How come US media outlets like the New York Times aren't being prosecuted? Among other things they showed the video of civilians being shot by a US helicopter. As we know here the military brass don't like being exposed for covering war crimes, in the ADF case the shooting of unarmed Afghans. That indicates that the govt won't lift a finger to help Assange.

If Assange has to serve 175 years they should get his parole ready. The parole officer should be appointed now and a retraining program organised for his release.

"Superpower", "retainer", what a load of old cobblers! One civilised country in the Anglosphere is requesting the extradition from another civilised country in the Anglosphere of an unsavoury character, who will get a fair trial.

It's not as if some jay walker was being extradited from Hong Kong to Beijing for execution.

Assange's "failing health" is not an issue - if it exists at all. He is accused of serious charges, and must face the music.

#1/ He wasn't arbitrarily detained, but sort voluntary refuge in an Ecuadorian embassy for the last seven years, of his own violation.

#2/ The so-called psychological ill health!? Easily feigned by a compulsive liar!

#3/ His physical health condition may have deteriorated somewhat, for lack of vitamin D? The consequence of living without any worthwhile exposure to sunlight for seven (self-imposed) long years and remediated by the same, daily!

Everything this creature has done to date is/has been done to avoid being held to account for the foreseeable consequences for/of his own actions!

Not buying this BS for one second!
Alan B.

ASANGE'S HUNGER STRIKE - HIS MAIN HEALTH PROBLEM?

Oh poor Julian! First he blamed Democracies for his decision to imprison himself for 7 years in the Ecuadorian Embassy, London. Now he's blaming Democracies for his apparent hunger strike.

Seems Assange is painting himself as a Political Prisoner by exploiting the playbook of the late IRA gunman Bobby Sands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands

1. In 1981 Bobby and his IRA boys in a UK prison painted their cell walls with their own s--t.

Julian Act 1. Assange poo paints likewise in the Ecuadorian Embassy.

2. Bobby and further IRA prisoners then started hunger strikes "dramatically lost weight" thereby killing themselves

Julian Act 2. Has Assange "dramatically lost weight" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48459760 due to a self inflicted Hunger Strike following the Sands IRA playbook?

What in fact emerges from the Julian Assange case, is the scales of truth and justice further tip towards injustice and the free march of the criminal, engaged in his role as politician.

Assange may have imagined himself as a modern day White Knight, but alas a knight is not a knight without permission. Not ever!

Dan.