Escaping Justice (25/06/13)
The increasingly ridiculous Julian Assagne, founder of Wikileaks, is still holed up at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, having fled there a year ago to escape being extradited to Sweden where he faces two separate charges of sexual assault.
A meeting was held recently between the UK Foreign Secretary - William Hague - and Ecuadorean officials following which Ecuadorean foreign minister - Ricardo Patino - announced that Assange is prepared to stay in his bolt hole for at least five years.
For some reason, Ecuador seems to believe that Assange is entitled to claim asylum when, in fact, he jumped bail in the UK, having lied about his intentions to abide by a court ruling to face the music, if his extradition to Sweden was subsequently found to be lawful and justified.
Which it duly was, but instead of justice for the two women in Sweden who have complained about Assange - what we have is a complete farce with a supposedly friendly country in Ecuador thumbing its nose, diplomatically speaking, at both Sweden and the UK.
Offering asylum to people in need of protection has a noble history down the ages, but it was never intended as a safe sanctuary for people suspected of criminal behaviour.
Sweden, of course, has a good track record on upholding human rights that would compare favourably with most countries in the world.
For example I'm pretty sure Sweden would knock Ecuador into a cocked hat over human rights - yet Foreign Minister Patino is prepared to make a fool of himself by arguing that the whole business represents a "total injustice" to Julian Assange.
If I were the UK Government I would let Mr Assange stew in his little hideaway for as long as he likes, because he's bound to get fed up sooner or later.
In the meantime I can't imagine it's a whole lot of fun and I suspect that in some strange way Ricardo and Julian probably deserve each other.
New Assange Lawsuit (9 October 2011)
The latest edition of Private Eye does a great hatchet job on the notorious narcissist and weirdo - Julian Assange.
The magazine pokes fun at the self-serving comments made by Assange in his auto-biography - in which he suggests that the two Swedish women who acccused him of sexual assault - did so out of spite.
Because he is - or was - a chauvinist pig and not a thoughtful boyfriend.
What a nutter!
NEW ASSANGE LAWSUIT
by Our Media Correspondent
Jonathan Wikileake
"Julian Assange today announced his determination to sue the author of the new book about him, Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography.
A spokesman for Assange, who looked very similar to himself, told journalists, "Mr Assange has had enoughof these vile slurs against his charatcer and to say that women accused him of rape because he didn't phone them is clearly the mark of a diseased mind.
"I - by which I mean my client, Mr Assange - will be suing JUlian Assange as aggresivelky as possible, to show that the good name of Assange will not stand for these vile slurs about himself."
The author, Julian Assange, is said to be considering a counter-suit based on his allegations that Assange is part of a Jewish conspiracy.
If found guilty of defamation and bearing false witness, Mr Assange will either have to pay himself £10 million for loss of earnings and emotional damge, or go on a four month journalism course in AMerica, depending on whether he is judged by the Crown or Andreas Whittam-Smith."
