Pericles

'The Assange situation is beyond ludicrous. It defies any form of logic or constructive thought.'

Actually, no.

Once you get rid of the ideological blinkers of a lifetime of 'us = good/them = evil' brainwashing, the Assange scenario becomes perfectly logical and constructive.

As writers like Pilger and many others keep pointing out, the issue is not about the US or Sweden or the UK or Ecuador any other nation as such - in fact, it's not really even about Assange.

It's about how power functions. For at least 100 years, the US (and its minions) has been positioning itself as the undisputed leader of an eventual fully globalised world. It joins a long list of other nations throughout history that sought and gained world domination to a greater or lesser degree.

Obviously, it can't fight every country and every heretic individual that challenges its hegemony - so, it selects certain countries and certain individuals for cruel and unusual punishment, ensuring that the whole charade is turned into ('shock and awe') spectacle.

Psychological Warfare 101.

US foreign policy assumes itself to be above any concerns about being seen as logical. In fact, the more ILLOGICAL it appears and the more IRRATIONAL its behaviour, the more the global population will fear it

The person in question is a private citizen, not above British justice, skipped bail and should hand himself in.

Dear Plantagenet,

<<The person in question is a private citizen, not above British justice>>

Sure, nothing places him above British justice - but what under the heavens justifies placing him below it?!

Hi Yuyutsu

He's not "below" British justice. Instead of being locked up years ago he was allowed by a British court to stay in a friend's mansion while bail was agreed. Then he skipped bail because he belived he was entitled to a Head of State exemption from helping Swedish authorities with their enquiries.

The Swedes can only charge him, or not charge him, AFTER he helps them with their enquiries.

Dear Plantagenet,

<<Instead of being locked up years ago>>

But how could anyone lock another up unless they were below them?

Had Julian Assange not been placed below the British justice, then he wouldn't need to bail himself either to begin with. Skipping bail is not being above the law - but simply to stop being trampled below it.

Dear Pilger.

Assamge broke British law by jumping bail. You know it, I know it, everybody on planet Earth knows it. If you begin an article with an obvious and glaring lie, you shoot your credibility to hell. Nobody will take you seriously anymore because you are treating your readers as fools, who are so stupid that you can say anything and get away with it. Nobody likes being treated like fools, especially discerning readers who are the sort of people who are interested in social issues and who like to read differing opinions.

The rest of your article is inconsequential because your readers do not know when you are going to lie to them again.

So all your conspiracy claims about "secret deals" between Sweden and the USA has no credibility at all. Your readers can not confirm whether any "secret deals" exist, they rely upon your credibility to suppose that your claim is true. And you just shot that to pieces right from the beginning.