[gghhzzgghhzz]

The treatment of Assange defies belief, and the hypocrisy is off the scale. The defense from many people who would nominally be appalled by this, seems to rest on the poor character of Assange, so he gets written off. The poor character point may or may not be correct, but is completely irrelevant, and if it relates to civil or criminal offences then it has never been allowed to be tested.

[kelipso]

Also it's just insanely easy to malign the character of someone with a few well placed news articles and tweets.