It is easy to speak about and evaluate a person “outside his shoes”. But I guess there is ample reason to suspect foul play in Sweden from the way things have been going and from the Swedish denial to interrogate Assange in the UK. Besides, Assange has never admitted committing any crime in Sweden or elsewhere. He just published existing documents he was given. Has the world lost all sense of decency… I think Ecuador is doing the whole world a favor in speaking out for human rights. More admirable, since it will only bring the country huge headaches!

And as MCMA previously said it wouldn’t be the first trial to be politically manipulated. For example UK granted non extradition to Spain for dictator Pinochet, who was well known to have committed the crimes he was accused of. Besides the US have granted non extradition to former CIA member Posada Carriles, well-known terrorist who admitted to having master minded the explosion of a civilian plane in the air in which 73 passengers died, among them the Cuban fencing team: adolescents and young adults. He also recognized having participated I the bombing of several hotels, where a tourist died. And said the tourist was simply at the “wrong place, at the wrong time.” Meanwhile five men, who simply wanted to spare lives of their countrymen put at risk by these same terrorists and infiltrated their organizations in Miami, are now in jail, accused of terrorism serving several life sentences each!!! Not to talk of past history like McCarthyism, or Japanese concentration camps in US during WWII. In any of these cases were the victims granted due process? Due process in the US is only what serves their interests of the day…

And yes, I’m sure extradition would follow trial in Sweden, sooo many people can’t be wrong.

¡Viva Ecuador! ¡Estamos con Correa! ¡La UNASUR y CELAC deben apoyar también, puesto que de seguro, la OEA no lo hará! ¡Vivimos un cambio de época!
Translation: We support Correa! UNASUR* and CELAC* should also give support, since, no doubt, OAS** will not! We are living a change of age!

* Two regional Latin American organizations by their Spanish acronyms, which don’t include the US or Canada, they are definitely not Latin America.
** The regional Organization of American States that includes Canada and the US, formerly best known as the organization of American colonies.

It is easy to speak about and evaluate a person “outside his shoes”. But I guess there is ample reason to suspect foul play in Sweden from the way things have been going and from the Swedish denial to interrogate Assange in the UK. Besides, Assange has never admitted committing any crime in Sweden or elsewhere. He just published existing documents he was given. Has the world lost all sense of decency… I think Ecuador is doing the whole world a favor in speaking out for human rights. More admirable, since it will only bring the country huge headaches!

And as MCMA previously said it wouldn’t be the first trial to be politically manipulated. For example UK granted non extradition to Spain for dictator Pinochet, who was well known to have committed the crimes he was accused of. Besides the US have granted non extradition to former CIA member Posada Carriles, well-known terrorist who admitted to having master minded the explosion of a civilian plane in the air in which 73 passengers died, among them the Cuban fencing team: adolescents and young adults. He also recognized having participated I the bombing of several hotels, where a tourist died. And said the tourist was simply at the “wrong place, at the wrong time.” Meanwhile five men, who simply wanted to spare lives of their countrymen put at risk by these same terrorists and infiltrated their organizations in Miami, are now in jail, accused of terrorism serving several life sentences each!!! Not to talk of past history like McCarthyism, or Japanese concentration camps in US during WWII. In any of these cases were the victims granted due process? Due process in the US is only what serves their interests of the day…

And yes, I’m sure extradition would follow trial in Sweden, sooo many people can’t be wrong.

¡Viva Ecuador! ¡Estamos con Correa! ¡La UNASUR y CELAC deben apoyar también, puesto que de seguro, la OEA no lo hará! ¡Vivimos un cambio de época!
Translation: We support Correa! UNASUR* and CELAC* should also give support, since, no doubt, OAS** will not! We are living a change of age!

* Two regional Latin American organizations by their Spanish acronyms, which don’t include the US or Canada, they are definitely not Latin America.
** The regional Organization of American States that includes Canada and the US, best known as the organization of American colonies.

At least in Ecuador a socialist can use women in whatever way they want. Unlike Swedish women these latin lovers brook no argument, bitches are put there to give men fever.
We are most amused at these turd worlders like the Embassy staff talking justice and looking at our WC's with flecks of excrements marking the shiny white porcelian while their own countries is a sewer of bobbing turds. Andros you ar e quite right man child because the Yanks invaded Cusco and Iraq, Asstrange should be able to come anywhere he wants to.

