The empire strikes back.

After 7 years of hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, "Julian Assange, the 47-year old Australia-born founder of Wikileaks, was arrested, forcibly bundled into a police van and brought before a London court on Thursday where he was found guilty of a bail offence and remanded in custody." Assange was allowed to stay at the embassy by the previous President of Ecuador Rafael Correa but is not liked by the present President Lenin Moreno. "The greatest traitor in Ecuadorian and Latin American history, Lenin Moreno, allowed the British police to enter our embassy in London to arrest Assange," tweeted Correa. "Moreno is a corrupt man, but what he has done is a crime that humanity will never forget." He will most probably be extradited to the US where he is charged with "conspiring to steal military secrets with Chelsea Manning". "According to the indictment on March 8, 2010, Assange agreed to assist (then Bradley) Chelsea Manning crack the password on US defense department computers." The charge of hacking has been introduced deliberately to deny him any First Amendment defense by claiming that he had published information he had received. The reason for US anger is that, "The most damaging leaks emerged in 2010, beginning with a video showing a US military Apache helicopter firing on and killing two journalists and several Iraqi civilians on a Baghdad street in 2007." US justice system is not ideal. "The rate of wrongful convictions in the United States is estimated to be somewhere between 2 percent and 10 percent," wrote John Grisham. "Can there really be 46,000 to 230,000 innocent people be locked away?" However, US citizens committing crimes abroad, on citizens of other countries, are protected. Lynndie England, the torturer of Abu Ghraib, received a slap on the wrist only because pictures of her depravity were released online. Britain persuaded Peru to release Michaella McCollum, who was caught smuggling 11 kg of cocaine into Peru and who is now looking to make money out of her crime. The actual whistleblower Bradley Manning, who changed his sex to a woman and has become Chelsea Manning, was pardoned by Obama. Supporters of Assange see his behavior as "evidence of vulnerability, rather than of malice and narcissism", wrote R Khatchadourian. Assange's critics see him as "a man with no core beliefs except augmenting his own power". Saint or sinner, Assange will serve time in prison. At least he showed that powerful nations are still committing genocides. Mai Lai was not an isolated incident.