So let me see if I understand the 2 biggest hot button topics on DU

[sabrina 1]

83. Well that's a substantive comment. It assumes first of all that all the

human rights organizations and journalistic organizations which have given awards to Wikileaks over the years, are morons.

But mostly it demonstrates how little you know about Wikileaks. And to assume that anyone here gives a rat's ass whether Assange cares about them personally or not, is simply childish.

Assange's personal views on politics are views I personally do not agree with in many areas. But that has zero to do with providing a News Media that reports on crime and corruption in governments regarless of one's personal views.

Why is this so hard a concept to grasp? It appears to me to be putting forth the idea that we should ignore crimes IF our 'team' is engaged in them. This is what is wrong with the US right now. The willingness of the Right to ignore the crimes of its 'team', and now the willingness of the 'left' to do the same.

Wikileaks only mission, regardless of political views, was to provide Whistle Blowers in countries such as China eg, and many Chinese dissidents were part of the whole idea of Wikileaks for obvious reasons, with a safe place to report on crime and corruption mainly in Governments, and they have done that. But also in the business world, and they have also done that. See Iceland's banking system eg.

Why people think that Wikileaks came into existence only after receiving material on the US is a mystery to me but does show a complete lack of knowledge of this organization.

So to repeat, from THIS progressive, I don't care about Assange personally anymore than he cares about me, which is as I would expect, zero. I care about the huge effort to silence a very successful new media which stepped in to the huge chasm where the Western Media had been taken over by Corporate interests, and of course in third world dictatorships and other oppressive regimes, where there never was a truthful media.

Those who are caught up in the personality of Assange, demonstrate that they have no interest or knowledge of the main purpose of Wikileaks and the huge need for a truly Free Press. No wonder it's shocking to some Americans, we don't know what a real media is anymore.