WIKILEAKER Julian Assange is entering his fifth year as a man with a travel toothbrush and the heavy weight of legal charges over his head. <\/p>\n
Assange is languishing in luxury or spending his time between chair and treadmill, depending on who you listen to. He most certainly is not at liberty, however, and has been living in a room at the Ecuadorian embassy. <\/p>\n
Assange will - if he has been allowed to - have scratched some 1,462 marks on the wall of his room. <\/p>\n
Each of these will probably cause him to lose his deposit, if he paid one, and each will serve as testimony to the number of days that he has been away from what he might consider his home. <\/p>\n
The Free Assange campaign said that, as the fifth year rolls into being, it is perhaps time to do something about it. <\/p>\n
The group is suggesting that policing his stay is a waste of time and money, and has a number of other people who are happy to corroborate that assertion. <\/p>\n
A web site called Govwaste makes this point with a number of figures and comments, including a statement from Boris Johnson, London Mayor, who called the police effort a waste of money. <\/p>\n
Govwaste said that the Ecuadorian agency has offered Assange amnesty for as long as he needs it, which bodes rather ill for police finances. <\/p>\n
So far, the group said, the cost of policing the embassy would have paid for almost seven million meals for the needy. <\/p>\n
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