Even though Julian Assange was passed over by Time magazine for its "Person of the Year" honor, the WikiLeaks founder remains the international person of the moment. And naturally, that means he's also become the darling of some bold-faced names along the way famous folk who hail his role as a thorn in the side of the world's power establishment.
For example, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore helped to fund Assange's release from a British jail. In addition to contributing money for Assange's bail, Moore explained that he was extending him "the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving."
Moore said that he thinks that if a site with the influence and reach of WikiLeaks had been around a decade ago, the course of American history would be very different.
"We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now dead," Moore wrote on his website. "Just imagine if the men who planned this war crime back in 2002 had a WikiLeaks to deal with. They might not have been able to pull it off. The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy. That guarantee has now been ripped from them, and I hope they are never able to operate in secret again."
Other supporters of Assange are British socialite Jemima Khan and Bianca Jagger, former wife of Mick Jagger.
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