Julian Assange arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London
Since 2012 he was attempting to avoid extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault that have since been dropped.
Now, he's up on US federal conspiracy charges related to one of the largest ever leaks of government secrets and the UK will decide whether he is extradited for conspiracy with former US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning to download classified databases.
Normally I'm a straight law and order "you do the crime you do the time" kind of guy.
However, given the pardon the brigand Obama gave to this sick bird Bradley Manning I'm reticent to wish to see Assange prosecuted on those charges Manning escaped ... at the hands of a stupid chief executive the ungrateful wretch had the audacity to bad mouth public and messy afterwards.
Leave it to the United States to cultivate a situation so screwed up as to allow the wrong person to be prosecuted.
Manning is the criminal here. Assange was merely practicing journalism.