Ah, you view him as a celebrity gadfly and this event of no real world consequence. OK.

I'd be more than happy to have Kim Kardashian spent the rest of her life in the Ecuadorian embassy.

My point is that although Assange is well known, he is not a prisoner of conscience like Mandela, Ai WeiWei, Ghandi etc etc. He is not being pursued for bravely standing up to an oppressive regime. He is being pursued for taking sexual advantage of two women.

"He is not being pursued for bravely standing up to an oppressive regime. He is being pursued for taking sexual advantage of two women."

Ah, there's where we have to part ways. I believe that's willful ignorance of the situation.

Kim Kardashian is not really that famous globally, I only know who she is because of the internet. My parents and all my friends have no idea who she is.

Assange on the other hand has made the newspaper here many times.