Assange Exposed!

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange yesterday appeared on the balcony of Ecuador's London embassy to make a statement to the press regarding the latest developments in his attempts to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex offence charges. After denouncing the US government once more as a totalitarian regime with no regard for human rights, the Australian fugitive proceeded to unzip his flies and whip out his genitals. "See what I think of your trumped up sex charges," he shouted as he waved his genitalia at the crowd gathered beneath the balcony. "As for you William Hague - suck on my baldy man, baldy!" Following this last insult to the UK Foreign Secretary, who had threatened to misinterpret an obscure British law in order to forcibly enter the Ecuadorean embassy where Assange has been claiming asylum for the past two months, he turned around, dropped his trousers and mooned at the TV cameras.

All of which is lot more entertaining than what actually happened yesterday. Assange rolled out the usual rhetoric against his 'enemies', but still left us none the wiser about those Swedish sex allegations. I'm afraid that I have a real problem with his refusal to answer the charges. All of the stuff he and his supporters keep churning out about a conspiracy to have him extradited from Sweden to the US to be put on trial for the publishing of classified data, increasingly sound like bollocks to me. Why on earth would the US conspire with Sweden to cook up false charges against Assange in order to get him to get heir hands on him? Surely it would be easier to extradite him directly from the UK? After all, the US seems to have little trouble in gaining the extradition of assorted alleged terrorists and copyright violators from this country to stand trial in US courts. It just makes no sense. Sadly, the longer Assange tries to avoid answering the charges in a court of law, the more suspicious I become that there might be some substance to them. Also, if he wants to seek asylum, why go to the Ecuador, a country not renowned for its human rights record? Why not socialist Venezuela? Or Cuba? But worst of all, this continuing circus simply diverts attention from the real mission of Wikileaks, which isn't to boost Assange's ego, but to hold the powerful to account by exposing their misdemeanours.