How gutless and hypocritical of critics of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange?

The media and politicians have manipulated information to suit their needs for too long, wikileaks has lifted the lid on their charade. The sad thing is many of your fellow citizens (if you are a US citizen) are actually parroting what the guttersnipe palin is saying. They are totally and utterly under their control and they dont even know it.

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." H. L. Mencken

Each of those you mention are quite rich. So too are Bill O'Reilly and that Arkansas twit Mike Huckabee, each of whom has used their tv pulpit to literally call for the extermination of Assange.

I'd say they are not terrified of anything except perhaps losing the ability to rake in more of the big bucks by appealing to the hungry mob of the truly terrified...that is to say, the many millions of gutless, spineless non-thinking non-blinking who are their audience (and who don't read anything so have no use for Wikileaks).

He's a felon at least,

Among the criminal laws apparently broken by Assange is 18 U.S.C. 793(e), which provides:

"Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, (etc. etc.) relating to the national defense, ... (which) the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates (etc. etc) the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same (etc) ...

"Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."

As is evident, merely being in unauthorized possession of classified national security documents that could be used to harm this country and publishing those documents constitutes a felony.

There's no exception for "journalists."

Of course they are.

Did you know technically, based on the law passed after the Civil War, that any State of the USA has the right to succeed from the country, under the notion that the State can match the USA power of arms?

Makes ya think....dudn't it?

To the U.S. and other governments and corporations involved in the crackdown on WikiLeaks:

We call on you to stop the crackdown on WikiLeaks and its partners immediately. We urge you to respect democratic principles and laws of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. If WikiLeaks and the journalists it works with have violated any laws they should be pursued in the courts with due process. They should not be subjected to an extra-judicial campaign of intimidation.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/wikileaks_petition/?slides...