Julian Assange is arranging to meet with British police, his lawyer told Reuters.
Looks like Assange had the good sense to ask himself, “What would Christopher Hitchens do?”
For the uninitiated, the Hitch has been kind enough to narrate his brain things over at Slate today:
And [turning himself in], of course, prosecution or no prosecution, is what he really ought to do. If I had decided to shame the British authorities on Iraq in 1976, I would have accepted the challenge to see them in court or otherwise face the consequences. I couldn’t have expected to help myself to secret documents, make myself a private arbiter of foreign policy, and disappear or retire on the proceeds.
Of course, when Hitchens was threatened with imprisonment for breaking Britain’s Official Secrets Act, the United States welcomed him into its Free-Speech-defending arms. Time Man of the Year or no, Assange will have to find another port.
