NPR said that if Assange is extradited to the U.S. he might be sent to Guantanamo...

Kablooie

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Tue Feb-08-11 09:33 PM
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NPR said that if Assange is extradited to the U.S. he might be sent to Guantanamo...

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Why the HELL does the United States of America have an offshore prison camp designed to make un-convicted political prisoners disappear?

This is pure, 100% banana republic kind of stuff.

America is supposed to the shining standard bearer of a country ruled by law.

We have devolved into a republic ruled by bananas.

I hang my head in shame at what we have become.

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RKP5637

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Tue Feb-08-11 09:35 PM
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1. So true! "We have devolved into a republic ruled by bananas." n/t

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RandomThoughts

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Tue Feb-08-11 09:35 PM
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2. They choose not to correct debt to me.

Edited on Tue Feb-08-11 09:35 PM by RandomThoughts

Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8cDmi7-U8

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PoliticAverse

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Tue Feb-08-11 09:40 PM
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3. To make them 'disappear' is part of what 'extraordinary rendition' and 'black sites' are about...

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site

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Robb

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Tue Feb-08-11 09:45 PM
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4. NPR said that was what Assange's *lawyer* said.

Assange is no more likely to visit Guantanemo than I am. Do you know when the last new prisoner was accepted there?

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rhett o rick

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Tue Feb-08-11 09:45 PM
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5. I also am ashamed. nm

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catabryna

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Tue Feb-08-11 09:55 PM
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6. Link?

And, just cause they say it, doesn't make it true. Puhleeeze.

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Kablooie

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Tue Feb-08-11 10:04 PM
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7. Here's the audio.

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=133600386&m=133600355

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markpkessinger

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Tue Feb-08-11 10:08 PM
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8. Not impossible, but unlikely

I agree that the fact that Guantanamo remains in operation is (or should be) a source of national shame.

As for Assange, though, at this point he has too many supporters for the Administration to try something that stupid. There would be worldwide outrage over a move like that.

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Denninmi

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Tue Feb-08-11 10:26 PM
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9. Another empty chair at next years Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony?

How would that be for an irony?

BTW, is Assange actually nominated, or was it just a publicity stunt? I heard that the nomination was one day too late -- did they make an exception for him?

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