[FrankenTan]

As a Swede, I'm going to have to disappoint you.

The police have been proven to be rather.. sub-par in politically-loaded cases.

An example: Claiming Peter Sunde wrote the pirate bay search engine when the name and phone-number of the programmer who did was in the sourcecode on one of the seized harddrives.

The prosecutor in Assange's case has also been questioned by peers and media alike for questionable behaviour and decisions from day 1 of Assange's case.

He offered to give statements and be questioned in Sweden, and his lawyer asked the authorities for permission to leave Sweden. They declined his offers, and gave Assange permission to leave the country.

It's not being handled very well at all.

[hugh3]

This doesn't really have anything to do with this case.

Look, there's a woman somewhere in Sweden who claims that Julian Assange raped her. Either he did, or he didn't. If he did, he should be hung from the tallest tree. If he didn't, she should be hung from the tallest tree. But it's an extremely serious charge either way.

[rhizome]

as long as someone gets hung, right? i mean, let's be clear about our priorities.