Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Passport Confiscated

Taco Cowboy writes "The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in Melbourne last week. While Assange has made himself particularly unpopular with the US military by publishing video of attacks on civilians in Iraq, he's been something of a thorn in the side for the Australian government too. Last year, Wikileaks published a list of websites which were to be banned under the government's proposed Internet filter. While the aim of the filter is to block extreme pornography and the like, the blacklist included a number of more prosaic sites such as those of a travel company and a dentist.

Comments

say goodnight

[FudRucker]

the powers that be eventually will either pull the plug or filter the internet, making the ability to express ideas, opinions and communications among the common folk more difficult. it was nice while it lasted.

Re:For a Whole Fifteen Minutes

[commodore64_love]

Intimidation, even if only temporary, is still intimidation. It's the rise of Neo-feudalism, where sovereign citizens are being demoted to Serfs that must bow before their new Lords in government.

True the new masters are now elected, but an elected Lord is still a Lord and we serfs are still serfs. Our "rights" can be revoked at any time (see the Renewed Patriot Act and revocation of the right to remain silent). Rights come from our Creator (god or nature) and the Neo-feudalists need to be stopped from turning back the clock 400 years.