the empire will dish out its horrible consequences for actions which
Until you dish out better stronger faster change actions.
Virgil
The Virgil case hasn't even started, it could get very big.
The dignity of the West demands such compensation ultimately be paid to Julian Assange.
What dignity? The West (US primarily, UK and other lapdogs next) has none left, or cares. If the US etc had to compensate all the peoples it's immorally fucked over, jailed, thieved, tortured, and murdered in its history, it'd go bankrupt, doubly over what it already is, they don't even have enough trees to print all that paper money. You'd have to see what these countries have in reserve to pay out millions upon millions of civil suits, half to their own citizens. Now maybe if all the people in it's government were forced to sell their own birth certificates off to the highest bidder... :)