"If your goal is psychological comfort, you have plenty of good reasons to loathe Julian Assange and spend all day helping plutocrats and secretive government agencies damage his reputation so that nobody will ever pay attention to him or his publications."

When I first saw U.S. helicopter crew shooting Iraqis and joking about it, I respected Wikileaks to publish it. As the truth came out and we found that it was Manning who "supposedly" leaked it and much more to Wikileaks, my respect grew for both Wikileaks and the whistleblowers brave to leak content to them. When Manning was held for months before trial and treated like shit, my respect continued to grow.

As Manning, Assange has been demonized for years by MSM and all who care only to maintain the status quo and suck on the teat of corporate globalization. It's sick and my respect just continues to grow for all who speak truth to power.

You wrote truth here:
"So they smear him. As often as possible, using whatever they can, they smear his reputation. Because if they can kill all sympathy for him and his outlet, it's as good for their agendas as actually killing him."

Thanks.

"What's next Wikileaks, what's next Wikileaks, what's next?"