I see reports that Julian Assange has been freed at Stanstead Airport
in the UK and is on the way home.
Has not been reported elsewhere as far as I know.
No doubt there will be some who who think he got off lightly.
The main point however is:
How can someone who was not in the US be charged with a crime and
who did not actually commit the crime be charged with the crime ?
He received information and published it.
So did many newspapers and TV organisations.
Why were they not charged ?
Do not drive an American made car over the limit or you might be
charged by the California Highway Patrol, (Joke) just for the humourless.

There's footage of him boarding a flight. Remember all that footage of him barely able to walk, pushed around in wheel-chairs because he was so beaten down by his imprisonment. Well he just strode onto the flight home looking the picture of health. It seems the previous pictures of an invalid were just part of the charade.

Assange's crime wasn't that he received information and published it. That isn't a crime. What he was charged with was facilitating and participating in the theft of the information. That's the crime that he just got away with. He's out on a plea deal whereby he will plead guilty to at least one charge but be given credit for the time in a British prison to negate any time in a US prison.

Not to mention the couple of rapes in Sweden that he got away with as well.

Effectively he got five years in prison for destroying a lot of lives. At least the time he spent evading justice in the embassy wasn't counted. Personally, I think he will re-offend.

Blessed be God who frees prisoners - thanks be unto Him alone!
May He free all prisoners soon in answer to the prayers of those who love and care for them, especially the Israeli hostages that languish in Gaza.

Thanks Bezza for this news.

The deal has not yet been finalised with the US Department
of Justice . There's a hearing to go through in the
Northern Mariana Islands - a territory of the US in the
Western Pacific - but after that presumably Julian Assange
can fly home to Australia.

The man's been the target of a very negative campaign by
US officials at the highest levels. Assange has spent 5 years
in jail. He's been accused of all sorts of things. From
computer hacking to showing the world the horrors of the
US war in Iraq, to rape charges (withdrawn by Swedish police).

The publication
of disclosed documents as part of his work with Wikileaks
this activity mirrors conduct that
investigative journalists undertake regularly in their
professional capacity. This right should be protected.

In any case - Julian Assange will now be free - at long last.
Something for which his family, friends, and supporters are
extremely grateful.

Yuyutsu,

Let us pray for all the innocent victims - Israeli
and Palestinian and especially for a peace settlement
to be reached sooner than later. The release of hostages
is vital, but so is the cessation of the destructive
bombardment and refusal to give up control of the
occupied territories.