I say some Navy Seals should kidnap him and get him onto a military transport to Guantanamo Bay where he should be tried by a military tribunal. Once he is found guilty and executed his body should be pulverized into tiny pieces that should be thrown over the side of a fishing boat as chum.
Uh huh, I see.
And how do you expect the US Government to do that when they can't even try and convict known Al Queda terrorists currently residing in Gitmo? Once he is found guilty and executed his body should be pulverized into tiny pieces that should be thrown over the side of a fishing boat as chum.
While I'm sure that it would fulfill your desire for revenge, it would have no effect on Wikileaks. There are many other people in the shadows behind Assange -- some of which are annoyed at his attention whoring. But if even if he was gone tomorrow, nothing would change except the breathless headlines.
I just finished reading an interview with Assange in which he said they had more material than they could handle, and have disabled submissions for now. But he made one interesting point: they don't depend on the law (freedom of speech, etc.) to protect Wikileaks: their protection is technological.
It's not hard to read between the lines: Wikileaks volunteers are using various means to protect their identity, and have spread the material far and wide among themselves and the worldwide 'Net. Google for the "wikileaks insurance file" and you'll realize that there is undoubtedly a deadman switch somewhere -- if everyone associated with wikileaks were to disappear tomorrow, the AES key will be automatically released shortly thereafter.