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Some of you people are out of your minds. You are seriously suggesting that Michael Moore and Julian Assange should be assasinated? Assasinated for what? For providing us with evidence that the US elite is as corrupt and immoral as I have been arguing for years. You don't like the truth, it's too much for you to handle? So it is perfectly acceptable to start a war based on deceit, but not okay to reveal a few home truths about the dishonest nature of that war? Bush gets a pass, but we want Assange to be put out by a sniper? One man is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands and Assange is likely responsible for the death of noone.

So in calling for the assasination of Assange then you are obviously advocating the assasination of anyone at the New York Times and The Guardian who were also involved in the vetting process of these documents. How about then assasinating anyone who then goes on to read these said documents. Get a grip. We need checks on unlimited power. Our governments do not listen. We need alternative means of reigning them and the corporate elite in and Wikileaks has been doing that. We should be proud of the work Assange has been doing and should be highly critical of our governments. And rightly so.

And Lyle US party politics is irrelevant to this debate. The only reason that the Republicans have come back is because Obama is a fraud. He has always been a corporate shill whence no public option for health care, huge bail outs for the financial sector, expansion of the war and a watered down financial reform bill. People are dissapointed and their jobs haven't come back, but the only alternative are the Republicans. It will get much worse if they get into power. There is no voting alternative for the American people. You either vote for this party of big business or that one. There is no party looking out for ordinary people.

To be clear, I have not suggested he should be assassinated. I agree with you that would be a gross abuse of power, and would likely make a martyr of him anyway.

But he's no hero. His last 250,000 cables don't reveal any corruption, just 250,000 breaches of trust and theft of personal and confiential documents.

He is a menace to world peace with his irresponsible meddling.
Nonsense, the people who bang the drums for phoney wars are the threats to world peace. The release of data showing corruption and abuses of power in those illegal and immoral wars is a healthy thing. We need more Wikileaks and maybe we won't even be going to war in the first place.

And I certainly do not regard Assange as a hero. I don't know the man, but I do think is articulate and presents his views well. I appreciate the role that he has played in recent years and I would like him to continue doing what he is doing. He is simply doing what the gutted out media has failed to do and in particular I blame the US media. These places have been gutted and good investigative journalism just doesn't seem to exist anymore whence the apathy of the general public concerning what are really significant global events.