Sorry, hermit, I meant 'hermit'.

Julian himself does not advocate a fair trial for those in a more threatened situation:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/18/julian-assange-wikileaks-nick-cohen :

Guardian journalists' "David Leigh and Luke Harding's history of WikiLeaks describes how journalists took Assange to Moro's, a classy Spanish restaurant in central London.

A reporter worried that Assange would risk killing Afghans who had co-operated with American forces if he put US secrets online without taking the basic precaution of removing their names. "Well, they're informants," Assange replied. "So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it."

A silence fell on the table as the reporters realised that the man the gullible hailed as the pioneer of a new age of transparency was willing to hand death lists to psychopaths.

They persuaded Assange to remove names before publishing the State Department Afghanistan cables. But Assange's disillusioned associates suggest that the failure to expose "informants" niggled in his mind."

Nice.

Sorry, Loudmouth.
I am not Killarney.

That Swedish prosecutor is trying to make "the old joke" to become reality is hardly a good look for "Swedish justice system".

Julian is not a saint - he is a guy who had a powerful idea of holding corporations and governments accountable by shining a light on the things they prefer to keep secret. He found a way for whistleblowers to anonymously pass on information that was in the public interest.

He worked with well known publications like the Guardian and The New York Times and Der Speigel to release this information.

It was certainly embarrassing for many governments to have their secrets exposed. However, there is no evidence of anyone coming to harm due to Wikileaks revelations. Unlike the 100,000s killed and the millions displaced in Iraq due to an illegal war of aggression. US commentators and presidential hopefuls like Palin and Huckabee called for his torture and assassination.

So what of the allegations against him? Both women who have made complaints to the police said they had consensual sex, but wanted him to have an STD test due to condom breakage and the possibility he didn't use a condom. He is not accused of violence of any kind. They did not complain of rape or sexual molestation - that was a charge made by the Swedish Prosecutor. Strange.

He had an Interpol alert put out because of a broken condom and request for an STD test? When has this happened ever happened before? Strange.

Since 2010, the Prosecutor said they could not interview Assange outside of Sweden despite this being done in other cases. Now they say they can. Strange.

The US government has denied the existance of a grand jury indictment for Assange. However Stratfor emails confirm there is a sealed indictment on Assange. Strange.

He has been effectively been imprisoned in the Uruguay Embassy for nearly 3 years. The UK met police have spent 9 million pounds standing outside the Embassy 24/7. Strange.

Love him or loathe him the case against him, you must admit, is very strange.