At least in Ecuador a socialist can use women in whatever way they want. Unlike Swedish women these latin lovers brook no argument, bitches are put there to give men fever.
We are most amused at these turd worlders like the Embassy staff talking justice and looking at our WC's with flecks of excrements marking the shiny white porcelian while their own countries is a sewer of bobbing turds. Andros you ar e quite right man child because the Yanks invaded Cusco and Iraq, Asstrange should be able to come anywhere he wants to.

At least in Ecuador a socialist can use women in whatever way they want. Unlike Swedish women these latin lovers brook no argument, bitches are put there to give men fever.
We are most amused at these turd worlders like the Embassy staff talking justice and looking at our WC's with flecks of excrements marking the shiny white porcelian while their own countries is a sewer of bobbing turds. Andros you ar e quite right man child because the Yanks invaded Cusco and Iraq, Asstrange should be able to come anywhere he wants to.

To David:

This story is horse shit. It's remarkable that Assange got brought up on "rape" charges shortly after releasing the single largest cache of confidential government documents from multiple world nations. If it's not clear that these allegations were probably purely out of political motivation, then you're missing the point. I hope you don't call yourself a journalist in this vein.

I've heard multiple people call Assange a "traitor". That's f-ing moronic. This man and his organization's actions have been as in the spirit of the core of liberal democracy as anything we've seen from U.S. or European policy since the World War 2. His actions represent a conscious we are too quick to ignore/feign ignorance to, because we just don't want to admit that, in fact, the rest of the world has suffered so that we can have a few more conveniences.

And you dare try to smear him by saying, "hey, by the way, remember, in case you forget, that it's seriously possible that he raped someone. I have no proof but he was alleged. Plus he looks really creepy and talks with a low voice." - Yes the spitting image of a rapist.

If you want to call yourself a journalist, David, get your shit straight and adhere to what make journalism integral to a free society and journalists full of integrity: telling and holding fast to the truth.

So tired of idiocy, just as angry at Huffington Post for giving this guy a chance to speak. But hey at least is spurning a discussion.

To David:

This story is horse shit. It's remarkable that Assange got brought up on "rape" charges shortly after releasing the single largest cache of confidential government documents from multiple world nations. If it's not clear that these allegations were probably purely out of political motivation, then you're missing the point. I hope you don't call yourself a journalist in this vein.

I've heard multiple people call Assange a "traitor". That's f-ing moronic. This man and his organization's actions have been as in the spirit of the core of liberal democracy as anything we've seen from U.S. or European policy since the World War 2. His actions represent a conscious we are too quick to ignore/feign ignorance to, because we just don't want to admit that, in fact, the rest of the world has suffered so that we can have a few more conveniences.

And you dare try to smear him by saying, "hey, by the way, remember, in case you forget, that it's seriously possible that he raped someone. I have no proof but he was alleged. Plus he looks really creepy and talks with a low voice." - Yes the spitting image of a rapist.

If you want to call yourself a journalist, David, get your shit straight and adhere to what make journalism integral to a free society and journalists full of integrity: telling and holding fast to the truth.

So tired of idiocy, just as angry at Huffington Post for giving this guy a chance to speak. But hey at least is spurning a discussion.

As highlighted in a post above it would be incredibly difficult to extradite Assange from Sweden to the US.
This latest stunt is yet another appauling decision by Assange.
Just like Wikileaks lost all remaining credibility when they hacked into Startfor's system to steel private emails, what remained of Assange's reputation has now deminished.
This extradition ploy is nothing more than a sideshow aiming to take from the serious allegations in which he now must face.
I started out as a supporter of the Wikileaks movement but I no longer trust their motives.
I no longer trust Assange.

Your argument rather rests on the assumption that the Swedish sex charges are not the "spring-trap" set up to facilitate Assange's extradition to the United States - from whose draconian justice system and primitive penal system we all of us (thanks to the UK/US Extradition Treaty) have much to fear.

Mmmm.

I'm not sure playing this story with a straight bat, not mentioning any of the surrounding issues, is the right way to go about this. It's as if you've never heard of legal processes being subverted for political ends?

He's a man wanted by a country that will use any means, legal, illegal, underhand to get him.

Who knows what the truth of the rape allegations are. All we do know as that there are very good reasons for him to be afraid even if he's innocent, and we're swimming in murky waters.

Much of what is termed rape is in fact buyers remorse. Look at R v Blackwell and R v Donnellan, there must be no hiding place for false and malicious allegations. Examine the Ched Evans case - why is there no anonymity for the accused in rape trials?