Police stakeout bill for Assange tops £1m as it costs £11,000 a DAY to ensure he doesn't flee ...

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43. You don't seem to notice Assange's stories change with the fickle winds:

the women were just angry that he had gone to bed with both of them, or they were radical feminists, or they were upset he hadn't called from the train, or they were CIA agents

Assange knows perfectly well that the Swedish prosecutors currently expect to charge him: he left Sweden instantly when the prosecutors made that clear to his lawyer. Then he led the prosecutors to believe he would return to Sweden on a particular date: and then he blew them off. That's why there's a court-ordered arrest warrant in Sweden, that predates the European Arrest Warrant: and Assange knows about that warrant because he's challenged that Swedish warrant twice in Swedish courts. But he continues to misrepresent the situation: he's organized his supporters to say he's only accused of having a condom break during sex, when in fact the UK courts found that he's accused of rape; he's organized his supporters to say he's only wanted in Sweden for questioning, when in fact the UK courts found that he's wanted for purposes of prosecution

There's not the slightest evidence to support the Assangists' crackpot theories that the US is trying to get him sent to Sweden so the US can grab him from there and send him to GITMO for torture and execution: to read the news as supporting such a theory requires one to believe in a gigantic conspiracy between Sweden, the UK, and the US