CLANG CLANG GO THE JAIL GUITAR DOORS

Everyone else and their krack addled granny has had their say on Julian 'Casper' Assange, so I thought it only proper that I have a pop at the situation myself. After all he has made himself fair game.
Where to start though... The man himself I think, I can see why the other founders of Wikileaks were so against anyone assuming a 'public face' in regards to the group, as they predicted (and could plainly see by looking through any media and/or historical record), once a public face is attached to a cause the reporting of that cause lessens as the media intensifies its attention on that public face, this has the ultimate effect of ruining any further attempts to further the group as the compliant media focus in on attacking its public face, thereby attacking the group and cause by subtle implication, the old 'guilt by association' technique. This old chestnut never seems to fail.

Assange in Casper the friendly ghost mode

My second point leads back to the first, while everyone spends their column inches writing and slavishly reading about Assange, whether he did/did not do it, and the rights and wrongs of the obviously leant on Swedish legal authorities, potentially important information that Wikileaks is trying to present to the world is going ignored. Is this a co-incidence? There are plenty of proven, past instances of the British media using cover stories as a smokescreen to supress bigger stories after all.
And my last point is this, why are the Americans after Assange so badly why him? Granted he embarrassed them at the same time that the U.S. was in the Middle East, busy on their knees grovelling for more extensions on their loans and promising that their 'bottomless pit' bank notes really were worth the price printed on them ("honest Guv"), despite the rest of the world geting rid of them as fast as they burn, and that includes Drug dealers and slavers.
Other than that, I can only see the U.S's mania to get Assange as a short sighted move, its not as if getting him is going to stop Wikileaks in any way, in fact they are only going to turn Assange into a 'Cyber-martyr' (what a naff phrase), and if anything Wikileaks and groups sympathetic to them will increase their anti-U.S. activity.

Ahh! But then any activity by these potential groups could be labelled a 'National security threat' which would give the U.S. top Brass the opportunity to trigger the U.S Internet 'kill switch' (the one that turned off 84.000 U.S. websites last week, initally claiming they were child sex sites, only saying "sorry we made a mistake" two days later) that is capable of turning off any websites deemed a national 'threat', be it hunting clubs, political sites, single issue groups or University political history sites. Basically anyone, as was the case last week.
One thing for certain is that getting Assange might furfill the inital baying of the U.S. crowd but it wont stop any Whistle blower sites. And if the U.S. doesnt realise that then they must be as mad as Gaddafi said they are.
Who knows.