Until yesterday, I used to think Julian Assange was just a computer wiz person who could hack into U.S. Government files and wanting to make a name of himself and become famous. For a while I thought he was a US government's puppet along with is sidekicks from Wikileaks, but today I have come to believe that this guy is becoming a hero. Whether you like him or not he's becoming a Paul Revere revolutionary of this era that is exposing the corruption of the U.S. Government and will influence the future forever which is why the establishments in all countries are against him. This guy has done more to help American democracy than any ACTUAL American has in more than a decade. The fact that these charges have already been dismissed multiple times, only to reappear every time there's a significant WikiLeaks release tells me all I need to know and listening to right winger like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee suggest that something big is about happen to their corporate backers and special interest.
What most governments seem not to get is that with this kind of fame, catching Assnage won't make the problem go away. Wikileaks is starting to become a movement, and not simply an organization. From the sound of it, he has plenty of people to do the work for him - he's just a symbol; and if history shows us anything, putting high profile revolutionaries behind bars does NOT make them go away. I don't know about you but I really believe that 2011 could be a start of a movement thanks to Julian Assnage.