There may be areas where mistakes are made and regrettable actions are taken. Nobody is immune from human error based on the view at the time. Were Assange to have lived in other countries and even let out a peep, about some awful wrong, he would be toast. Tortured and then killed.
The clever fool does not see that in damaging our admittedly not perfect society, that he poses NO solution. He is an manipulator who tries to damage our structure and then bask in it. The life of Riley at the home of the deluded man, who hosts him.
The ultimate result of indiscriminately tearing down a civilized society is that barbarians will take over. Those barbarians will not show the slightest mercy to these kind of shenanigans.