They are giving their time, CPU cycles and bandwidth, altruistically.

Sorry, you want to use the Daily Mail, a UK tabloid famous for it's high quantities of bullshit, as a SOURCE?

No, I don't think so. It's a shame so many Americans, who don't know the Daily Mail obviously, have 'labelled' you Informative.

Here is an article with some much more reliable sources, which detail the ladies in question connections...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27005.htm

No, not Osama Bin Laden. Don't be silly.

They moved heaven and earth to get this guy. I think that shows us all, where their priorities lie.

That's ironic.
1) There's good evidence the CIA *are* behind it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27005.htm

2) Elected officials (Joe Liberman) took credit for it
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/01/amazon/
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/how_lieberman_got_amazon_to_drop_wikileaks.php

Because his phone call to Amazon will function as a de-facto "internet kill-switch", just as little Joe has always dreamed of having.

Not being from a gun friendly country, it was my mistake in terminology.

You are correct, sir.

Indeed. Think about the Bible, where God tells all sorts of horrible stories about the devil.

The Devil has been quite silent on the matter.

I think we can see who's being the bigger person here, and who's the whiny bitch.

Brilliant. So an American high school student watches the bullets fall from his friends clip as he fires on a random teacher, and thinks "I shall call it Gravity, yo."

Well that's just brilliant. After two weeks of cable releases from Wikileaks, the rest of the world can look forward with confidence to the US invasion of Wikipedia.

Because human beings stating flat-out that something is impossible, only for Nature to say "Fuck you, human", is more common than you think.

It's only less common today because we're not quite as arrogant as we used to be.

Such blatant hypocrisy hasn't stopped the courts from siding with the corporations against the consumer in the past.

This is more about setting the precedent that piracy is wrong, not about the merits of this particular case.

Wait...what? I thought they were going after him for alleged rape.

Like that has anything to do with it.

They want to treat him like a terrorist because of the most recent leak.

You have enough idiots claiming the guy should be shot, assassinated, charged with treason (even though he's not American), and all sorts of other things which both fail to recognise that American law doesn't blanket the globe, and American due process should make bullet-to-the-brain an impossible solution.

Right-wing fruitbats... They'll demand Assanges blood, but still try to use the leaks to criticise the Obama administration.

"not unique" is not a synonym for normal.

It is absolutely despicable, but unfortunately, despicable prosecutorial conduct has become a regular feature in American jurisprudence.
Particularly, when you can describe the accused in terms like "terrorist" or "enemy combatant".

On the contrary, businesses, corporations, private tyrannies, they have all shown time and time again that they will destroy lives, towns, environments, etc... all for the sake of the bottom dollar. They are utterly ruthless and amoral. If corporate personhood were actually embodied in a single person, it would be a sociopathic pathology. We NEED the government as the only entity big enough, to reign in these sociopaths. This would happen, if government actually represented the people (the ideal) but until that day, business will have to content itself with spending large-ish sums of money on lobbyists to buy the government it needs.