Arrest Warrant for Julian Assange

[cemaphonic]

17. Are you a relative newcomer to the Assange flamefests?

The whole case kinda flew under my radar until he fled to the embassy last summer, and provoked an interesting diplomatic situation. The threads back then were pretty much the same, (and camps had clearly been drawn up for some time already) with the Assange defenders just flat out ignoring anything to do with inconveniences like Swedish legal procedure, or the findings of the UK extradition court, while spinning fantasies about how the US would go to any lengths to get their dirty hands on him, but can somehow only do so by maneuvering him into a Swedish prison. (and yes, with the occasional detours into calling the women lying sluts.)

I liked your OP in General. It will probably help to steer newcomers away from some of the more blatant myths that the Assange fanclub promote, but the prolific posters in those threads won't be swayed by reason ever.