Let's be clear about a few things: Whether Assange is "charged" with "rape" or not are a game of words since exact terms are not interchangable between law sys

Let's be clear about a few things: Whether Assange is "charged" with "rape" or not are a game of words since exact terms are not interchangable between law systems. He is wanted for a hearing with the prosecutor, after which he may or may not be charged with an actual crime, which may or may not lead to an arrest, depending on the severity of the crime. The crime mentioned is not yet specific but a scale and may end up between something like sexual harassment and rape, depending on that hearing. Futhermore, it is easier to extradite someone to the US from UK than from Sweden. It is also more complicated to arrest someone on a European arrest warrant than someone who is not. Assange has spent many months in both countries before the warrant. I won't speculate in eventual guilt, but I don't think he is helped by the theories floating about that this is part of an elaborate plot to extradite him, or that there was something clearly illegal about the process. It doesn't make sense.