Checked Frankie Boyle's twitter, he has an RT of Labour MP Richard Burgon saying the following:
'Julian Assange is being targeted for exposing US war crimes - in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
Extradition to the US is not only an attempt to silence him - but to stop all journalists from speaking truth to power.
We must continue to oppose his extradition to the US.'
Wonder if he regrets putting the boot in with all his graun friends, or will now apologise for these comments monstering Assange at the time of his arrest?
'Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy, shouting 'resist, resist!' which is quite an ironic thing to shout when you've been accused of rape. There are women watching that in Sweden going 'you've changed your ####ing tune'. Obviously the British press have gone after him in a big way, and it's been interesting to watch the British press try to take the moral high ground about hacking. It's like the pope throwing out his R Kelly CDs. So maybe we should remember what Wikileaks actually did. Wikileaks published information from Chelsea Manning, who's a genuine hero, about American war crimes including footage of an American helicopter killing two journalists. Julian Assange was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and also got £250 from You've Been Framed. So maybe we should understand him as a guy who's done a lot of terrible, a lot of shitty things no doubt, but has also done one brilliant thing - a bit like Ricky Gervais. Some people say: why didn't he try to escape? He was in the embassy for seven years, apparently because every time his tunnel got to a certain depth he tried to #### it. There are other people who say: what Julian Assange is accused of isn't actually rape, as he's about to discover in prison. Actually he looked so pale, I think his best chance of survival is if an armed robber's semen contains vitamin D.' (from his 'New World Order', season 3 episode 4, broadcast on the beeb)
I think it's the the most despicable, shameful thing I've heard anybody say about Assange, from someone who should have defended him from the start and certainly had the political understanding to see through the lies. I can't watch him anymore without thinking about it, which mostly means I don't watch him...