What I see when I look at the whole Wikileaks/Assange situation is a guy who started off well-meaning and really did want to make a difference who through a str

What I see when I look at the whole Wikileaks/Assange situation is a guy who started off well-meaning and really did want to make a difference who through a stroke of right-place-right-time happened to receive at the time the largest leak of classified documents in history. I honestly feel that being suddenly thrust into the spotlight as the most notorious person in the world at the time put Assange in a position he was not physically nor mentally equipped to deal with, and everything that has happened since then is a combination of not being able to deal with the fame and notoriety he gathered and an ego that prevents him from asking for help. He had isolated himself in a self-created cocoon of paranoia and ego long before he did so literally in the Ecuadorian embassy. In some ways, I feel bad for the guy, his intentions were well-meaning, and I respect the hell out of a guy who would stand up to the most powerful nation on earth and call them out for what they were doing, but Assange is his own worst enemy, and his current situation is of his own making.