Assange not running in new Australian election Julian Assange will not, as previously indicated, run for Australia Senate again. The part-time Ecuadorian ran as a candidate for The Wikileaks Party at Australia's general election last year, hoping to win a Senate seat in the State of Victoria. Doing so probably would not have allowed him safe passage from Ecuador’s London …
He probably cares more about the interests of Australians than the traitors in Australia's government that aid the NSA in spying on Australian citizens.
A government employee must ask himself one question: Is my first loyalty to my country and its citizens or to some foreign power?
Too many make their first loyalty to a foreign power, which is the definition of a traitor.
are you referring to the 1970's Gough Whitlam/Sir John Kerrfuffle? or the more recent Ass-ange summer-prawn-barbie problems?
2 random links: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593091/Women-make-best-spies-says-female-MI6-officer.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10733745/Women-make-bloody-good-spies-says-MI6-officer.html
sorry that I don't have these in Swedish
He's not so much running, as sitting on his arse on someone else's sofa.
Perhaps his plan is to eat so many microwaved readymeals and tasty snacks, that he can't fit through the embasy door anymore, and is therefore permanently safe from extradition.
Presumably he's not on the electoral roll? Hence he can't stand. Which is his fault, not theirs. After all, he was allowed to stand last time. For all the good it did him. Or would have done any voters foolish enough to elect him, given that he's not able to take his seat, due to the minor matter of hiding inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, in order to avoid questioning in Sweden for alleged rape.
So I vote no to the banana repulic thing, and yes to the it's more likely he screwed up his paperwork thing. If you can't fill out a couple of forms correctly, and in a timely manner, you're probably not fit for office. Reminds me of a party who said they accidentally filled their voting preference forms out incorrectly, potentially passing their second preferences to the wrong parties... Now who could that be?
Julian Assange is ineligible for standing in the next election and always has been. If he won, he would have been found ineligible after a court challenged. It is about what is an "offence punishable under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State by imprisonment for one year or longer." I Assange is in a foreign country convicted for an act that is an offence in Australia, he is ineligible.
He's not been convicted of anything overseas, as far as I'm aware. He's got a hacking conviction in Australia, from many years ago. But he's not been to court in the UK for skipping his bail, even though he's obviously guilty, as I seem to remember his guarantors have already lost their money.
Does that count as a crime, or is it contempt of court? Because contempt is a weird system - at least when administered by the court in question. Criminal contempt is another matter, brought as a normal case but by the Attorney General. As for Sweden, he's not even been charged yet, and can't be until they can arrest him.
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