Anybody who infuriates politicians and diplomats like Assange should be regarded as a hero.
All he has done is release information.
He has never fired a shot in anger, nor started a war. You cannot say that about his vile enemies.
He released unredacted information naming informants working with US and allied forces in Afghanistan amongst other things, for which they and their families have been put at risk of torture and/or death at the hands of the Taliban. For that reason alone he deserves an ignominious fate. He is no hero to anyone except the forces of chaos and evil.
Assange a hero?
Correa stopped allowing us to use any Ecuadoran airfields for drug interdiction because Correa is in bed with the drug cartels.
Assange was given secret US embassy emails regarding what the US was doing to protect its own citizens.
Those emails named Ecuadoran citizens helping to stop the drug trade. How do you think they will live if Assange gives those emails to Correa who will give them to the drug cartels?
Assange will be directly responsible for the deaths of others by pointing out their identity to people that will kill them.
Do you propose that we publish the locations and new identity of those in the witness protection program?
After all, it’s just information.