>But to hear people describe Assange, he is almost literally perfect That's a shameful straw man. I don't know of many people who think Assange the man is any

>But to hear people describe Assange, he is almost literally perfect That's a shameful straw man. I don't know of many people who think Assange the man is any sort of saint, but there are many of us who think the character assassination against him is an obvious attempt to distract from the true story, just as the news stories about Manning's psychological and emotional health were an attempt to cast her decision to release those documents as anything other than a principled and moral one. I think a world without Wikileaks would be a measurably worse place, and a world without Assange would be a world without Wikileaks. Believing that requires no acts of deification or hagiography on my part. He's a flawed man doing important work.