[ChaosMarine]

If they go after Assange, the next few years will have leaks done anonymously. If they let him go, people will leak the materials in their own names.

In either case, the leaks will not stop.

[Iv]

You still need people to authenticate the leaks. Otherwise, propaganda's game will be to engineer fake leaks and spread them around.

Journalism is essential to democracy. Protection of sources is crucial.

Some intellectuals consider it should be protected like a fourth branch of government and be independently funded.

[rolph]

SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds

[mmjaa]

This isn't about Assange.

This is about ensuring that the leaks continue.

The leaks will continue, with or without Assange. The line in the sand has been drawn: the entrenched criminals in the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex are long overdue for a reckoning, and it is coming - Assange or no Assange.

The cat is out of the bag, and it is really, really pissed off. Treating Assange poorly is going to ensure that its claws come out. The US Gov't and its lackeys are not immune to the light of truth - and this light is well and truly headed their way...