An Emersonian Hero?

The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been in the news many times over the past few weeks. Whether it be for his alleged rape in Sweden or his impact World Wide with WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks is an international news media non-profit organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous news sources and news leaks. The most noteworthy of these submissions is the publishing of the first 291 of 251,287 leaked confidential documents. While none of these documents were Top Secret they do have lasting political consequences. During one of our earlier units we studied Emerson and his beliefs in depth. Do you believe Assange is a hero based on the Emersonian beliefs we studied? Why or why not?