| I resent being made to support unsupportable people, dammit. |
 I resent being made to support unsupportable people, dammit.
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Aug. 16th, 2012 @ 12:08 pm 
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I really, really resent being put in the position of feeling like I should stand up for Julian Assange.
The guy is, at best, a power tool. His is the sine qua non of Backpfeifengesichts. His face is in dire, desperate need of at least one fist in it, possibly many, and I can easily believe that he is guilty of the crimes Sweden is trying to allege he committed.
However.
Every single thing about the way his case is playing out is dodgy as hell, and Sweden, it seems, has already handed someone over to US custody who went on to immediate rendition.
If the prosecution against him had played out normally, instead of seeming ridiculously politically motivated, it would be different, but... it didn't. Pretty much everything the governments pursuing him have done looks dodgy. Since when can you not interview someone unless you've cuffed them?
And now the UK is even making not-very-veiled threats against Ecuador, for offering him asylum, which... seriously. Violating international treaties over him, and it's not a grudge thing? Roman Polanski didn't get chased this way, and he unquestionably deserved it more.
If the rule of law and the principles of justice we attempt to uphold are to mean anything, they have to apply to anyone, even someone as intrinsically unlikable as Julian Assange. His very image makes my teeth itch, and yet I yearn to fight, on principle, for his right to a fair trial.
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Oh thank god, so I'm not the only one.
Like, I would completely believe that he is guilty of the crimes he's accused of, but I also wasn't born yesterday and this shit is HIGHLY IRREGULAR. I feel like the judicial bodies in question just got really lucky, but they're going to fuck it up entirely if they carry on like this.
I'd also rather have seen him go to trial for actually committing the crime of rape, than for being an accused rapist who's mostly just in trouble for being a whistleblower. Like you say: Roman Polanski didn't get treated like this. Neither did a million other rapists who never made the news in any way, shape or form.
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