You miss the point. If Sweden's true motivation lay in doing something outside the legal system, what on earth was the protracted legal process for unrelated allegations of offences committed in Sweden all about? And if Assange's true motivation was fear that the Swedes were unusually willing to act outside rather the legal process rather than within it, why was he so ambivalent about this threat that he chose to live there and stayed there until his lawyer received notification legal proceedings against him had reached the stage where he was due to be charged?

It's certainly amusing to see Assange fans rewrite history to make the UK the good guy when it comes to not cooperating with the US over extraordinary renditions (or indeed ordinary ones). Even the UK government wouldn't make that claim.