Assange's crime in the UK is for not turning up to court. He lied and cheated the court, which was what got him (Lies & cheating) into the rape charges in the first place.
Julian a slow learner but an astronomically egotistical person. Pilger has been pushing his half-arsed views since the 1960's. I wonder where John pays taxes?

"Yeah, why don't the agencies of the fascist state get of Julian's back ? Great men also have their slight weaknesses, like ordinary people, so why can't we just put these rape allegations behind us and move on ? Those 'comrades' were probably put up to it anyway.

"Of course, the fascist Swedes will harass and harass, but why can't the British for once stick up for one of its citizens-by-residence and tell the Swedish fascists where to go ?

"The true modern Left needs people like Julian."

Pity the rest of us don't.

Joe

You know Graham, I'm pretty sure you aren't a fan of Pilger's, and you are short of editorial staff, but I am pretty sure that Pilger would not have written the word "struffle".

Even if he did, it would have been at least courteous for you as a editor to change it.

This reflects very badly on the quality of this 'publication'.

Have to agree absolutely with JBower!

Even so, I would allow this criminal to take a one way trip to ecuador,if only to save taxpayer's money.

And name him as an unfit person of low moral character if he should ever attempt to return!
Although I wouldn't prevent him trying to get in via Sweden!

And he could do the world a favor and take Putin's best mate and propaganda pulmigating mouthpiece with him!
Rhrosty.

Something is wrong here.

Previous authors on OLO, who argue that Assange is above the laws that govern normal folk, have been well-heeled lady Wiki-groupies. Slaves to A's big, bulbous, bulging input?

Pilger's product puzzles, in that respect.

No, the Majesty of the LAW. Even Leftie Princes are subject to it.

Before October 7, 2012. “The Julian Assange Story” appearing on channel 10. A promotional bombardment of The Julian Assange Story, Julian's image along with droning music, had been going on for a month or more before the program was shown on channel 10.

When the 2 hour “The Julian Assange Story” was shown only once after all those irritating promotional commercials. Myself having watched the program. I can safely destroy any ideas of teenage Julian Assange hacking into the CIA.

Young actor posing as Julian Assange was seen using a Commodore64, which would have been running on ASCII basic. A common store bought computer during the late half of the 1980s. The CIA would have been using a IBM computer, running on specially designed encryption software.

To think that if school student teenager Julian Assange could hack into the CIA at all, even with a stolen password, then the Soviets and every other enemy are easily doing the same. CIA passwords would be longer than a few letters, passwords would be meaningless and changed at least everyday. Entering password mistakes would be phone-line disconnected.
Military experts have been trying to invent new methods for encrypting messages for hundreds of years.

The Julian Assange Story is an invented story, attempting to provide anecdotal evidence that hacking is real to the not so intelligent people; and to possibly gain attention to whistle blowers by the deportation story, to the remaining people knowledgeable enough to think to doubt the Julian Assange story is true.

Media concerns of hackers is one more rolled over fear concerning anxiety distraction.

The name Assange has the first 3 letters being the same as first 3 letters in assassination. Threats posed to Assange in the Julian Assange story I believe are threating potential whistle blowers, not to expose to people that everything are manipulating lies.

The Wikileaks website may only expose embarrassing made up entertaining stories, having little difference to what the media do to entertain the masses.

I believe Julian Assange works for the establishment as an invented parable threatening to whistle blowers reminder news story.

Dear steve101

I believe the CIA are watching me as I hack into Obama's girlfriend's pad somewhere near planet Abbott. Can you distract them please as I flee?

It is my belief that Julian is the Pornographer of Truth. But let's keep it a secret OK?

Your

Most Umble Pazza

One cannot get over how Assange will look like the author Pilger in 30 years time. All that time in the Ecuadorian Embassy to enjoy. Surely Ecuador is enjoying every $$million in lost trade with the US it costs.

The slim, almost tanned, looks.

Can the mere fact of Assange's overweening seductive skills (rape?) of two Swedish women be allowed to deny the sacred Wiki movement their Godly Leader?

While I feel sorry for him, I find it foolish to do what Assange did, to risk his life so he can tell the details: "the American government killed this one here and tortured that one there..." - that's what governments are, and ever were, all about and the American government is no exception: they are predators so that's their nature and there is no need for any further research!

As there is nothing you and I or even Assange can do about them, why bother about the gory details?

Hi Yuyutsu

You are unfortunately right.

Who has Assange saved?

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have continued with or without Assange's, Manning's or Snowden's revelations.

Tribes in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria kill each other, no matter what Russia, China, the US and its assistant Australia do.

Maybe if Assange turned his talents to helping aid and charity movements his self-imprisonment would be better spent.

Regards

Pete

John Pilger's love affair with Wikileaks blinds him to the failure of Julian Assange the man. So much of this article is factually incorrect, out of context or plain hysterical. Short of the most extraordinary conspiracy between Sweden, UK, USA and Australia, it is entirely believable that instead the notoriously promiscuous Mr Assange really did upset two Swedish women he chose to sleep with and a pedantic Swedish police system has been caught in the headlights of a celebrity circus. Not the first man to deny sexual assault allegations. In a manner not dissimilar to the way Marcus Einfeld found himself jailed for two years over lying about a speeding ticket, Julian Assange's intransigence & hubris has found him on the wrong side of the law and inventing a conspirasy that is completely devoid of corroborating evidence. His army of zealous fans & a calculated social media campaign fits established fringe elements looking for an anti-hero. The actual facts of Assange in Sweden have now been spun so often & so effectively as to remove ready access to the actual truth. A cover up. The actual facts are condensed here for ready reference.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=17188
For further reference this website has collated all the real facts of Assange in Sweden
http://www.wikiwatch.org.uk/common-misconceptions/

John Pilger's love affair with Wikileaks blinds him to the failure of Julian Assange the man. So much of his article is factually incorrect, out of context or plain hysterical.

Short of the most extraordinary conspiracy between Sweden, UK, USA and Australia, it is entirely believable that instead the notoriously promiscuous Mr Assange really did upset two Swedish women he chose to sleep with and a pedantic Swedish police system has been caught in the headlights of a celebrity circus.

Not the first man to deny sexual assault allegations.

In a manner not dissimilar to the way Marcus Einfeld found himself jailed for two years over lying about a speeding ticket, Julian Assange's intransigence & hubris has found him on the wrong side of the law and inventing a conspirasy that is completely devoid of corroborating evidence. His army of zealous fans & a calculated social media campaign fits established fringe elements looking for an anti-hero.

The actual facts of Assange in Sweden have now been spun so often & so effectively as to remove ready access to the actual truth. A cover up.

The actual facts are condensed here for ready reference.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=17188

For further reference this website has collated all the real facts of Assange in Sweden
http://www.wikiwatch.org.uk/common-misconceptions/