Originally posted by jeffkrol and if he had released a million documents about N. Korea and Iran he would be what?
A US hero glorified for his bravery..........
I don't see how is that comparable. If he does something that makes the world safer for us all, then he is a hero (and that includes exposing world-damaging US secrets). But if he dumps a bunch of documents online that hurts honest efforts by others to make the world safer, then he is no hero.
Originally posted by wizofoz An Aussie sticking up for an Aussie may well be understandable, (and in this country that is not an overwhelming majority position) but no more so than Americans sticking up for a dubious legal process that Assange WILL be exposed to if he is extradited to Sweden, and thus the US.
You are right, and I am not sticking up for the US wanting to charge him with treason. Actually, none of the legal stuff was on my mind when I posted. I was just speaking to the attitude that some people seem to have that Assange is some sort of hero when in the US incident at least he seemed self-serving.
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Last edited by les3547; 08-17-2012 at 07:37 PM.