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“the more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership….”  Julian Assange

Well, Julian Assange is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the object of an international tug of war.  I’m not exactly sure about the connection to Ecuador, but I am reminded, somehow, of Bobby Fischer being shuttled around, from the Philippines to Japan to Iceland.  It’s probably an unfair comparison.

Julian Assange

Sure, Assange and Fischer are both weird geniuses, and both have (had) a way of pissing a lot of people off.  They both have (had) political viewpoints that are well outside the mainstream, but Assange’s is that government secrecy is a cover for government evildoing and exposing their nefariousness is a noble calling, and Fischer’s was that the Jews were to blame for everything.

So, similarities and differences, but you would think that when the embassy of Ecuador in London says “Hey, we’ll take him in our country” that the British would just let him go.  After all, he’s charged with a sex crime in Sweden that wouldn’t be considered a sex crime anywhere else.  (He didn’t use a condom.  When the girl questioned him about it, he made the somewhat creepy comment “The only thing I’m wearing is you,” but that was good enough for her at the time.  Then she found out that he’d been shagging her friend, too, and that’s when she went to the police.)  In fact, you’d think the Swedes would be over it by now.  Have either of the girls tested positive for HIV?  Are either of them pregnant?

But Britain is determined to arrest him the moment he sets foot outside the embassy, the Swedes are determined to bring him to trial but they won’t provide a guarantee that they won’t just turn him over to the Americans, and there’s very good reason to believe that the Americans just want to lock him up in the calaboose forever and ever, because they can do that now and, in fact, are doing it to Bradley Manning.

Does anybody really think that the British would risk the worst confrontation with a South American country since the whole brouhaha over the Falklands over a silly little sex charge?

No, there’s no doubt about it.  The power structure is scared to death of Julian Assange.  They have secrets that would make Mitt Romney’s tax returns look tame.