Ooo, great link! You won't mind it I quote from it, I'm sure:

Assange’s Special Asylum: Why Ecuador Isn’t Nice to Anyone Else

The government of Rafael Correa extends its hospitality to the WikiLeaks founder but is accused of harassing unfriendly journalists and may extradite a whistle-blower from Belarus to face grave charges in the country described as "Europe's last dictatorship"
By Stephan Küffner / Quito | August 16, 2012

Like WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Alexander Barankov has worked to expose government misconduct via the Internet. Both men have received refuge on Ecuadorian territory. But while the South American country made world headlines granting Assange diplomatic asylum on Thursday morning, Barankov faces imminent extradition from Ecuador to its new ally Belarus, described by most observers as “Europe’s last dictatorship” ...

The plight of Barankov poses a real test of Ecuador’s commitment to human rights. A former Belarusian army captain, Barankov arrived in Quito in 2008 thanks to the Ecuadorian government’s very liberal immigration laws. He then set up a blog denouncing corruption and other crimes allegedly committed under authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko. Ecuador initially granted him refugee status, but after a state visit by Lukashenko to Quito on June 29, he was arrested and is being held in the capital’s infamous, 19th century prison while the top court hears the case on Belarus’ fresh extradition request. If sent there, according to his partner, Maribel Andrade, he will face charges of treason and could be put to death.

http://world.time.com/2012/08/16/assanges-special-asylum-why-ecuador-isnt-nice-to-anyone-else/

Julian Assange still on most-wanted list despite asylum decision: Interpol

Raphael Satter and Gonzalo Solano, Associated Press
Aug 16, 2012 10:37 PM ET
Last Updated: Aug 16, 2012 11:08 PM ET

... Interpol, the Lyon, France-based international police agency, issued a statement late Thursday saying Assange remains on the equivalent of its most-wanted list, the Ecuadorian decision notwithstanding ...

Under Ecuador’s asylum offer, Assange is not permitted to make political statements or grant interviews of a political nature, restrictions that are standard for anyone granted asylum, said an Ecuadorean Foreign Ministry official, who was not authorized to be quoted by name ...

In a mark of its anger over the asylum ruling, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said it had summoned Ecuador’s ambassador to complain about the decision. The country’s foreign minister, Carl Bildt, said in a message posted on Twitter that “our firm legal and constitutional system guarantees the rights of each and every one. We firmly reject any accusations to the contrary” ...

The issue already seems to have frayed diplomatic ties between the U.K. and Ecuador. Britain’s previous ambassador to Ecuador, Linda Cross, departed earlier this year and had been due to be replaced this month by Patrick Mullee. But his arrival has been delayed ...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/16/julian-assange-still-on-most-wanted-list-despite-ecuadors-decision-to-grant-him-asylum-interpol/

... "Julian Assange is an Australian citizen ... if he wants consular support, it's offered,

it's available," Mr Burke told the Seven Network on Friday.

"The offer of consular assistance is still there."

Mr Burke said Mr Assange had not contacted Australian diplomatic officials ...

Consular help available to Assange: govt
From: AAP
August 17, 2012 8:28AM
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/consular-help-available-to-assange-govt/story-e6freono-1226452285430

Assange as a poor stateless refugee won't fly any better anywhere than any of his other hallucinatory theories

Text of the UK's letter to Ecuador (Via WaPo)

... Assange himself told friends in London that he was supposed to return to Stockholm

for a police interview during the week beginning 11 October, and that he had decided to stay away. Prosecution documents seen by the Guardian record that he was due to be interviewed on 14 October.

The co-ordinator of the WikiLeaks group in Stockholm, who is a close colleague of Assange and who also knows both women, told the Guardian: "This is a normal police investigation. Let the police find out what actually happened. Of course, the enemies of WikiLeaks may try to use this, but it begins with the two women and Julian. It is not the CIA sending a woman in a short skirt" ...

10 Days in Sweden
The Guardian / By Nick Davies
http://www.alternet.org/story/149254/10_days_in_sweden%3A_the_full_allegations_against_julian_assange?page=3&paging=off

Why the Ecuadorians are stalling on Assange's asylum request

The Ecuadorians' (not always pleasant) experience of US foreign policy naturally leaves them sympathetic to anyone who pokes the US in the eyes, and Assange made a great show of doing exactly that. Accordingly, they might enjoy granting Assange's asylum request, if it smecked the US in the schnozz again. But, all the paranoid histrionics of Assange & Co aside, the actual result of an asylum grant would be much gnarlier than that for Ecuador

