The only thing that's protected Assange from being bundled into a jet and whisked to a foreign jurisdiction is his high profile. Says who? How is that theory a

The only thing that's protected Assange from being bundled into a jet and whisked to a foreign jurisdiction is his high profile. Says who? How is that theory anything more than part of the image he's made for himself? The only reason people are debating the drone strike situation at the moment is because of leaks. Even if I agreed with that (which I don't), you've neglected to explain how a Julian Assange figure is a requirement of leaking such information. I don't think we're better off with the world getting increasingly closed off and governments being able to better protect secrets. What I said was that we'd be better off without a Julian Assange like attention-seeker. If you cannot mentally separate his actions from the information, you're only confirming my point that he has created a media image about himself that greatly inflates his personal relevance. Focusing on being offended by someone's personality... Who cares about his personality? It's his actions I judge him on. I'm offended by his distortion of the content of the leaks ("Collateral Murder" is hardly the only example) and his choice to purposefully hold information back for a media-manipulating political purpose. If you want to blindly trust him (or anybody else) in spite of that, you're free too, but I don't think the world would be worse off without that.