Or you use the U.S. tactics of smearing the accusors and prosecutors with ad hominem attacks to the point that there's no way a fair trial can be achieved... un

Or you use the U.S. tactics of smearing the accusors and prosecutors with ad hominem attacks to the point that there's no way a fair trial can be achieved... unfortunately, the U.S. has far greater experience in this arena than Assange does so is it any wonder he's in hiding, there's no way he'll ever beat them at their own game. The last man that tried to take a one man stand against the U.S. was shot in his bedroom, the one before that was found in a rat hole... If Assange wasn't holed up somewhere as politically sensitive as a foreign Embassy on foreign soil, he'd have either ended up in the same boat or would have "disappeared" to a U.S. black site somewhere never to be heard from again until it was politically advantageous for the U.S. to "find" him.