Julian Assange doesn't want to go to Sweden, thankyouverymuch.

Julian Assange Appeals Extradition   

You can't always guarantee you'll meet a celebrity on your flight, but we might get an answer soon if your chances of meeting Julian Assange on a flight to Sweden will go up immeasurably.

The Australian political activist turned online-whistle-blowing leviathan is in court today fighting extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning in relation to two cases of sexual molestation. He was told in February that he would be extradited, but today starts his two-day appeal to overturn the earlier ruling.

Assange claims the sexual activities were consented to by the plaintiffs, and that the charges against him are purely politically motivated. Assange is the owner and founder of Wikileaks, the website renouned for leaking 250,000 classified Government cables this year.

Assange's lawyers say he could be transferred from Sweden to the United States where he would be at risk of facing the death penalty. This, he says, infringes his Human Rights.

This begs the question then, Assange is an Australian citizen, and if you're in the UK for more than 6 months per year you have to pay British taxes. But if that 6 month stay is court-imposed (i.e. under House Arrest, in Assange's case) do the rules still apply?

Come with me on this, we could start kidnapping people from Europe, locking them up for 6 months, then charging them taxes.

Deficit solved!