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I actually have read some of what he has written, though I don't know that it would be the same things you are referring to. And no, I don't regard him as a whistleblower; he's more of a would-be revolutionary, one with technological savvy that he employs in the service of his revolution. But I infer from what I have read that an aversion to institutional secrecy of any kind, and especially that of a "hegemonic power" such as the US is central to his philosophy (he thinks that exposure of what the institutions want kept secret will bring about collapse or desuetude of the institutions). If that is his credo, and I believe it is, then it applies equally to institutions such as wikileaks and the people who think they should be making decisions about society as well -- people like Julian Assange. If he places himself in a position where he believes he has the right to make decisions that affect other people who didn't ask him to make those decisions for them, then he has in essence declared open season on himself. He doesn't have the right to make rules for others that he isn't willing to live by himself.

And again -- I still think the rape prosecution is a sham. It's an excuse to hold him until the powers that be can figure out what to charge him with. That's not how any government of laws is supposed to be operating -- not Sweden, not the UK, not the US.