According to general Latin American standards, an asylum seeker can flee to a country's embassy; and if that country agrees to offer asylum, then high-level negotiations for the asylee's safe passage to that country will follow. But it is understood this is intended as a mechanism to protect political refugees, not common criminals. However, these general Latin American standards are codified only in regional treaties and are not widely accepted. The idea, that someone in instant danger can appropriately seek temporary refuge in an embassy, is probably widely accepted, but again this view is not intended to shelter common criminals

A first problem for Ecuador, therefore, is simply that Assange is wanted in conjunction with criminal complaints in Sweden and is further subject to arrest in the UK for jumping bail. No evidence has ever been presented that the criminal process in Sweden is politically motivated

A second problem for Ecuador is that there no grounds for thinking Assange is in such instant danger in the UK, or would be in such instant danger in Sweden if extradited there, that Ecuador's prompt intercession is required for humanitarian reasons. Assange moved about freely in Sweden during his stay there. After his arrest in the UK (nearly two years ago now), he was granted bail and was largely free there as well, subject to such minor conditions as wearing a tracking bracelet, contacting the police daily, and spending evening hours at a certain fixed address (which happened to be a very comfortable mansion). Circumstances do not suggest any official efforts in either Sweden or the UK to kill him or to cause him grave bodily or emotional harm. Nor do circumstances otherwise suggest that he is a victim of, or is likely to become a victim of, nefarious official efforts, in Sweden or the UK, to interfere with his natural human rights in any substantial way, except in the normal course of Swedish process for a sexual crimes complaint

A third problem for Ecuador is that the UK does not recognize "diplomatic asylum" and would be extraordinarily unlikely to follow the Latin American model of negotiating safe-passage from the UK to Ecuador, in the event that Ecuador offered Assange "diplomatic asylum" -- first, because the UK will find no reason to disrespect Sweden in such manner; second, because authorities in the UK will not disregard the orders of the UK courts so lightly

A fourth problem for Ecuador is that Sweden, having gone to the trouble of swearing out a warrant for Assange, in order to bring him under the Swedish criminal justice process, and having pursued that warrant, at some length, against Assange’s contest in the UK courts, is unlikely to view favorably any Ecuadorian interference in the process. The conspiracy theories -- advanced by Assange, his lawyers and his supporters, according to which the Swedes have (contrary to Swedish constitution and statute) allowed a foreign power to subvert their criminal justice process, in order to facilitate a subsequent extradition to the US, so that Assange can be tortured or executed -- are just insulting to Sweden as a modern and progressive country, proud of its tolerance and humanitarianism. Granting Assange asylum involves a slander of Sweden, which cannot lubricate Swedish-Ecuadorian relations

A fifth and similar problem for Ecuador is that the UK, having thoroughly digested this topic in its courts, is unlikely to view favorably any Ecuadorian grant of asylum to a common criminal suspect. The upheld warrant for Assange involves an allegation of rape. The UK will find no advantage in allowing Ecuador to set a precedent, of sheltering in its embassy, persons accused of rape. Such a precedent would signal that any person, accused of any common crime, may dependably seek refuge with any diplomat with credentials at the Court of St James, undermining all intents of established international diplomatic understandings. Whether or not it intends to use available remedies, the UK does have options for enforcing a demand to hand over Assange, including expelling the Ecuadorian ambassador or breaking diplomatic relations with Ecuador

There is a related but somewhat more general problem for Ecuador. The Europeans have a carefully-negotiated extradition regime, according to which Assange could not be re-extradicted to the US from Sweden without the permission of the UK. A re-extradition request would be litigable in both Sweden and the UK. The conspiracy theories -- involving subsequent extradition to the US -- are insulting to the entire European community that negotiated the extradition regime, suggesting that Ecuador regards the European treaties as meaningless. As there is no particular upside to the European community, in having their treaties so regarded, an Ecuadorian grant of asylum to Assange will not lubricate European-Ecuadorian relations

Who has Julian Assange screwed over the most thoroughly?

Assange boasts of having fathered at least four children around the world
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-02-11/europe/28547900_1_daniel-domscheit-berg-julian-assange-wikileaks-founder
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355853/WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange-fathered-4-love-children-friend-claims-tell-book.html

Regarding the accusations of his Swedish girlfriends, Assange has sometimes said they were simply jealous of each other, and at other times he has suggested that he was caught in a covert US honeytrap as a reprisal for his leaks. In his autobiography, he holds both views simultaneously
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/wikileaks-founder-baffled-by-sex-assault-claims/story-fn775xjq-1225976459286
http://gawker.com/5842613/the-unauthorized-autobiography-of-julian-assange

