[lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange

[// ravi]

On Aug 17, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:25 PM, // ravi wrote:
>> Everyone else, I think, would just find it puzzling, if not outright bizarre, to follow the reasoning of how the UK could “logically” (i.e., technically) protect Pinochet while assisting the transfer of Assange to Gitmo.
> 
> There was nothing "technical," let alone legal, about the release of Pinochet.  Blair's Home Secretary, Jack Straw, <snip happens>

Ah, but my good man, I was speaking of discussion on this list, not about the reasoning (or lack of it) of Jack Straw at the time of the release of Pinochet!

	—ravi