A PROBLEM?

     "How do you solve a problem like Assange?"

     Only an American news agency could write that headline.  Julian Assange isn't  a "problem." 

He is an honorable human being, whom the United States government wants to torture and imprison for being honorable.

     The Swedish government wants to "question" Assange about a sex crime.  They want him extradited to Sweden.  But if he agrees to go to Sweden, he will be kidnapped and transferred to America where he will be imprisoned, tortured, and eventually tried and convicted of telling the 

truth about American crimes against humanity.

     The United States has already sent Bradley Manning to prison for thirty years for releasing evidence of American war crimes--including films of the mass murder of civilians by U. S. troops.  

     Had Manning NOT released the evidence he had, his failure to do so would have been a serious crime.  In U. S. civil law the crime is called being an "accessory after the fact."  Under the U. S. Uniform Code of Military Justice the crime is called "misprision of a felony."  In both jurisdictions, the failure to report a felony crime is of equal gravity with the felony itself, and has the same maximum punishment.

      Nobody, of course, would expect the U. S. government to enforce its own law.  The U. S. government is the responsible felon.  If Julian Assange leaves the Ecuadoran Embassy he will go either to Sweden and then to the United States, or simply straight from London to the United States.  And he will be tortured in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, and then locked away in prison for the rest of his life.

      Why?  Because he will have revealed the evidence about U. S. war crimes.    

     Only from an American perspective is Julian Assange "a problem."  He is an honorable man (questions about "sex crimes" are only questions) whom the United States government wants to silence

because he has evidence of U. S. war crimes.

     Julian Assange ISN'T "a problem."  But the United States is such.