Mr. Assange

  Let me see if I understand his position correctly. It is o.k. for his organization to release hundreds of thousands of government documents covering almost as many subjects but, it is not o.k. for any leaks of information about his alleged RAPE case. I am sure that you, like me, see absolutely no hypocrisy in this whatsoever.

  Lets do a little comparison between the two situations. On one hand we have a government, that in many cases,  has, is or, will be in sensitive discussions, negotiations or, operations with those very governments, politicians, military leaders and others that those documents addressed. Their cooperation is imperative to the success of such endeavors that our government may undertake to insure peace between other nations as well as our own national security. On the other hand, we have a man that has been accused, not once, but twice of, at the very least, sexual assault. The leak of information about this case only harms one individual as opposed to the countless many that have been harmed by his release.

  He claims that Swedens release of information is a violation of law and that he has been unjustly hurt by that release. This may be a valid point but can one hurt others only if they break the law. I would say that it is possible to hurt others without breaking the law. I think we can all agree that the U.S. and some other countries have been hurt by the Wikileaks release and that a country is nothing without its people. So I would argue that we have all been hurt by those documents being made public.

  He also argues that he didn't take the documents. This is true. He also has said that he only made a site available for such things to be released. Also true. He conveniently leaves out one step though. He had the final say on wether or not such information should be made public. He didn't have to release those documents, thereby creating angst between nations and peoples. He forgot the most important consideration of all.... Moral obligation. He had a moral obligation to consider which was more important. The release of the documents that most likely would and could cause some damage to foreign relations or deciding that for the greater good he would turn them back over to the government they belonged to thereby keeping the status quo.

   His decision speaks more about his dislike or hatred of the U.S. than it does about his feeling that all things should be transparent fore if he truly believed that all things should be transparent then I don't think he would be shedding tears about the Swedeleak!

                              I'm JUST SAYING.......