Assange owes most of his fame to Manning. And in a year when his organization took in nearly $2 million, Assange promised $50K for Manning's defense and used Manning's name for fundraising purposes. But he only ever delivered $15K
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20011106-281.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/07/AR2010120704817.html?sid=ST2010120701470

Assange got $1 million or more in an autobiography deal. But part-way through, he suddenly decided he he wanted to cancel the contract. He never returned the money, though
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/wikileaks-founder-gives-little-away-in-this-unauthorized-autobiography/537510
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/julian-assanges-unauthorized-autobiography-released-in-london/2011/09/22/gIQAtq2XnK_story.html

New York Times editor Bill Keller worked with Assange for a while, before experiencing (like many others) a sudden falling out. Assange eventually retaliated with a careful and elaborate hoax of column attributed to Keller
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/magazine/30Wikileaks-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/29/bill-keller-fake-column-wikileaks

Assange supporters put up about $375K to keep him out of jail during his extradition hearings in the UK. How did he repay them? He jumped bail. The folk who put up the money are hoping the courts won't take it too seriously
http://m.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/assange-breached-bail/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/20/julian-assange-supporters-240000-bail
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2012-07-27/julian-assanges-bail-backers-plead-to-keep-their-money/

At one time, people argued about the importance of redacting the US embassy cables. Then it turned out that Wikileaks had actually released them all anyway
www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/10/wikileaks_amnesty/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/11/wikileaks_0
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392345,00.asp
http://m.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/wikileaks-leak/
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/british-newspaper-guardian-hits-back-in-wikileaks-row-on-password-leak-of-us-diplomatic-cables/articleshow/9824960.cms

In 2010 Assange began threatening a major release of bank info, which he promised would take down a bank or two. Then he began urging people to dump their Bank of America stock. This affected stock prices and BoA launched an internal investigation. Assange went on TV to laugh about how much fun it was to watch the banks squirm. But then, after a few months, he said he wasn't sure the BoA materials amounted to much. Nothing significant was ever released
http://www.cnbc.com/id/42762811/The_Great_Wikileaks_Bank_of_America_Hoax
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/22/no-wikileaks-has-not-confirmed-it-will-target-bank-of-america/
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/wikileaks-warns-on-bank-of-america-place-your-funds-somewhere-safer_12182010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/01/bank-of-america-wikileaks_n_790253.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/business/03wikileaks-bank.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/31/assange_says_us_cant_take_wikileaks_down/
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/11/108626/wikileaks-assange-doubts-value.html

Michela Wrong wrote a book on corruption in Kenya (It's Our Turn To Eat) that appeared without her permission on the WikiLeaks site. When she wrote asking Assange to respect her copyright, she received only ridicule
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/10/wikileaks-collateral-murder-video-iraq

WikiLeaks Founder Gives Little Away in This ‘Unauthorized Autobiography’

Simon Marcus Gower | August 12, 2012

... Well, Assange did give himself permission, motivated by a very substantial contract from a publisher. Various reports put the initial deal at anywhere between 900,000 pounds to a cool million ($1.4 million to $1.5 million). But then the author had second thoughts.

Upon seeing a draft of the book, the founder of the controversial WikiLeaks website concluded that he could not go ahead with publication, not least because he feared it would add to problems in a case being brought against him by US prosecutors. Assange withdrew his authority for publication, but the publishers were not pleased ...

In the preface, the publisher states that the book “explains both the man and his work, underlining his commitment to the truth” ...

Instead, a careful reading of the book provides a picture of a hacker addicted to the thrill of leaking documents that he knows are not intended for release. The Assange we see here is someone whose “pursuit of the truth” appears to have developed from an almost obsessive computer-hacking habit ...

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/wikileaks-founder-gives-little-away-in-this-unauthorized-autobiography/537510

After a few minutes with this, I worry about campaign & election officials

There are 96 reported convictions for election fraud nationwide since 2000

28 cases of the cases involve voters
- 4 absentee ballot fraud
- 1 voter impersonation
- 2 registration fraud
- 1 non-citizen casting vote
- 7 double voting
- 4 casting ineligible vote
- 7 felons casting ineligible vote

22 cases involve campaign officials
- 7 absentee ballot fraud
- 7 vote buying
- 6 registration fraud
- 1 non-citizen casting vote
- 3 cases of petition fraud
- 1 campaign fraud
- 2 cases of intimidation
- 2 casting ineligible vote

7 cases involve third party organizations
- 1 absentee ballot fraud
- 4 registration fraud
- 2 petition fraud

21 cases involve election officials
- 1 absentee ballot fraud
- 10 of vote buying
- 2 registration fraud
- 2 campaign fraud
- 1 casting ineligible vote
- 7 falsifying election counts