Justice dealt by States...

If there is one thing in this world people should be afraid of, it's making states angry at them. States are nameless in their attack, they are never punished. How can someone punish the USSR for the crimes commited by Stalin? But Stalin committed all his crimes in an official capacity as the USSR! With collective punishment out of the question there is little individuals can do. Heads of state rarely get tried for their atrocities. I don't see any chance of G.W. Bush going on trial for killing civillians in Iraq or Afghanistan...
This is why I feel so very sorry for Mr. Julian Assange - a modern day hero. This man spends his time trying to make us all aware of the terrible things our states are up to. And, no wonder, the states don't like it. Mr. Assange was recently released after being arrested and detained on bogus rape charges. Of course in Sweden the law is so amazing that one can get charged with rape for, here it comes, unwelcome staring at a woman. But let's not look into absurdities of a socialist-democrat law system.
States have used this weapon for many hundreds of years. If someone does something they don't like they smear his image with some terrible charges (which are totally unrelated to the actual thing they hate him for) such as rape or vandalism or sabotage. This is well known, especially in the history of Soviet Russia. Obviously they also try to make people's lives hell. Mr. Assange had his Swiss bank accounts blocked - something that Swiss banks refused to do even for terrorists and mercenaries. Apparently the US and EU governments hate Mr. Assange more than any terror threat.
We all know how states respect their own laws. Does anybody here remember what they did to Adolf Eichmann? The Israelis kidnapped the guy all the way from Argentina and staged a nice little show trial after which they executed him! And what happened after that? The international community applauded them! Granted Mr. Eichmann was a Nazi crminal, but I guess it turns out laws and justice are two completely different things even to the people who are supposed to be writing just laws... I also seem to remember that within my lifetime the great General Augusto Pinochet was imprisoned illegally by the Red terrorist gang (i.e. Labour Party) in the United Kingdom.

As Stalin's right hand man, Vyacheslav Molotov, used to say: "Show me a man and I will find you the paragragh by which to convict him." States can always find something against a person they don't like. And if they don't have anything they will just falsify evidence or torture people to get it. Why else would people like Mikhail Khodorkovsky (stuck in a Siberian labor camp for 22 years because he dared to sponsor an opponent of Mr. Vladimir Putin) be sitting in jails?