The crimes committed against Assange are not the death of journalism. They are the death of all civil rights -- aka totalitarianism. The only question is how long until all nation-states can treat every human on the planet as the West is now treating Assange. Assange, and many others like him, are the tip of the iceberg; the rest of humanity is the rest of the iceberg.

Those who enter government, in whatever role, simply lose their ability to distinguish right from wrong.