Think more New Englandy <| sep |> Hey , great that you didn ' t take my kneejerk reaction as a personal diss . I ' m just allergic to him since I watched one of his videos on mental illness . To me , as a person who most like has such a disorder , his views were pretty revolting . <| sep |> Can you add me ? I need StompStomp 0 <| sep |> It makes it seem like he ' s still there and buys him time to get his story straight and settle into a safe place . If he stopped communicating without an explanation , perhaps the extra scrutiny would prevent him from settling at a new location successfully . Think of it this way , there is a lot of $$$ for catching Julian . Bribes and threats WOULD happen . Barely anyone , even those he is close to , and the people at wikileaks , can know what is going on . If he escaped secretly , the people he usually communicates with would know he wasn ' t there . I ' m not completely sure why though . Maybe it ' s because this way the people who helped him escape can deny it . No one has seen them help him they ' re relatively safe too , legally at least . They might make up a fake story about Ecuador doing it themselves at a later date .