I love ACs who don't know what the fuck they're talking about. In the case of Assange and has been demonstrated, he's into self promotion. Now RT (Russia Today) is about the only media outlet he has left and his story is becoming more lame. If he truly thought the charges were trumped up in Sweden, then fight them. Sweden's legal system isn't stacked against him and the whole paranoid illusion that the US Govt. was behind the charges should be proven in court. He chose to hid in the Embassy and stupidly, he's now an Ecuadorian house guest forever locked in there. So what he was afraid of, being imprisoned, has now happened to him and unlike any time he may have served in Sweden, he may still come out so 2 years in the Embassy, then whatever charges in Sweden + the bail/detainment skip he pulled in the UK. Any good attorney would be advising him to face the music and get it over with.
As for contributing, don't think that what Assange has ever done is contribute. The people who've given him the information are the true heroes, not this guy.