Appeal Rejected, Assange Freed
- Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:27am by
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LONDON (AP) — A U.K. judge has rejected an appeal and granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who will be freed from a British jail.
High Court justice Duncan Ouseley rejected prosecutors’ argument that Assange should stay in prison and granted him conditional bail.
Assange has been in prison since Dec. 7, following his surrender to British police over a Swedish sex-crimes warrant. He denies wrongdoing but is refusing to surrender to Sweden’s request to extradite him for questioning.
Assange was granted a conditional release on 200,000 pounds ($316,000) bail Tuesday, but prosecutors sought to keep him behind bars, arguing there was a risk he would flee.
Last month WikiLeaks deeply angered U.S. officials by beginning to publish its trove of 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
LONDON (AP) – A U.K. judge has rejected an appeal and granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who will be freed from a British jail.
High Court justice Duncan Ouseley rejected prosecutors’ argument that Assange should stay in prison and granted him conditional bail.
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dontbotherme
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:38pmHe will be watched, as RBAGALA says, by many, many governments. His actions have affected many nations. I will be surprised if he is allowed to live much longer.
Report Post »rbagala
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 3:46pmMr. Assange maybe freed from prison but I firmly believe that from now on each and every action of his will be scrutinized by a dozen or more intelligence services across the world. He will be the most watched man at this time. No, he is not free. In fact he is far from it.
Report Post »By his selfish actions he has created his own cage and no act of his will go unscrutinized.
Tiny2bit
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:55amWe hear more on the personal life of Mr. Assange than we hear on how the documents were leaked and what’s being done about that.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:12amGod bless and keep Julian Assange safe.
It’s about time someone brought our corrupt governments to their knees!
Bring em all down!!
Now, if he would just leak….. ‘Page 47’! :)
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:14pmgood observation Sir.
Report Post »PaxFelix
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:36amColleagues, Ron Paul, M.D., has voiced his support for the WikiLeaks enterprise. That ought give all TRUE Libertarians pause. Perhaps we ought not allow a mindless knee-jerk condemnation of Assange and his compardres before giving some honest reflection. Just think: Which politician has suffered the most from the disclosures? Our current president and his State Department.
Yes, indeed, the private who sourced the documents broke federal law in a most egregious way, enormously magnified by his status as active military. Assange has no legal or moral ties to the USA. His appeal is to a moral compass to which US law is irrelevant.
Now, Assange’s moral compass is open to and ought to be examined and debated. On a personal level, he does seem to be consumed with bitterness, possibly even blind hatred, with striking unresolved authority “issues.” But sometimes, even the morally misguided and the mentally ill can do right things, albeit for wrong reasons.
Net effect to me seems to be that the Great Savior’s “redemption” of America’s image abroad has by these disclosures been discovered to be possessed of clay feet, nay, shameless hypocrisy. No, the end does not justify the means in the best Jesuitical moral teachings, but ultimately, how bad is that?
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:24amJust beautiful. Obama probably has a post waiting for him in the W.H.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:22amAnd the puppet show goes on….Don’t be fooled people, since Assange is just the self-deluded straw man for the truly powerful traitors that are betraying us all and leading us into bondage.
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:42amHe’s a commi, but if we advocate his imprisonment or death, what will we say when they come after us to shut down “right wing hate sites?
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:08amStop crying and hating that the man was freed on bail.
The Nazis couldn’t hold him forever on those trumped up falsified charges.
Report Post »The American
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:01amFollow the money, plain and simple! Where does this guy get his funding for his servers and trips around the world where he speaks at all the socialist gatherings?….Oh look he is being funded indirectly by George Soros, who would have thought that?
Report Post »Ken
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:42amWikileaks is a Marxist orginization that supports the agenda of the Communist’s in the White House.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:03amThat’s why this guy is still breathing our air and will have the opportunity to strike again. Planned chaos.
Report Post »Average_JoeMN
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:39amWhy is this clown still breathing our air?
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:49amIsn’t our air, Socialist haze is where he’s at. He should be prohibited from breathing our air here, knowing Obama, special White House engagement awaits.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:51amGood question, waterboard him for a week until we find out where ALL of it came from and lights out.
Report Post »ardua76
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:46amWhat the hell are you all whining about?!? Who are you people? What is this guy’s crime? Posting something on the internet? Maybe ‘accomplice to X’? What are you going to charge him with as a foreign national? Where is your sense of justice, of balance? Recalibrate your stance on this, because if you love justice, than this is not the human travisty of free speech you are making it out to be. I figured our government trying to make up ex-post-facto laws to get him, and our DOJ head salivating over the thought of if, would get your guys attention more that some guy exposing how corrupt and incompitent this adminstration has been working with our allies. Geez, this is only the perfect pretext for the government to hear your ‘discontent’ and come ‘protect’ you from future incidents. Wake up already . . .
Report Post »ETOOL USMC RECON
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:37amBin obama and his socialist friends HATE America so much that it would be no suprise to find out that the current adim is soilidy behide the leaks.
Report Post »No Army Pvt has access to anything near what was leaked.
Someone way up the food chain is involved in this mess.
american1st
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 3:21pm@ardua76 that’s right, unless we can bring a legitimate espionage charge against him (and we should be looking into whether we can) he is a journalist and protected by the same laws we may need to protect us some day.
Report Post »we cant let the fact that he is a progressive anarchist and shows no concern for the lives of those hurt by his leaks affect our view on this…. until that harm and his guilt is proven in a court he is innocent and the first amendment must not be lost or discarded because we don’t like what he stands for..
american1st
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 3:22pmsorry out of order reply, this was meant for a comment below .. oops
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:37amAnother scandal to tack onto the Imam Barry legacy.
Report Post »How shameful.
poverty.sucks
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:37amMichael Moore is salivating
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:31amThis guy is a side show tocover up for the Obama adminastration’s involvment in the document leaks. That PFC is a small fish too……….
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:43amI suppose Obama used stimulus money to bail his buddy out.
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:34amI still find it hard to believe that a PFC could download and walk out with over a quarter of a million classified and/or secret documents entirely on his own.
Report Post »The question is: Who among his superiors that could have pulled the strings has the most to benefit? Since Hillary is the one in government that is taking the most heat (with calls for her resignation), let’s look at who would be politically threatened by her. I see BO sitting back and grinning from ear to ear — the U.S. has been horribly damaged, and his biggest rival within his own party has taken a HUGE hit. Just good old Chicago-style politics at work.
Cobra Blue
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:51amWhy doesn’t this surprise me. As the planned chaos in this country continues to unfold we will see this guy and his group in the news again soon. His prosecution for sex crimes is just a time out. He’ll be back.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:15amEric Holder representing him?
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:43amDidn’t he surrender to authorities? Wouldn’t anyone else being charged with sexual misconduct be given bail? You all act like the legal system can and should be manipulated to suit your needs. He wasn’t being arrested for the leaks nor should his association with Wikileaks carry on to the charges of sexual misconduct.
Oh yes, let’s start treating those accused of a crime any which way we like, at our own whim based on pre-conceived notions of guilt. That’s not a dangerous precedent to set at all!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:08pmThis man will have his day in court in accordance to British Law; and if he flees the land, then let the bounty hunters have their day to bring him in.
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