IMO the denial of Sweden to guarantee Assange that he will not be sent to the US is enough to

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166. He sought asylum in the Ecuadoran Embassy and in the expert opinions of

people such as Naomi Wolf to Legal experts from Latin America to Australia, to whistle-blowers and journalists and political dissidents across the globe, he did precisely the right thing as his freedom and even more concerning, his life are definitely in danger.

When elected officials of a country as powerful as this call for the assassination of a journalist such as Assange, a country that now has a reputation of assassinating even its own citizens, and when one of this country's most notorious criminal operatives, Karl Rove, is deeply embedded in the Government of Sweden, a country which has already shamed itself by rendering two human beings on behalf of the US to Egypt for torture, to even consider trusting either of these two governments to care about his human rights or the rule of law could only be described as massively foolish. And like him or hate him, he is no fool.

He did exactly the right thing. We were all hoping, that is those of us who for ten years now have watched the decline of this country regarding the rule of law and human rights, that this is what he would do. Kudos to Ecuador for standing up for freedom of speech and democracy. For teaching the hypocritical Western nations who mouth off about 'democracy' while violating human rights all over the globe, what democracy looks like.