UK: Julian Assange dangerously close to extradition following High Court rejection of appeal. Really!

The strange and celebrated media darling Julian Assange (born 1971) is in the news again! I meant to blog about this phony celebrity for some time, but apparently never got around it.

Looking at his biography, any person with some common sense should hesitate to praise this man as a hero of some sort:

1. "He became involved in the hacker community and was convicted for hacking in 1996.". He was already 26 years old at the time.
2. "In November 2010, Sweden issued a European arrest warrant for Assange over allegations of sexual assault ... After losing his battle against extradition to Sweden, he breached bail and took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in June 2012."
3. "On 11 April 2019, Assange's asylum was withdrawn following a series of disputes with Ecuadorian authorities. The [British] police were invited into the embassy and he was arrested. He was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison."
4. The Manning WikiLeaks in 2010: Dumping indiscriminately hundreds of thousands of partially classified U.S. military documents was a reckless and irresponsible action. Possibly countless individuals were put at risk by this action! Bradley Edward Manning a.k.a. Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (the leaker) is another topic of its own. Assange probably exercised poor judgement!
5. The massive release of unredacted U.S. cables in 2011 was another irresponsible job and very amateurish!

Side note: Assange got married again in 2022. His second wife Stella Assange "a lawyer and human rights defender." A marriage of convenience? 😊

UK: Julian Assange dangerously close to extradition following High Court rejection of appeal | RSF: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is deeply concerned by the UK High Court’s decision rejecting WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange’s appeal against his extradition order, bringing him dangerously close to being extradited to the United States, where he could face the rest of his life in prison for publishing leaked classified documents in 2010.