Gotta Admit... I'm Pretty Baffled By The Split And Depth Of Feeling Re:The Assange/WikiLeaks Story

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286. You claim he's being railroaded, though the original arrest order was issued by a Swedish

court and was upheld on Assange's appeal, and though he was out on bail while the UK courts spent well over a year allowing him to contest the warrant

Your argument is apparently that he has offended lots of people, exposing some of their secrets, and therefore no one can possibly have a legitimate case against him

But trading in other people's secrets is a tricky business. Sometimes, people, who trade in other people's secrets, are convicted of crimes like blackmail. At other times, such people can become loathsome power brokers

You might want to think carefully about why a person wants other people's secrets and what a person can do with other people's secrets: a good case study is J Edgar Hoover, who seems to have had certain personal secrets he wanted preserved -- and who seems to have set out to protect his own secrets by learning about other people's secrets, then using what he learned to enhance his own power

This fact, that Assange is obsessed with collecting other people's secrets and getting credit for exposing those secrets, may tell you more about Assange's character than you think -- and what it tells you may not be entirely flattering