What motivates the outrage over Julian Assange's Political Asylum?

[sabrina 1]

55. I am immune to conspiracy theories also. That's why I support the new media

such as News Organizations like Wikileaks where you know you won't get Conspiracy Theories like 'There are Mushroom Clouds headed our way from Iraq's WMDs'. Our MSM had no problem dispensing those CTS, but Wikileaks whether you like the concept of real facts or not, has never been accused of doing the same thing. And that is their 'crime'. They committed journalism.

Many people believe that if Wikileaks had existed before the Iraq War started, it might not have happened, although I think Assange would be dead for interfering with Cheney's war.

We have no press which is why we have a government that can do whatever it wants and there are no consequences. Wikileaks was exactly what we on the Left were dreaming of throughout the Bush years and when it did appear and we saw them reveal the corruption of dictatorships like Kenya's brutal regime, and Iceland's main bank etc, it was like a dream come true and we hoped they would get something on the Bush war crimes, but never thought it would happen. And then it did.

And nothing has been done about the crimes they exposed. Instead, something really bad has happened, the left which railed against the Bush war crimes for so long, have suddenly gone silent, and some are even calling the messenger the criminal.