Julian Assange: Hero or Zero?

Regarding the Today's News Radio 1310 KLIX instapoll: "Wikileak's Julian Assange: Hero or Zero," I was appalled to see that most Magic Valley residents who've voted so far believe that Wikileaks founder should be put in jail for exercising his First Amendment. 

If you are in line with the neoconservatives on this issues then you will object and say something like..."He doesn't have a 'First Amendment' right because Julian Assange is not an American!"  How pathetic that we have forgotten the Declaration of Independence when our founders declared that "all men are created equal, that are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted..."

Our Creator gives us the right to free speech, and the Government is instituted (it's whole reason for being) to protect that right irregardless if that person is American or not, but should I argue that as "Americans," our Government should be most proactive in protecting these rights across borders and being a steward of freedom throughout the world. 

The social philosophy laid out in Orwell's 1984 has come to America when we as society demand the silence of truth.  Ron Paul says in his book, Revolution: "Truth is treason in an empire of lies." 

I urge you to consider the precedence being set here.  If we argue for the imprisonment of open government, then we will get a closed government, no longer respecting rights for which it's whole purpose of existing is meant to protect.

Please go here and vote "Hero." http://vip.klixam.com/asp3/SurveyDetail.aspx?SurveyScheduleID=57147

Here are some other vantage points that go further on this position:
http://www.ronpaul.com/2010-12-05/wikileaks-exposes-u-s-governments-delusional-foreign-policy/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgkoTIyuElY