England let mass murderer Pinochet go free but threatening Assange via Ecuador.

[Luminous Animal]

Interesting. One man wanted for mass murder & torture. Another for questioning on allegation with no charges levied against him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/03/world/after-16-months-of-house-arrest-pinochet-quits-england.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

A Chilean military plane lifted off from Waddington Royal Air Force Base in Lincolnshire at 1:10 p.m., just hours after the decision to free the 84-year-old former Chilean dictator was announced by Home Secretary Jack Straw.

Moments after the plane was airborne, Mr. Straw told the House of Commons that because of the failing health of General Pinochet, he was ending the complex legal and judicial case in which four European countries had been seeking the general's extradition. Spain had initiated the case by asking that he be sent to Madrid to stand trial on charges of torture dating from his 17-year authoritarian rule of Chile in which more than 3,000 people died or disappeared.

[backscatter712]

1. Exactly. The UK, US and Swedish gov'ts wouldn't be this apeshit if this was only about date rape.

They didn't raid embassies or cause diplomatic incidents about FUCKING PINOCHET, but they threatened to storm an embassy to arrest Julian Assange, claiming that he needs to answer questions over allegations of screwing a girl while asleep (after she voluntarily got into bed with him) and about a broken condom.

Riiiiight...

[sabrina 1]

3. And the courageous Spanish Judge who finally had the guts to go after Pinochet

and then to go after the Bush Six, was himself smeared and charged in what many are certain was an attempt to silence him too.

He is now working for Assange's legal team.

It is outrageous the way War Criminals are protected, and very disappointing that this administration interfered with the prosecution in Spain of the Bush torturers.

Assange exposed the War Criminals and was about to expose once again, the Banks.

Something is very, very wrong in this world, and it appears to be that those we trust to stop injustice, are more inclined to protect the perpetrators and go after the good guys.

[Luminous Animal]

5. Yep. Thanks for this, Sabrina.

[tama]

6. War criminals

protect war criminals, enemies of human kind and our planet stick together. Just as Obama protects Banks and Bush also from independent judicial procedures. The "conspiracy" is as simple as that.

[numnumnum]

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[freshwest]

4. I always wondered about Pinochet, Chile, Milton Friedman and the rest...

Exactly how far up and wide did the stink go? And here we have Mittens with his money making south of the border. I'm sure that heavy handed American policy and colonialism have made Ecuador and other Latin American countries more than eager to push of their chains.

[Hydra]

15. All the way to the top

And the deeper you dig, the more you find that it's all an incestuous orgy. Everyone involved in one facet is friends or related by blood or marriage to people involved in other crimes, until it makes a circular unbroken chain of nastiness.

As George Carlin aptly put it, "The Big Club."

[xchrom]

7. Du rec. Nt

[Swagman]

8. 26 yr old policewoman PC Yvonne Flecther was shot dead from the window of

the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984.

The British government allowed her murderer to leave the embassy and return home safely to Libya.

black is white.

[DeSwiss]

9. When BP wanted Libyan oil rights.....

...they remembered how to look the other way for the good of the economy. And of course Ecuador had the cajones to do this: BP Sued in Ecuador for Violating the Rights of Nature.

The people running this oil company, and the so-called ''leaders'' of this country are the worst criminals in the world. They have their fucking nerve being pissed at Ecuador after doing this in that country:



- Maybe GB sees surrounding the Ecuadorian embassy with police as a way to reduce BP's fines.

More money leftover for bribery....

K&R

[Luminous Animal]

10. Thatcher thanks Pinochet for bringing democracy to Chile...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/304516.stm

Spain is seeking to try him on charges alleging human rights violations during his 1973-1990 regime.

But the Lords also threw out almost all the charges levelled against him, since they pre-dated Britain's adoption of an international law allowing any nation to try anyone accused of torture.

That left the Spanish case against him consisting of only one count each of torture, conspiracy to torture and murder conspiracy.

However, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon on Friday added 30 more cases of torture and murder to the extradition charge sheet against Mr Pinochet.

Immediately after Wednesday's ruling, Pinochet's lawyers filed an appeal of Home Secretary Jack Straw's December decision to allow Spain's extradition request to go forward.


Lady Thatcher has campaigned for his release ever since his arrest in London.

Pinochet was an annual visitor to her home in London after he stepped down from power in 1990, always sending flowers and chocolates on his arrival in England.

Days before his arrest he was invited for tea at the former premier's home.

[magic59]

11. Englands rightwing government is as corrupt as our own

they are no more a free society then we are. Freedom is a pipe dream under fascist rule.

[Matilda]

12. Unfortunately, England's "left-wing" Blair government was just as bad.

Remember the Iraq invasion?

And I am disgusted that the Australian so-called left-wing government can only bleat about it being inappropriate for them to interfere on behalf of Assange. Not a peep out of them in defence of one of their own citizens.

I truly despair for democracy.

[Norrin Radd]

13. kr

[malaise]

14. But but but

Pinochet was Margaret Thatcher's good friend.