Updates to this story
While the Australian government bays for the crucifixion of its citizen Julian Assange and Wikileaks, it seems that local coppers think that neither have done anything wrong.
Australia has a long tradition of doing what the US tells it to ever since it let a boat load of French agents escape after the blowing up of the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand. Kiwi PM David Lange's government had angered the US by refusing to let nuclear weapons into the country so when the French agents got to Australia they were nodded on by the Aussie government.
Lately, Aussie Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been banging on that the actions of Wikileaks and Assange is "illegal" - as recently as two weeks ago. There were mutterings that Australia might have him extradited over the leaking of official United States government documents. All designed to re-affirm how much Australia loves the USA.
However, the Australian Federal Police said this is unlikely because of a quaint legal tradition in Oz, which requires someone to have broken the law before they are arrested.
A statement released by the federal police said that having gone through the evidence, Assange and Wikileaks have not broken any law where Australia would have jurisdiction.
Gillard said that she still thinks the leaks are irresponsible, but said she will not be changing the law.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland said coppers had noted a number of offences that could be applied in the circumstances, depending on whether all elements of the offence could be proven.
But federal police had not identified any criminal offences where Australia has jurisdiction and as a result have not commenced an investigation, he said.
The documents published to date are classified by the United States. The primary jurisdiction for any investigation into the matter remains the United States, he said.
FAIR DINKUM
mean?
asks this Yankee expat in Taiwan
And as far as Ass-ange is concerned, U.S. couldn't care less if he did/didn't break Australian law. He broke U.S. law, and if anyone catches him in any country that has extradition treaty with U.S., he can be sent here to be tried, convicted, and executed. All in accordance with our processes, naturally. We don't want to be thought of as just another bunch of Euro-peons, who go around killing others for the heck of it. *cough* Nazis *cough* British imperialists *cough*
The biggest joke of The Bookie’s Genetics of The Cervical, who are turning their populace into a seething mass of comfort and abandonment, is that they have the gall to try to turn The Chinese into another Russian toy fit for the junkyard. That is not easy because The Chinese genetics of The Bookie are very practical and to the point - calling the kettle black whilst blind-cockraoch like trying to remove its tarnish - something which the Anglo-Saxon Bookie Genetics are not able to do because they believed that they are actually squeaky clean, oka being conditional, another word for inactivity. We are not only what we eat, we are actually what we are doing, a simplicity which only the screw within the intellect is able to deny, oka being stupid, another word for being cruel whilst not forgetting that you have to be cruel to yourself first before you are able to be cruel to others, a fact which the cruel have yet to realised for the simple reason that they are actually stupid, oka he who lacks morality.
against JPA
"Is it just me or has the world gone completely mad?
Are men now meant to be masters of body language and/or have psychology degrees to understand when the sex they are having is consensual or not?
I'm sorry but from what I can see she never said "no". She never said "Stop" or "get off" - in fact she uses the word "allowed".
I've had my fair share of one night stands and women are all different. Some like it soft and gentle, some like it hard and fast. Some even *like* being held down, and some even like having their clothes passionately torn off!
Unless she says "NO" how the hell is he meant to know it's not consensual? Am I being unreasonable to expect that if a woman doesn't want to sleep with me she actually tells me not to?! "
Her account to police, which Assange disputes, stated that......... he began stroking her leg as they drank tea, before he pulled off her clothes and snapped a necklace that she was wearing. According to her statement she "tried to put on some articles of clothing as it was going too quickly and uncomfortably but Assange ripped them off again". Miss A told police that she didn't want to go any further "but that it was too late to stop Assange as she had gone along with it so far", and so she allowed him to undress her.
According to the statement, Miss A then realised he was trying to have unprotected sex with her. She told police that she had tried a number of times to reach for a condom but Assange had stopped her by holding her arms and pinning her legs. The statement records Miss A describing how Assange then released her arms and agreed to use a condom, but she told the police that at some stage Assange had "done something" with the condom that resulted in it becoming ripped, and ejaculated without withdrawing.
Ardin later told a friend that this had been "the worst sex ever": "not only had it been the world's worst screw, it had also been violent." Wow, a real-life bodice-ripping! We already knew Assange gets his game from dime store romance novels; he apparently gets his moves from them, too.
By your definition Robert Woodward broke the law in the Watergate affair.