Julian Assange and rough justice

Subject: Julian Assange and rough justice.

Julian Assange is being slowly drawn, kicking and screaming into the clutches of the American legal system. His extradition seems certain now his partition to have more time to prepare his defence has been turned down. It's the end stage of a 7 year long struggle to stay out of, first the Swedish courts on charges of sexual assault which were eventually dropped and then extradition to the USA to face charges of passing secret information to the public by publishing the information, (gleaned by Edward Snowden) through Wikileaks. 
Big Brother is Watching You was the chilling summation of George Orwell's book 1984.  It presented a world where the state had its fingers into the independence of all its citizens by monitoring their  communication and if it found, individuals who stepped out of line cast them into cell 101 to begin a process of re-education. 
The book was precedent in its foretelling of public surveillance on a massive scale, it described in general what has come to pass in the particular,  that we are all spied on continuously by the state. We know our emails are scanned and our phone conversations monitored by huge computer driven data bases continually on the lookout for indicators for further investigation. 
Typing Assange may be one of them since he was the one who, along with the whistle blower Edward Snowden had upset the security hive and caused the security wasps to seek revenge. It was not what was revealed that was wrong, far from it it was the crime of letting us know that we were being spied upon that was so heinous to the authorities.
Snowden sought sanctuary in Russia a state not known for its citizen freedom but at least a state powerful enough to stand up to the might of the American CIA. Unfortunately Assange had no such bolt hole and instead resorted to the protection of English justice and when that failed, fled for 7 years into the refuge of the Ecuadorian Embassy. Only recently was he forced out in a deal done between the authorities here and the Embassy. 
Having been recused  from having to answer the claims of assault in Sweden he was now faced with the much more serious prospect of facing an American justice system not renowned for its even handedness, particularly when the perceived crime was against a state authority. The power of the legal system in the US to incarcerate or execute people, sometimes innocent people is legend, years in jail  on the supposition that they have committed a crime, crimes which fail to come to court, the accused are thrown into hell holes of brutality, to await their court date which might take years. No wonder Julian Assange's health I'd failing. 
Remember the charge, "to wilfully publish information about what the State was doing with our private correspondence". This was not some Drug Baron exporting misery to millions of our people, rather the reverse he was exposing what was an illegal action perpetrated on behalf of the State. He was revealing an uncomfortable fact that Big Brother plays by his own rules and books no challenge. 
It also revealed how acquiescent  we are in this country when our Cousins demand we obey. How high is the pathetic response to the instruction, 'jump' and it is so at odds when we ask for reciprocity, as in the recent case of the American woman who, driving on the wrong side of the road killed one of our own citizens on road in England, she fled the country pleading diplomatic immunity (she was the wife of an American who worked in the Embassy) but the Americans are under no illusions she is American and will be protected.
This was a crime which needed adjudication because someone had died,  in Assange's case there were no spy rings revealed, no spies in danger of their life because their cover was blown. Instead the spy ring was the United States Government and its commissioned spying on all of us.