Julian Assange

Subject: Julian Assange. 

We have news and we have false news but we don't have is any way to define, which is which.
Julian Assange is being kept in Belmarsh Jail awaiting a decision about his extradition to America to be tried for releasing information to the world regarding Americas wrong doing. Assange was  initially arrest for a sexual claim made by a woman in Sweden, a claim which was eventually dropped once the British police had secured him from the security of the Ecuadorian Embassy. Now having technically served his time for claiming immunity in the embassy he is still held not on Swedish charges but on the say so of the Americans. What happened to our once proud claim to being incorruptible, untainted by pressure from other governments who might not be so interested in the finer points of law and who have some of the most draconian sentencing regimes when compared to ours and the European model.
Guantanamo Bay Prison may be out of the limelight but it still incarcerates men for unspecified periods of time, without trial, kept in medieval conditions, using water boarding as part of their interrogation methods, (a euphemism for torture). It's a cold fact that the Americans, by still practicing the death penalty and having life sentences which mean a lifetime spent in prison, rank with the Arabs, the Russians and the Chinese in practicing, not only the barbaric act of 'state murder' but incarceration without preroll until the person dies.
Is it any wonder Julian Assange is terrified of being handed over to the US. His crime after all was to reveal the truth and that from an elitists governing class's point of view is untenable with so much to hide.
How can our judiciary with all its perfunctory checks and balances stand by and let this happen. Is it purely political, part of the Brexit package our subservience to the Yanks who won't let the wife of one of their diplomats come over and face trial for a hit and run killing. Are we so supine, so lily-liveried so in hock to a trade deal that we fail on the most elementary value which we used to proudly stand for, our unequivocal belief in the supremacy of the law, a system of jurisprudence we pioneered back way before America was discovered. Have we no backbone, must we value everything in terms of the profit we may receive, do we simple know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.