Posted: Feb 12, 2016 10:20 am
Byron wrote: he brought it on himself, and can't use it as an excuse to evade prosecution in Sweden.
Is it any different for any other person seeking political asylum?
Byron wrote: Assange, by contrast, kicked back in a mansion, and the idea of kindly professors and retirees playing bounty hunter is a Daily Show skit in action.
Those kindly professors also knew the risks, and presumably thought that either a very weak case would be dropped or they would lose their money in defence of a cause they believed in.
That these people have lost money is entirely beside the point off this topic.
If the prosecution had done their job there would have been no reason for that to happen.
Do you at least acknowledge more that Assange was in continuous detention at least through remand and bail?