Julian Assange: hero or sex offender?

Julian Assange the 39 year old Australian who owns the small outlet
"Wikileaks" which he describes as a "whistle blowing website" on governments around the world is in London today, answering charges that he is responable for the leak of thousands of state documents. The London court pointed out to Mr. Assange that he could conscent to been deported to Sweeden where he faces charges on so-called "sex abuse crimes". Assange said he understood this and said he refused to be charged in Sweeden.

He is also wanted in the U.S. For the leaking of government documents,
and VISA have seezed his bank assets meaning that Mr. Assange is in quite a lot of trouble. But no one has seemed to ask the question, is he guility?
Is there not a law in the US that all documents have to be made public at some point in time nayway, so Assegne by US standards is not really breaking any laws by publishing these documents.

Assenge in an interview with the news outlet Al Jazeera's has said that WikiLeaks checks and re-checks to see if the documents (which are given to the company on a voulentary basis) are legal and offical before he even considers publishing them.

The rape charges in Sweeden are shady (to say the least....) Comming at a time when his organization is under surveillance for simply throwing light on government cover-ups and crimes. Whilest sex abuse charges are a serious question, and can never be fully put aside untill either proven right or wrong, one has to admit that the timeing for these accusations is very convienonant from a political viewpoint.

Mr. Assange should in my view go to Sweeden clear his name in front of the Sweedish authorites who are probably been backed by another hand with these charges...
And continue to publish his documents.
If a country like Iran started to shut down websites because they had damming evidence against the Iranian government on them, the west would call the act anti-democratic yet the US seneate is now shutting down websites that have WikiLeaks pages on them with the only vauge claim been that their harming Afghan civilzians (despite the fact that the WikiLeak articales show that the US is KILLING Afghan civilizans - although that should have been obvious from the start).

The west needs to stand up to it's own self-rightous, and hypocrtical standards that it lays down for others, freedom of information and freedom of speech should be allowed for all, if we want Iran to act like a free country then countries in the West should do the same insted of getting other's to follow the party line that we throw down, and not obeying it ourselves.

So is Mr. Assenge a hero or a sex abuser? Only time will fully tell
but I strongly believe that he is on the right track
but he should confirm first that he is not guility of sex abuse or rape in Sweeden,
and the West should learn to put it's money where it's Mouth is.