms by which they might be rendered

assange litigated this matter in the uk courts and lost rather decisively