re: #21 ozbloke

Seriously, I would have expected better of you..

Sucker. I was trying to be a better person but that was yesterday.
Assange is a deconstructionist. What is journalism? Is a blogger a journalist? If I write something down on paper am I a journalist? What is music? If I put a dirty toilet in a gallery is it art? Is a plumber an artist?
It’s an easy gimmick and Assange stumbled upon it at the right time. You could have easily done the same gimmick 50 years ago with a photocopier but they would have thrown you in jail or killed you with no questions asked. The internet makes things a little different but the principles and reality haven’t changed.
If he can’t be charged with existing laws we’re going to need new ones.