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There’s no universe in which Assange deserves the treatment he would receive in the US no matter how bad of a guy he is.

But there's a special place in earth where it routinely happens: the US of A.

What Assange is suffering pales against what happened in Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib.

Nobody ever paid.

Well, Assange is not in the US quite yet - right now he is only being tortured by the British. Apparently, this will change soon, so ...

In the case of Abu Graib there were consequences for the soldiers directly involved.

My feeling is that they were the perpetrators, but not those who were actually responsible for what happened.

Meaning that the event might or might not be isolated, but the chain of command is responsible for the mentality.