Don't do the crime if you aren't ready...

As I browse the internets today, I see a headline at MSN.com noting that Wikileaks founder Assange fears that if he is extradited he could wind up being sent to the U.S.A. and eventually executed.  Really?  He believes he'd be executed for what he's done?!

He's not a citizen (to the best of my knowledge, admittedly I've not looked it up to confirm, but I think I'm correct on this) of the U.S.A. so can't really be charged with treason, correct?  He could be charged with espionage and other similar crimes I would think, but since he's not a traitor, could he really be charged with a capitol crime and would he really face execution for his crimes?

Regardless, that all misses the real point I would make here which is that this piece of human garbage should have thought through his actions before commiting them and before encouraging others to commit treason.  Now that he could perhaps face justice, now he worries.  He should have worried before doing the wrong thing, before commiting potential crimes against this state and/or our allies.

Honestly at this point, I think he deserves one of the punishments he is supposedly concerned with receiving -- a one way ticket to life at GITMO.  Send him there and give him all the water he cares to drink   Just for good measure, perhaps import the water from Mexico

The lesson should be learned here again: if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.  On top of that, add in the lesson that so-called journalists are not the ones who can decide if the information they have is or is not supposed to be released to the general public.  If you are in possession of materials that are known to be classified they belong to the governments that labeled them that way.  You can't simply release them to the world and let everyone have fun with them.  If you obtain them somehow you are still responsible for helping to protect the content there-in and you don't get to decide that the public has a right to know.  There are means and methods of getting the material to the public and those procedures should be followed.