light which will allow Sweden to extradite him to the USA. . The Pinochet point is a very powerful one. . Shameful, disgraceful, sickening. Conchis, What an utter tripe and hollow contention? Despite the fact I care very little for Assange but your "two good people" are indeed so good that they lay on their complaints for months and years. Then deciding to go to the police. , Further you seem to be mistaking seeking sanctuary in a church with political asylum in an embassy. In simpler words Assange is being politically persecuted in the "freedom loving" West and he has had to run to third world for asylum and that is the shame of it all, that evidently your emotional outburst does not take any account of. I think we should also remember that both of the women that Assange slept with were not unwilling companions of his. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDaUGB3sj\\... There was no rape. It's just a way to shoot the messenger. The implications at least for British diplomats abroad are ominous and. in a worse case scenario, we might even be witnessing the death knell of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. http://sansculottism.wordpress.com/ "it would be wholly wrong to claim that the British neocons need any encouragement to act against international law. . they simply dont." Wendy. . Key point. As I wrote earlier on the recent 'anaconda' thread, they invaded Iraq against international law -- after that, the Rubicon dried up. 100,000 hits in 100 minutes probably