Letting him go will create a precedent that cannot stand! He must stand trial as a hacker and not a bona fide journalist for which he has no formal qualifications or union membership.

Sure, he operated a site called WikiLeaks, and the site exposed war crimes that the US won't admit to or allow their military personal to answer for in the Haig.

Julian was the first to publish and as such he allowed others to republish stolen official secrets.

And that makes him responsible for all of the expose.

This bail jumper did the crime now he must pay the price, less time officially served. Which by the way, cannot include his self-imprisonment!

Do the crime, do the time and applicable to you and me. No one is above the law! End of story. Not you, me nor even the president of the USA!

Had he manned up at the start? He may have done very time in a soft prison farm or some such. And be free and clear now. Or officially pardoned?
Alan B.

Hear hear Alan! The reason the process continues is because Assange has been doing all he can to evade justice. As far as I am aware, murder and manslaughter aren't subject to a statute of limitations, and it's no surprise to me that Binoy makes no mention of Assange's many victims.

To hell with scrapping Australia Day celebrations on the 26th, Australia should be banning Julian Assange.

Bugger Assange.

Julian Assange was neither ever an American citizen, nor been in America when committing his "crimes" against American law, nor did his actions break the laws of the countries he was residing in while committing these "crimes".

This precedent should make each of us scared to leave Australia, even on holiday or to visit friends and family overseas - because every Australian probably breaks the laws of some other country or another several times a day.

In the same manner that Assange is being extradited to America, Australian women holidaying in the beaches of Thailand or Japan could be extradited to Saudi Arabia and flogged there for breaking its dress code and modesty laws.

That America failed to keep its dark war secrets from being discovered, is its own fault alone.

We also suffer enough from American tyranny when, for example, Australian banks are intimidated into bothering local Australian customers so they can serve American interests, or when in Australia I buy religious Hindu DVD's from India, made in India, but am forced to see ugly American CIA warnings before I can start watching.

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!

"Julian Assange was neither ever an American citizen, nor been in America when committing his "crimes" against American law, nor did his actions break the laws of the countries he was residing in while committing these "crimes"."

According to who? Judge Yuyutsu, omnipotent international legal authority? Assange has had every means and opportunity accorded to him by the British legal system, funded by his supporters. That legal process has determined that he can be extradited to face trial for his alleged crimes in the United States.

The British legal system originated nearly a millennium ago after the Norman conquest of 1066, yet you think you know better. I'd guess that you have an ego nearly as big as the great Jules himself.

«The British legal system originated nearly a millennium ago»

During which slavery and torture were common, during which witches and Catholics were burned and Jews expelled, during which those opposed to the regime were sentenced to be "quartered, hanged, their private parts cut off and intestines burned", during which people were sent for 14 years of hard-labour in Australia for stealing a piece of bread when hungry...