Last week was a rough one for Wikileaks. After shaking up the world with U.S. diplomatic cable leaks, the site got booted off of Amazon’s servers and is no longer able to accept donations through PayPal. Some are applauding the companies for playing by the rules, while others feel that they’re behaving like cowards afraid government pressure. What do you think?
On the plus side, Wikileaks found an unlikely supporter in Texas republican (and likely presidential candidate) Ron Paul. A longtime critic of the Federal Reserve, Paul told Fox Business:
What we need is more WikiLeaks about the Federal Reserve. Can you imagine what it’d be like if we had every conversation in the last 10 years with our Federal Reserve people, the Federal Reserve chairman, with all the central bankers of the world and every agreement or quid-pro-quo they have? It would be massive. People would be so outraged.
In a free society we’re supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we’re in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.
This whole notion that Assange, who’s an Australian, that we want to prosecute him for treason — I mean, aren’t they jumping to a wild conclusion? I mean, why don’t we prosecute The New York Times or anybody that releases this?
Despite losing Amazon and PayPal, I believe that Wikileaks will become more powerful in the near future. When thinking about the situation, I hear The Carpenter’s “We’ve Only Just Begun” in my head. I’m sure the site will reveal bigger and more damaging info soon. Don’t you agree?
Ron Paul….you magnificent bastard.
Yeah, I mostly agree with him on this issue. I love how Sarah Palin thinks that the U.S. should put Assange on trial for treason…even though he's an Australian…running a business in Sweden.
Gates and Paul are the only two who have made any sense in the discussion so far. Sarah Palin once again says another dumb thing.
I think the saddest part of that statement was the part where you said "almost pulled." So TNA let a guy go out and perform under the influence? Great job TNA. They're lucky no one got hurt.
ron paul is in TNA now?
i gotta start watching wrestling again
for serious, though, im a huge fan of ron paul…not so much RAND paul though