Assange is a nutjob who grew up in Australia during the cold war as a teenage hacker thinking the world was going to end. His paranoia and sense of dread lead him to picking the biggest fight in the world possible.
Potentially people have died because of what he did, but also the public has an amazing resource for understanding the larger powers at will in the world around them.
If I have to get armchair about the rapes, everything I've seen it seems like he got high with a couple chicks and had some sex. Deviant I guess because there were multiple. I don't think there is media reports of this, but I'm sure there was some trip or some x involved. He very could be a date rapist. Very possible.
I don't think this claim has ever been made, but he could potentially have drugged and raped two women that were not awake to give consent. It's also possible that he violently forced women to have sex with him.
I want those women to have a reckoning with Assange in a Swedish court. By proxy if need be, to protect them from their assailant.
However, there is a big problem with moving him to Sweden because they are an American ally and we aren't exactly treating Chelsea Manning in a way that I think is appropriate for the gravity of what is happening.
Assange is a person looking for a war to the death because that's what he was brought up expecting. That may or may not be the game that we are playing, but it is the way he sees the world. He has provided a service that potentially could save lives and enable us to have a better shot at a more informed future.
Chelsea, Edward, and Assange are martyrs and I'm fairly sure they've accepted it. If they move to the wrong court they might be shot on a boat and dumped in the ocean and we'll not get to have that dialog.
It's fucking tragic if those women were victimized. If this crazy game of chess with these eccentric techie chists isn't allowed to play out verbosely, we will all suffer for it.