Julian Assange Believes He’d Get Killed ‘Jack Ruby-style’ In US Prison

by Colby Hall | 9:29 am, December 24th, 2010

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WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange told The Guardian that he believed there is a “high chance” that he’d be killed in prison if he were to be extradited to a US jail on espionage charges. Jack Ruby died of lung cancer while serving in prison for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of President John F. Kennedy. While Assange appears to have his U.S. historical figures confused, his point remains.

Agence France-Presse reports (via Raw Story):

Assange told The Guardian it would be “politically impossible” for Britain to send him across the Atlantic, adding that the government of Prime Minister David Cameron would want to show it had not been “co-opted” by Washington.

“Legally the UK has the right to not extradite for political crimes. Espionage is the classic case of political crimes. It is at the discretion of the UK government as to whether to apply to that exception,” he said.

He said US authorities were “trying to strike a plea deal” with Bradley Manning, the US army soldier suspected of providing WikiLeaks with the cables.

Assange added that if the United States succeeded in getting him extradited from Britain or Sweden, then there was a “high chance” of him being killed “Jack Ruby-style” in an American prison.

Ruby, a nightclub owner, shot dead Lee Harvey Oswald at a police station in Dallas, Texas days after Oswald was arrested for the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

U.S. authorities have spoken openly about extraditing Assange on espionage charges, though it is still unclear how what, if any, U.S. laws he’s broken. Assange has already said that he has from US lawyers “that there may be a US indictment for espionage for me coming from a secret grand jury investigation.”

Julian Assange, The Guardian

david r

“Shot while trying to escape.” Works in Guatemala.
skyfet

At least he seems to know how he will die.
Dem4Ever

What a little drama queen.
Harry Flashman

This is PR spin at it’s very best.

There is no better way to fire up his liberal supporters and he knows it. He’s already crying that Bradley Manning is being tortured and the UN now wants to do an investigation into the possible human rights abuses there.

This guy doesn’t know it, but he’s a useful idiot for the far left, a sockpuppet who is too arrogant to realize that there is a left hand shoved way, WAY up his rear making his mouth move.

When the left is done with him, or he goes after the wrong one with Wikileaks, they’ll drop him like a bad habit.

Ask Cindy Sheehan.
BatBoy

I don’t know about getting killed, but I would assume the name of his new cell mate would be Bend.

That is Inmate Bend Over!

Oh well! It happens!
Powerslave

Let’s see. A thin petite man with pretty blonde hair.

Yeah, if I were him I’d be more worried about being raped “Oz” style.
kabmn00

Powerslave

SchillinGer on him.

Yes a G, if you know, u know
Scott_in_MI

Powerslave said:
Let’s see. A thin petite man with pretty blonde hair. Yeah, if I were him I’d be more worried about being raped “Oz” style.

They don’t take to kindly to those convicted of sexual crimes…this little weasel would be one step above child molesters (but not much higher since he is putting American soldiers in danger.) Fortunately, Julian can be both a male and female name. This will make it easier to keep his actual name after he’s turned into a bitch.

“You sure do got some pertty lips Julian . . .”
Just4thefax

Fact: Really, Valor used to be measured by what a person did for his country to dispose of as many of his enemies as possible now it’s measured by how many one can save. With the amount of liberals out progressing for us now in the USA I find it that he is pretty safe here unless he goes close to the border!
goodolgil

Seriously? He’s not “confused” about historical figures; he means that he would be killed in the same style that Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvard Oswald–by someone running up to him out of nowhere and shanking him (the fact that Ruby shot Oswald isn’t relevant to the point).

Nobody cares about how Jack Ruby died.
Liberty Back For More

I doubt they’d kill him. This dude looks like the typical European b*tch so they’d use him as such.
Scott_in_MI

Liberty Back For More said:
I doubt they’d kill him. This dude looks like the typical European b*tch so they’d use him as such.

Hopefully Karma will come full-circle on this RAPIST
Bill Mahwer

This guy is obsessed with himself. He will get no different treatment in a US prison than anyone else.
Just make sure not to drop the soap in the showers.
http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

I would love to see this pretty boy-b*tch spend a few years in the yard getting his nether regions penetrated without his consent just like he did to the two groupies who claimed condom-abuse and refusal to take an HIV test in Sweden. The Lez Bean mafiosa creed of protect the womenfolk holds true here and except for Mad Mikey Fatboy, not even the libs are gonna be too unhappy if he gets serially buggered until his pretty butt bleeds.

His attitude so far has been hypocritical, condescending, and arrogant—-I’m sure the guys in the yard would change his stiff upper lip to an entrance to spermburper heaven.
Probably NOT wrong

I have seen this on MSNBC Lock up!
He has got to make sure he tells his first New Husband
he loves him and calls him Darling!
That way Husband won’t pass him around as often!
giraffe

Every comment I’ve read sounds like lunacy. Of course the WikiLeaks will give the show away on politicians and I suppose that bothers nobody on the right? Take your channel changer and move off FAUX to find out how GOP is going to send you to the poor house. But there is not hope for your kind.