LOl, whenever I see a new, elaborated name, I think that's Eric.
Sorry central scrutinizer, and thanks for scrutinizing my comment, again I dare not venture into the issue of Assange because I really don't know it.
What I'm pretty confident about is that America so far did not attune to the sphere of thought of dictatorship, but rather to the sphere of thought of a superpower with a moral duty to support global democracy.
I’m sorry to say that recently this country ( the United Clones) has let the forces of darkness drown out support for global democracy and embrace the slow deterioration of freedom loving people. Please see my thread under dharma and history; ‘ The United States responsibility in Democracy.’