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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 10:20 AM EDT |
Well, I'd agree on most of what you said, but Swedish politicians have been
known to bow to the demands of Microsoft, against the wishes of the Citizenry. I
have family in Sweden, and there is no doubt Sweden is among the best places to
live, politics wise and people wise.
Perhaps Julian knows more than he is letting on. Still by declaring him an enemy
of the State, that is stating flat out, that given any chance they will grab him
from any country they can. Obviously, they aren't going to storm an embassy. Not
yet anyway. Declaring a person an enemy of the state *is* in fact a clear go
ahead signal to every US law and military force to arrest him. It is a de facto
arrest warrant.
The US has gone into to other countries without authority and nabbed
extraterritorial criminals, and with more and more frequency taking out the
leaders (ok, dictators - in no particular order: Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Iraq,
etc. ) of sovereign nations. Don't even get me started on the US actions in
places like Cuba, Nicaragua, etc.
Please, don't delude yourself. If the Swedish authorities weren't planning on
shipping him to the US they'd have already given that promise to Julian. He's
asked for assurance not to be extradited to a third-party country in exchange
for voluntarily going to Sweden to answer questions.
If Sweden didn't have in place some secret deal to do just that, why would they
not consent. It's not like he has any outstanding warrants in any other country?
They seem to want to extradite him pretty badly.
The whole things reeks like a MS sponsored under the radar FUD campaign. Amazing
, people here on Groklaw, can have watched SCO et al play out and seen
Microsoft's handiwork against Linux, but can't see past the end of their noses
for an equally foul smelling plot by Nations. Nations are run by people too.
Perhaps the same kind of people running MS.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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