You're saying it was purely the sexual assault, and nothing to do with becoming a puppet of Putin?

If you drive somebody out into the cold and he starts to carve himself a igloo in the snowman, what was there first?

The Traitors, who shoved a good man into a hostile environment or the bad deal of someone who refused to die for principals, neither of us would risk his neck for.

If you are hunted and stateless, you are breathing thin air - and cant choosy with your allies. Ideals are not calories, ideals dont warm at night, ideals are what got you into the trap in the first place.

If you where selfless enough to throw away your social life, for ungrateful people, who wouldn't even protest for ideals, why not make a deal with the devil to at least not become a martyr?

Don’t care; he allied himself with Putin to spread disinformation. He tarnished his own reputation, and has no one but himself to blame.

It really shows the non-liberal bias here at HN that the above comment has more down than up votes. Because if you are liberal, there is statement concerning Assange that is more true.