- Assange flees to embassy and stays there for 7 years
- They'll never turn him over the police
- Assange is turned over to the police
- They'll never extradite him
- If they'll extradite him and he'll be acquitted...
Sure.
Really, if Assange is extradited to the United States he will be convicted and while he is in jail there will be many new reasons found to keep him in jail, in as uncomfortable a way as possible. The US is pretty vengeful, especially against those who make their wrong-doings plain as day. Fortunately at least in a US jail he'll be safe from suicide. Oh, wait.
Don't get me wrong, if I were Assange I would fight this extradition to the bitter end. Pretrial detention alone is an incredibly harsh punishment (and why he won the first extradition case).
Despite the US's vengefulness, Chelsea Manning is now free, if not entirely left to her devices, and she's the one who actually leaked the information that Assange is being indicted in reference to. Reality Winner is in a halfway house now. Things are not so bleak as you picture here. Both of them had plea deals, and although Manning was put on trial, it was not in front of a jury. We desperately need a reckoning to decide if we're a country that will imprison people for speech.
- they'll never prosecute him
- case gets dropped
- case gets re-opened
- they'll never arrest him
- Assange is arrested
- they'll never extradite him
- Assange flees to embassy and stays there for 7 years
- They'll never turn him over the police
- Assange is turned over to the police
- They'll never extradite him
- If they'll extradite him and he'll be acquitted...
Sure.
Really, if Assange is extradited to the United States he will be convicted and while he is in jail there will be many new reasons found to keep him in jail, in as uncomfortable a way as possible. The US is pretty vengeful, especially against those who make their wrong-doings plain as day. Fortunately at least in a US jail he'll be safe from suicide. Oh, wait.