Strange “roots” not withstanding, I hope he can find some peace with his family and has a chance to get to know his children. It would be sauer to hear he has passed on shortly after release. Goes to show humanity lives in an age whether you choose a stance and stick by it, nobody cares. If it is about power and earning scraps from the powerfull’s table, then many care!!
Well, that takes one political issue off the table. Now the lesson and experience goes down the memory hole, forget about the deep state and their nefarious ways…
An interesting narrative would be about how, why and who put this “deal” together? Umm
Where’s that article?
…and no more talk of all the government(s) shenanigans he made people aware of.
People are starting to reminisce.
Edit….graphic language
… agreed. Although an appearance in an open court with “discovery” (whatever passes for that nowadays) would have been preferred. This decision is probably best for him (worse for the rest us) - because the door remains wide open for the same thing to be done to many others. This is just the one case of which we were aware. His continuing to be in jail would serve no purpose and the PTB would be content to let simply let him rot and die. The gesture of dying for a noble cause and receiving the requisite respect is past and the age of martyrs is long gone. 
Ask anyone here. This is The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial in Northern France.
As of the end of 1918 there were 559,000 graves of the unknown from WW I. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I, was around 40 million. There were 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded. The total number of deaths includes 9.7 million military personnel and about 10 million civilians. The Entente Powers (also known as the Allies) lost about 5.7 million soldiers while the Central Powers lost about 4 million. An absolutely and needless slaughter of human beings.
Being a child from a military home, and attending military schools I learned of the Red Poppy early in life. It was to be worn only on Armistice Day (not the generic, watered down Veterans Day) the 11th of November. It was explained to us, in no uncertain terms, that it was to be worn only on that day to remind us of the lesson we had still not learned.
I have to agree Scarmoge… I was disappointed to hear this, but, on the other hand, i can certainly understand Assange wanting to be done with the ordeal.
And for those who would like the movie version of Assange’s hero journey…
That’s what happens when the deep state has the MSM journalists and publishers in their intelligence network. Julian may have been a top notch cybersecurity ball buster but perhaps a bit naive about the nature and capabilities of psychopaths, even those he trusted.
Hmmmm … Judas Iscariot, Lee Harvey, and Julian you say?
"You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to So that when they turn their backs on you, You’ll get the chance to put the knife in … "
“And when you lose control…you’ll reap the harvest you have sown” - both from Pink Floyd’s Dogs
Wonder what an essay would say when comparing the lives of Ezra Pound, Julian Assange and Roger Waters, especially if adjectives were left out?