re: #598 harlequinade

Wait - I’ll be clearer. I don’t hold an opinion on what he did. I question what he thought he was doing. If he thought he was acting nobly, with a patriotic cause, then he has his justification.

Of course he has his own justification, or he wouldn’t have done that. That doesn’t make him a whistleblower.

Assange is a cock with a flair of the dramatic. That doesn’t make him guilty of espionage. It makes him a cock.

Dude. That is really, really not my point.

You’re asking why the papers are being treated differently than Assange.

I’m pointing out that there are differences between Assange and the papers, like the way he distributed an encrypted file with a thinly veiled threat that if action is taken against him he’ll send out the key to open it.