Assange matters and is an uncomfortable reminder of how easily one can be stripped of basic human rights an declared persona non grata by the establishment media for telling the truth. Don't care where he got the information from, everything Assange released was nothing but the cold, hard factual truth. The real crime is that Assange went behind bars and not the corrupt assholes that he exposed.
The fact that media outlets such as WP are lamenting Assange for not ALSO releasing dirt on the political opposition, should tell you more than enough about the true reasons why they went after him. He is by any means of definition a political prisoner that will likely never get the chance to a fair trial. If that doesn't at the very least concern you about the true state of human rights protection in the West, then you've got no right to complain about China, Russia and any other sh*thole stomping down on individual rights.
