I have previously posted on the issue of the extraordinary and unjust US/UK extradition treaty. I am with MtheGM and Don Thompson every inch of the way on this one - and indeed probably further.

Batteries, for fuck's sake!

The US law on the export of technology is a farce of vastly overreaching tendency. It is a modern equivalent of sending a gunboat.

The US "justice" system serves only the very very rich, and the US plea bargaining process is (and "back end slammer" charging habits are) a disgrace.

The "European Arrest Warrant" is no better and in some respect worse (although we wait with bated breath to see if the Supreme Court will clip its wings over Assange) in that it conflates a request from a prosecutor with one from a judicial authority.

The US pursues with a terrifying and spiteful focus those who seek to limit its hubris. Bradley Manning is being physically and mentally tortured, McKinnon has been and still is being psychologically tortured, and there is no possible defence of the physical and psychological systematic tortures in Guantanamo Bay and indeed in Abu Ghraib.

The US is a rogue state that refuses to accept international norms (eg the International Criminal Court).