Assange out on bail

It’s weird, you can get bail for murder and ponzi schemes and all sorts of violent, nefarious things. But tell the truth and spread the facts around for all to read and you’re jailed without the recourse of your everyday killer. So, there is a sad kind of justice after all with the news that Julian Assange may be freed on bail this morning.

Who sprung the WikiLeaks’ main man? Those enemies of the state and rightbloggers everywhere – celebrities, doing the job of journalists who should have been the first people in line to appeal and pay for Assange’s most likely brief freedom. So, thank you Michael Moore and whoever else ponied up to free the WikiLeaks founder.

If you are released – and appeals may keep in jail still – I say fly, Julian, fly. Get out of there. You will be hounded forever for speaking the truth through any charges they think will stick. Your future is one of never-ending incarcerations. In this new world of authoritarianism everywhere, freedom will become your new jewel. It will be elusive for you, I fear. Don’t be a martyr, as tempting as that may be.

I won’t go into the ‘rape’ allegations other than they are a little too convenient and untimely to be reason to not grant bail. So, Margaret Wente and all you other mouth-breathing journos who have a hate on for Assange, go back to your typewriters and payola; a real journalist will soon be back on the street and you will be exposed again for the hacks that you are. The future is now and you’re not a part of it. But Assange and the rest of us are. Rock on, Julian.

UPDATE: Looks like the Swedes will do anything to keep Assange in jail. Pretty peculiar effort to keep someone on jail in another country for not wearing a condom. Priorities, I guess. Via the Guardian, live updates:

Speaking again outside the court, Stephens says the Swedes will not abide by the umpire’s decision. “They [the Swedish authorities] clearly will not spare any expense to keep Mr Assange in jail,” he added.

“This is really turning in to a show trial. We will be in court in the next 48 hours, they haven’t given us the courtesy to say when. It is an unfortunate state of affairs … but given their history of persecuting of Mr Assange, it is perhaps not surprising.