Also, what your saying is...basically anyone who is doing anything famous or important can rape as many people as they want, because we have to assume they are innocent because they are doing something important.

You don't see the logical fallacy there?

But he's being set up, because the governments want to put themselves in a no-win situation... and the women find it fun to constantly be showered with death threats and hate mail.

Besides, nobody believes rape victims in normal circumstances.

The rape conviction rate in Sweden is less then 8%.

It's the WORST possible crime to frame someone for.

If the US government wanted to frame him... what they would of did was dump a bunch of child pronography on his harddrive then came up with an excuse to raid his house and harddrive.

Nobody defends a pedophile.  Rapists... rapists are pretty much your most defended criminal.  Most people take a rapist's side by default with the slightest of info digging about the victims past.

When any group/person/organization has this many and quantity of high profile groups working against it. Is doing something they dislike. Considering this is about open expression of information and information is power... long live Wikileaks :P

Anyways I'm betting these companies are cutting deals with the fellow due to pressure. In the end legal is not moral. Would you be better known for legally killing people as the case of Bophal and Union Carbide or be morally right? I don't know about anyone else, but I would rather be morally right.

Hacking people with DDoS attacks is not "morally right"

Nor is forcing someone to host something they don't agree with.

Do you even read what you write before you post it? He was giving away US secrets!! Do you seriously think that's okay? Would you be happy if all of your country's secrets got out? How anyone can defend him is beyond me. I hope he gets killed, or at least put in a dark room for 40 years. 

You'd figure Anonymous would support this guy on principle anyway. Anonymous doesn't need a good excuse to fuck things up, and would probably have gotten together one day and said "hey, let's DDoS PayPal for some epic win!" in any case.

At least they're putting their collective energies to something halfway positive

Eh, i liked em better when they were harrassing scientologists.  I mean, this is really just a hypocritical case right here.  They are trying to protect someones freedom of expression, by taking away someones freedom of expression.

Is it really when you look at the specific charges against him? Supposedly, he boinked one chick even though the condom broke, and then he boinked another chick without a condom at all, and the two chicks found out about one another and compared notes and got really pissed off. Under fucked up Swedish laws that seem to have been designed solely to appease militant feminists, this may constitute rape. I'd like to think that my government would at least coerce women to claim to have been really raped, not just Swedish raped.

Disappointed that he just handed himself in - was expecting his location to be stormed, or something exciting xP

a) No, it did not. It started before the Cables, but after the Afghan War diaries.

b) Sweden is doing what the USA is telling it to do. And the American government is trying to stop this man with all of their might. They clearly don't want any of this stuff getting out, which is believable, because the cables show that they are a bunch of spineless cowards who refuse to say what they believe for fear of vaguely offending someone - even when they all believe the same thing.