"... nail stands up gets pounded down" -- Japanese apothegm

The Romans did that cross thing to a lot of people and I'm not sure how ceremonious they were about it really. However ceremonious it may have been, I don't think that contributed a lot to your experience if you were the guest of honor.

We've mostly kind of decided that sort of treatment, and a lot of others similarly popular in those times, aren't really things we do now. That strikes me as a positive development.

 

There is always the Putin embassy prison in London.

Just ‘back channel’ how much Biden would hate it and let the chips fall.

Bob Wilson

 

whatever the o/p thinks, i think the opposite

 

just as a matter of principle

 

meh.

I can get through a day or two without thinking about Assange.
If I see the mutt dressed in orange and being frog-marched down the ramp of a C-17 at Leeward Point Field in GTMO then I will certainly shed no tears on his behalf.
OTOH I don't think he's worth the fuel to drive a Reaper drone to wherever he's located, to say nothing of the cost of a AGM-114 Hellfire ($150k and up depending on options) to assist with his elimination.

 

founding fathers would have found him guilty of treason and hung him

 

+1