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Maybe because many of us has reason to belive this isn't about justice but about how to get hold of Assange?

I'm no big fan of that man but there are so many questions around this investigation that I have serious problems believing most of the official story.

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It’s almost like there should be some place to work out questions of fact, publicly, with a focus on evidence... maybe a judge and some lawyers, I don’t know, some kind of koort... quort... court.

> It’s almost like there should be some place to work out questions of fact, publicly, with a focus on evidence... maybe a judge and some lawyers, I don’t know, some kind of koort... quort... court.

This kind of snark is obnoxious and never adds anything.

Even if I'm a big fan of HN style discussion and this snark was directed at me I'll say it adds to the discission because it allows me to add some depth to the argument.

I'm generally a huge fan of European police and think they often don’t get enough credit for the work they do.

That said, in this particular case there is a number of red flags for me, e.g.:

- generally Scandinavian police won't go to these lengths for cases like this. Why this time?

- why wouldn't they even meet him in the embassy until their deadlines started approaching? If I was trying to sort a case big enough to require extradition requests then flying to London to interview would be a no-brainer.

Most police and governments will go to serious lengths to apprehend someone who makes a public show of evading their control/justice systems.

See: Martha Stewart. Trotsky. Etc...

Thats actually a very reasonable explanation IMO.

If it were so obvious there would be no comment for me to reply to.

> If it were so obvious

I characterized your snark as obnoxious not obvious.

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