Shitbag behaviour for sure but not criminal under UK law.
Don’t know if you read the court judgement that I linked to, but if you’re saying stuff like this, then I guess not. He used the UK court system to avoid being extradited to Sweden so they could question him about a rape charge that the Swedish authorities charged him with. Unsuccessfully every time. He’s not charged with rape under UK law, and really? Are you absolutely sure you want to go into to bat for a man who’s claim for a decade and a half is trying to convince you that what he did wasn’t technically rape, despite the fact that even the Supreme Court has effectively said to him “well, we disagree, but if you think so, go to Sweden and defend yourself”. In the post-#metoo era how does that feel? Defending a douche-bag for starting to **** some-one when they were asleep, really? ‘Cos that’s the hill you’re dying on here.
And to make it slightly ickier (if that was actually possible), that’s the reason he used to avoid having his day in court in the US system, that y’know; Chelsea Manning took her hit for, plead public interest and went to Levenworth, thus proving to everyone that she has in fact got bigger balls than Assange.
But of course all that is smoke and mirrors, the reason I reckon Assange won’t go anywhere near a US court is that all sorts of shit he doesn’t want in the public domain would be revealed. All his contact with the Russian secret service, all his dealings with Israel Shamir. All that shit comes out. There’s nothing worse than a grifter who pretends to be righteous.
