Assange to UN: 'It is time for the US to cease its persecution of WikiLeaks'

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51. Sigh! Because he appealed the request for extradition

Had he not done that, he would have been handed over immediately. Maybe you don't like due process, but I'm very fond of it myself, especially in a case like this which was suspect from the beginning.

Meantime, he was held by the British authorities FOR Sweden in accordance with the EU agreement among member states. He was jailed, then released on bond, restricted from movement without notifying the court.

That Sweden refused to take the necessary step to file their case, is not the fault of the Brits or of Assange. Throughout this entire process they refused to do that. That is the main problem for them now. They simply have run out of excuses.

Sweden got what they wanted, because of that agreement. And he was right to fear the US, as we now know. As a designated 'Enemy of the State' he is now in mortal danger of being treated like Al Queda members under our current, shocking and egregious laws which gives one person the right to kill anyone designated as an enemy of the state.

I guess you doubted that also, but now there is no doubt. What an embarrassment to this democracy. To designate an award winning journalist an 'enemy of the state'. This will go down in history as one of the worst abuses of Bush's policies as feared by most of us when they were first implemented. But right now, that does not make Assange any safer than Awlaki was.