Very nicely put, Steve, thanks for taking such care… Every media personality who "calls out" Assange, i.e. prejudging, without at the very least simultaneously calling out the egregious and heinous evils of the USA empire and its organs of power such as the CIA, NSA, military etc, is a literal shill and tool for the US empire. Such people are prima facie (on the face of it, obviously) evidently compromised, either by employment, by blackmail, by such blindness as demands utter condemnation and excision from the public discourse, or by some other hidden means. A hot topic evidently: Assange Prosecution Will Focus On Chelsea Manning Era Releases, Not DNC Emails https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-25/assange-prosecution-will-focus-che... Extra-territoriality of "laws" as claimed by the USA espionage banking and military complex and their (!!) courts, is unlawful on principle. Every purported authority exercising power sans righteousness, is prima facie corrupt. Retrospective/ retroactive laws are unlawful on principle. A jury of "peers" which is actually comprised of the employees, ex-employees, spouses and etc of the CIA, NSA, MIC, DOD (etc) is a prima facie biased and prejudiced jury and can never carry the weight of righteousness nor the gravity of justice, merely some farse of "legal process", injustice, and a manifest evil towards a fellow man, in this case Julian Assange. For starters Assange is an Australian citizen, so his peers would literally have to be Australians at the very least, and perhaps by consent he could agree to have his "peers" include e.g. some of the folks round these parts, John Young perhaps, and or principled journalists (not the many faced and usually lying and deceiving CIA plants who dominate the legacy stream media outlets of course). Just as Colin Powell waved a vial of sand murmering "weapons of mass destruction" to justify a war destroying Iraq (which was supposedly a war against some cave dweller in Afghanistan - Obama Bin Laden) we now have pure revenge campaign against Assange for publishing some facts, embarrassing to the empire but which the public had a right to know and Assange had a right to publish. The Collateral Murder video (USA helicopter gunship gunning down unarmed journalists in Baghdad), and the embarrassment thereof, is the true cause for this steamroller of evil and unrighteous condemnation against Assange. One could take a random stab and guess that Vault7 and vault8 possibly has something to do with the CIA (etc) literal vendetta against Assange too: https://wikileaks.org/vault8/ The (USA) empire is embarrassed and wants revenge by way of making an example of "the suffering and punishment of Julian Assange". Americans, this is your empire.