For goodness sake Alan you have missed the point again.
He did not commit an offense against US law as he was neither in the US
when the offense occurred and he is not a US citizen !

Extradition is used to return a person accused of a criminal act in
the country to which extradition is requested.
It is to prevent criminals escaping justice by fleeing to another country !

Got it ?

Assange is neither a journalist nor a publisher.

If there is anyone out to get us they are among Julian's supporters. Labor was all set to light a bonfire of persecution should they have been elected. Personally I felt uneasy about Shorten's comments on "keyboard warriors". Those poor uni students went through hell under 18c, yet many on the left strongly defend the law and such persecution.

The great strength of a nation is the tolerance and friendship that bind us. Vindictive persecution should have no place. My sense of compassion is touched by films like Mad Bastards and Maudie, not by precious ponces like Assange. I hope he rots in jail.

Oh, I see, so you think because you are not a citizen of the country whose laws and security you flout? You are untouchable?

That means those war crimes committed by Nazis in Russia should be allowed to escape Russian or any justice, and the horrors of the Japanese prison camps by Japanese nationals in Burma and Malay etc-etc should be exempted from any consequences?

I agree Assange was not on location at the time e broke USA laws and compromised their security and may have caused the death or torture of many Afghani citizens as surely if he himself had pulled the trigger or the electrical circuit breaker etc!

Everything this worm has done since jumping bail tells he seriously believes laws are for other folks, just not for him and his reprehensible cohort of criminal hackers!

As do the likeminded grubs who defend him and his ILLEGAL activities!

Do the crime do the time, no ifs, buts or maybes!

Imagine, if he'd fronted up he could have served all his tie by now and a free man living a free life with all of thee lessons on acceptable adult behaviour behind him.

Everything he did was with his eyes open and aware of the consequences!

What other possible explanation is there for his attempt to thwart justice by hiding out in an embassy hostile to US laws and security requirements!

Personally, I would have escorted him to the airport, and loaded him on to the first available flight to Ecuador. With the proviso his Australian passport was forfeit! And he could just cool his heels in Ecuador, exiled there for the term of his natural life!
Alan B.

Here's a link to countries that criminalize homosexuality.

Does anyone think that an Australian homosexual who criticizes their laws and claims to have had sexual relations with one of their male citizens should be extradited to face their justice?
He has clearly broken their law and, what's more, admits it.
http://76crimes.com/76-countries-where-homosexuality-is-illegal/

This writer has a point: if someone whom we support, who is on our side, commits crimes like rape, since he is one of ours, he should be given either a soft sentence or let off entirely. It stands to reason. This is done in many societies. True, they're usually utterly corrupt, more like Mafia than democracies, but still, in this case, what's he actually done ? Shagged a couple of tarts, who were gagging for it anyway, then chickened out ? Where's the harm in that ?

Let's move on, put all this behind us and get on with the business of transforming the world into ...... ummm ...... into .... a better society ? No society at all, since 'society' is a bankrupt bourgeois concept to be overthrown in the march through the institutions ? In the overall scheme of world transformation and saving the planet, what's a couple of floozies ?