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Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down

Posted by timothy on from the sucker-punch dept.

Scrameustache writes "The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government. Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist. The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at WikiLeaks and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan."

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  1. