Don’t worry; I can confidently predict that we’ll see the smug features of Ed Balls-up smirking onto our TV screens, very soon, whereupon he’ll tell us that he has all of the answers to this country’s woes. Funny how a British political party (of any colour) can spend 10 years making a complete ricketts of managing the economy, but, give them a few short months in opposition, and they can put everything right. Perhaps we should let oppositions run this country, since they’re so much cleverer when they’re out of elected office.

Spot on 🙂

He seems to think that no one remembers that he was involved in Labours destruction of our economy.

But I take this recent report as proof that our current efforts are not working.
Perhaps investment in infrastructure and a less ‘London-centric’ future may help.

He is NO criminal: he is a Hero of the People. What law has he broken in Great Britain? Yes, uphold the law by all means but Julian has broken no law. We are wasting Police resources just sitting around on the off chance he may venture out, let hime have free passage to Ecuador.

Planemike

He’s broken his bail conditions! That was a crime last time I checked.

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He IS a criminal! He’s broken the laws of our land! Or are you saying that we shouldn’t spend time, effort and money upholding the law?

It empowers all people. You don’t need to strip people of their human rights in order to punish criminals, only to impose cruel and unusual punishments on people of your choosing. Your ethos assumes that the definition of “criminal” is to your choosing, when it may not be. Who is to say a leader won’t declare Jews, Gays, Polish, Muslims etc as criminals, and strip their humans rights? When you accept that humans rights are privileges to be withdrawn depending upon some condition, then you’re going to have to accept others choosing different conditions to you, with potentially very nasty consequences.

But that depends on what you define as “cruel and unusual”.

Many, including myself, would not judge imprisonment as a fitting punishment for murder. After all, the victim is dead, the perpetrator is still living.

By natures standard, long term imprisonment is “unusual”.

If his human rights can be taken away, then they are no longer rights, but privilages given to those whom it is popular to give them to.

Surely that ethos empowers criminals?

but I don’t think we should lower ourselves to his standards by throwing away his rights. No torture, beatings, nor murder should be acceptable, though I suspect he has probably received a least one from the police, given the timeframe in which he seems to have been prosecuted. From the article it seems he wants to die? In which case no worries!

Why should this man have ANY rights? What rights do his victims have? Surely the mother of his victim had the right to know where her son was buried?

Our ‘civilised’ society can not deal with people like this.

Kev – the two women he is accused of assaulting is an accusation of sexual assault. Therefore until either proved innocent or guilty we don’t know if their human rights were affected in any way!

He can’t be tried as he keeps running away! His sense of justice is skewed, but running away just makes him look guilty.

His supporters are behind him because of his wikileaks activities, not because they hold him up as a paragon of moral virtue.

Earlier in this thread, he is hailed as a “Hero of the people” repeatedly.

Many people do great things, but a hero is a person of outstanding moral fibre. Assange has proven that he lacks any moral fibre, and is as bad as those he targets through wiki leaks. Apparently he’s above the law…