Assange put on Intepol "most wanted" list before he was charged with a crime.

Glenn pointed this out today on Democacy Now! and it should be highlighted: Intepol put Assange on the most wanted list before he was even charged with any crime. That's some first class service, right there:

GLENN GREENWALD: Well, what’s interesting is it’s being depicted in the media as some kind of an international manhunt that finally concluded. That’s what Matt Lauer announced this morning on NBC News, the international manhunt is over. The reality is that although this case has been around for quite some time, there was really only a valid arrest warrant for the first time in England, the country where he’s been located, as of yesterday, and last night his attorneys negotiated his turning himself in with the police department in London. So it was entirely voluntary. There was never any manhunt of any kind, nor has he been actually charged with a crime. The arrest warrant has been issued by the Swedish authorities in order to question him about the accusations that have been made. There’s no judgment that he’s guilty or that there should be a prosecution at all. They’re simply seeking to interrogate him.

And one of the most—the strangest and most interesting aspects of all of this is that it’s extremely unusual for Interpol, the international police agency used in Europe and other places, to be used in this manner. I mean, he was put on the, quote, "most wanted" list, even though, as I just said, he’s not charged with any crime. They’re simply seeking to interrogate him. And for months now, his attorneys have offered to the Swedish police and to prosecutors to make him available for questioning, whether it be by telephone or by Skype or by appearing in some other technologically suitable means, and yet they’ve been extremely insistent, very oddly so, that that isn’t good enough, that he actually make himself physically available in the jurisdiction of Sweden in order to be detained and interrogated.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/7/glenn_greenwald_julian_assange_arrest_and

Yesterday was December 6. Intepol's red notice went out 12/01.

http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2010/PR101.asp

and yes, i do consider them to be two separate things

Those whose crimes benefit the wealthy go free.
Those who threaten to expose the crimes are persecuted... or worse.

TTYL

This is You.... but some say its about him.

Your rights and the truth.

Wikileaks allows everyone to wear the Mask of V

lol

Yeah.... I think you hit a head on the nail
at least about myself.

But .... actually that shit goes on here

That's a world wide shit... but Americans
do have their pride.

doesn't affect me personally today - who cares? what's on tee vee? lets go shopping!

is vast and strong.

None. The Swedes say they merely want to talk to him.
This is bullshit.

I'm sure it will be an 'accident'. :eyes:

:shrug: