Assange in UK court asking for bail today.

Assange behind Police Glass, from the Guardian

The decisions should be coming within the next couple hours. Apparently, the courtroom is packed with celebrity lawyers, people of society in the UK, and international journalists. 

Meanwhile:

-Afua Hirsch from Guardian says that the case for Assange's extradition to Sweden using the European Arrest Warrant system is absolutely crazy, considering he hasn't been charged yet, and the offense that he's informally accused of doesn't exist under British law. Apparently this isn't the first time the extradition act tacked onto the EAW has been misused:

"In 2008 a Polish man was extradited for theft of a dessert from a restaurant, using a European arrest warrant containing a list of the ingredients. People are being flown to Poland in specially chartered planes to answer charges that would not be thought worthy of an arrest in the UK, while we pick up the tab for police, court, experts' and lawyers' time to process a thousand cases a year."

-Court reporters aren't even allowed to sketch, but they ARE allowed to tweet. And they are.

The British Government is awkwardly expecting Anonymous/"patriotic hacker" web-fallout of some sort pending the results of the hearing.

Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post gives us something soundbite-able:

" I don't particularly enjoy defending Assange, WikiLeaks or a bunch of irresponsible hackers. But I don't want the companies that regulate interaction and commerce on the Internet deciding whose views are acceptable and whose are not. The "terms of service" agreement that should take precedence is the First Amendment."

-Michael Moore offers support to the organization that will probably facilitate his next ten films.

-My favourite Glenn Greenwald tweets that news of Bradley Manning being subjected to torture is in the tubes.