"Assange is innocent and his speaking the truth has killed nobody."

Says who? Jules? According to the Guardian he said, "Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them.".

Jules is responsible for releasing the identities of hundreds of operatives and informants in countries where torture and murder are not uncommon consequences for such people, their families and associates. Some of the people named by Wikileaks are missing, and it is plausible that they have suffered horrible deaths. Is Jules innocent because he wasn't there? Should he be released without even a trial because some people think he has been through enough and committed no crime?

Jules is a revolting abusive narcissist who has been cowering from justice for over a decade. His irresponsible and callous conduct has very plausibly resulted in the the torture and death of many people. Justice is long overdue for this pathetic creep.

Fester,

Get over your hatred of Assange or produce evidence beyond doubt of what you say.

You seem to be forgetting the political lies and illegal attack and war chasing non existent WMD's, causing death of 100,000 plus civilians plus servicemen and women.

JF,

People were probably tortured and murdered as a result of Jules revealing their identities. Whatever good he might have done is no justification for the harm he did to people. He needs to stand trial for his actions.

Fester

JF is absolutely correct. As he said, you do need to need to get over your irrational hatred of Assange and if you can't do that you need to produce evidence to substantiate your claims.

Again, as JF has pointed out, Assange has revealed to the world the war crimes of Western governments which have killed, maimed and displaced millions of innocent people. His revelations might actually end the impunity with which western imperialist governments have hidden and gotten away with these crimes. If he achieves this, he will have saved many millions more lives than the few he's purported to have risked.

No person anywhere has been harmed as a result of the WikiLeaks revelations. US intelligence would have leaked it to the mainstream media and it would have been shouted from every rooftop had that been the case. If you're going to persist with these defamatory lies, you need to start providing substantive evidence of the harm you allege has been done.

I would quit now if I was you, Fester. Every time you post, you just dig yourself a deeper hole.

Fester,

Probably?

The illegal and unjustified invasion and war caused people to be tortured and murdered and mangled.

I don't agree with messing with military secrets like Assange did, but he is still innocent. He should be released immediately.

Bronwyn

Jules wont be condemned by my opinion nor exonerated by yours.

JF

I look at what happened in Vietnam and think the US crazy going into Iraq and Afghanistan. The troops go in with good intentions and end up hating the people they are sent in to help. I don't see the US as an evil empire. I think it more the machinations of the military industrial complex.

Jules was exposing the brutality of soldiers in such conflicts, which to me is no revelation, but in doing so he unnecessarily revealed the names of covert operatives and informants. That in my view is the primary reason why the US want him. Jules is arguing that he wasn't the one who revealed the names (he blames journos from the Guardian) and claims that no one was harmed as a result. The US is arguing otherwise.

There is a very large amount of information to work through and I feel that a judicial process is the only way to properly assess it. I can see why Jules is so scared. What he is alleged to have done is horrible and I believe that he would get a very long sentence. I think that Jules is well aware of his guilt, and coward that he is he will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to face justice.