My reply to the notion that Assange should submit to Swedish justice

Somehow I was unable to add my comment as a reply to this blog: http://pme200.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/assanges-balcony-speech.html

So here's my reply as my own blog:

You invoke the judicial process yet defy one of its main principles: in criticising Assange’s refusal to express remorse, you presume that he’s guilty until proved innocent; then you deliver an ad hominem attack, a ploy which only ever succeeds in discrediting the author's own argument. It’s like saying “He’s guilty because I don’t like him, and I don’t like him because he’s guilty”.

You and other Assange detractors follow the logic that only a guilty pervert would be afraid to face the Swedish justice system, and that people who want to see him escape to Ecuador are conspiracy theorist nutjobs so blinded by their political fanaticism that they think even rape can be brushed aside in deference to their cause. That makes Assange a rapist and his supporters into rape apologists. That should shut them up, right?

But if we consider the other possibility - that Assange is not guilty of rape, then, knowing this as a fact, it would be understandable for him to think that the attempt to extradite him to Sweden is no more than a witch hunt and that the rape allegations don't merit a mention except to acknowledge that a smear campaign is being conducted against him.

Wikileaks has exposed the US government’s contempt for due process, international justice, truth, human rights, the sovereignty of nation states and the right to life of its opponents. Assange has helped to expose mass murder. Isn’t it possible that those same mass-murderers are trying to determine his fate? Wikileaks has already proved what evil these people are capable of, and Assange should know more than anyone whether this is about a sexual assault or a government’s track record for perverting international justice.

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