wikileaks

[billy]

isn't that being a little myopic?
is anything that black and white?

i happen to think some of what the gov does should be more transparent and some should be less so.
i don't support any position. my take is from seeing assange himself in interviews from what his co workers said.
i think wikileaks is a good thing and assange a bad thing. i think that people who see him as a hero are more embedded in a dream or fantasy of what they want him to be as opposed to what he is. the usa's abuse of power and any other countries abuse of power is scandalous and i abhor it. yet i don't support a man who uses other peoples sacrifice to become a great person. that's what he did. he used people not for what should be told but for what he could gain. everybody including me loves the ideal wiki leaks stood for. what we can't stand is how he drove it and freedom of the press further into the ground than it's ever been should new laws be enacted.
you say he is a hero.

i say he's a parasite, and an opportunist, again and again he's proven he's in it for the cash and the fame.
he hasn't even got the brains to refuse any false accolades he gets till manning is released. manning is the hero, and assange fed off him like a vulture feeds off a carcass. the media did the same wit the leaks, they fed, thanks fully they didn't profess to be doing it to enhance freedom of the press or speech. they just did it to boost circulation.

could you define hero for us please?