Leave Julian Assange alone!!!

I agree with you a thousand percent Nick. I'm an American and I live in Argentina. One of my biggest problems is that any U.S. government touts "openness" and "transparency". Yet, having lived outside the U.S. for the past 10 years I know just how little of that there actually is! I applaud Wikileaks. There need to be more sites like that. Get it all out! Let the American people see just what the government is truly like and hiding from them for their "security". They always cry it's a "national security" issue. What they really mean is that they're afraid they won't be able to control the masses if the truth gets out. Using your example of the Chinese, the U.S. has always screamed that there's no freedom of information for the Chinese people, that there's too much censorship, and yet it's guilty of the same. Has been for decades. Aren't they (the U.S. govt) in fact blocking access to Wikileaks from within the U.S.? Doesn't anybody wonder about that? With the creation of the "Patriot Act", there's very little "freedom of speech" left. It's one of those things that has been whittled away. You can get thrown in jail for wearing a t-shirt that says anything against the government. We've got the "Freedom of Information Act" that allows citizens to request certain information. The thing is, common citizens don't use it and, if they did, depending on the issue of course, they'd get pages that have blacked out sections that are still considered "sensitive". Remember when it was "leaked" about how the U.S. uses "waterboarding" and other forms of torture to get info from prisoners? Remember how fast they rationalized, justified and changed the subject? Just an example. I say, "Well done Julian Assange!" Keep up the good work!