Wikileaks

It's no wonder Assange is fighting extradition so hard. Looking at the actions of the US government, they are putting in place a scaffolding that will be inescapable.

Here's my prediction: If/when he gets extradited, he'll be locked up while Sweden sorts out the charges and decide not to charge him after all as they extradite him to the USA straight from his holding cell.

Once in the USA, they'll pull a Bradley Manning on him: lock him up in more or less solitary confinement and throw away the key, classified as enemy combatant or suchlike. No trial, no fuss, no muss.

After a week or two of newspaper uproar the next celebrity will drunk-drive her way into the headlines and in my opinion, after that odds are that he'll end up the pet annual Amnesty postcard celebrity for the rest of his life.

Yes, in his shoes I'd fight the extradition with every ounce of energy I have.