Don't forget Ned Kelly, Runner.

I gonna mail the Kiwi's and ask them to offer Julian citizenship and you can't stop me!

Then I want to have little baby Whistles with him.

Thank you Runner, in a very real way Julian has Christ like qualities. His determination to expose the oppression of power and to give hope to those who fall victim to it's excesses is the same.

His mission is to bring us the truth something the authorities are keen to deny us and like Christ he has a very real chance of becoming a martyr for the cause.

If or when that occurs will we see you in the crowd calling for his crucifixion or it's equivalent? Probably.

Please have pity on runner for he knows not what he does.

I probably wouldn't go so far as to call
Julian Assange a "true Aussie hero" just yet,
but he has managed to capture the attention
of the world's elites in a way that very few
Aussies have. His demonisation by Western
governments and the MSM is quite fascinating,
given that nobody seems to be able to nominate
exactly what laws he's alleged to have broken
and where, other than some very obviously trumped
up charges of sexual assault in Sweden.

It's quite likely that he will become something
of a folk hero, because ultimately what he's doing
could well be beneficial to us all. There's far too
much cloak and dagger BS involved in government and
corporate activities generally, and secrecy facilitates
illegality, excess and conflict.

I think the kind of reluctant transparency that Wikileaks
has foisted on the world could well end up being seen as a
critical historical moment, in which case Mr Assange could
be seen as a kind of hero.

@ runner: I can't recall anybody describing Hicks as any
kind of hero. And what's it got to do with climate science?

runner,

Julian Assange wrote:
"The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may, I cannot escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now, men in their prime, if they have any convictions are tasked to act upon them."

Sounds most unlike a terrorist to me.

Do you have any convictions as deeply held as those set out above, runner? Are you tasked to act upon anything greater than criticising one who opens the way for truth to be delivered into the hands of the people?

I just wish he'd release the password for the insurance file, but I understand why he hasn't. I wonder what it contains, it must be big or he'd be dead already?

Oh I take it Csteele you are pleased that Mr Assange has exposed the gw fraud?