making an example of 'em

Far from suggesting that Assange himself is a Company agent, Assange's sources are compromised when they reveal wrongdoing and downright disinformation- Iran's gonna nuke us!- that has been thoroughly examined elsewhere and pointedly ignored by the main$tream.

I have no doubt that if American Justice got their hands on him he'd be in jail for a long, long, time, and probably treated with the best Gitmo has to offer its scapegoats.

The main$tream's the one owned by the Company. Greenwald captures the essence of their reaction:

...That's CNN's journalism: uncritically passing on one government claim after the next -- without any contradiction, challenge, or scrutiny. Other than Blitzer's anger over the Government's failure to more effectively keep secrets from everyone, what would an overtly state-run media do differently? Absolutely nothing. It's just so revealing that the sole criticism of the Government allowed to be heard is that they haven't done enough to keep us all in the dark...

You can bet this will certainly serve as an excuse for them to try.

I feel nothing but pity for Assange, who is being set up in a grand global scale for a lynching in a grand global style. When they capture him, they'll hammer the nails into the coffin of the free press. But it's already embalmed, people realize this.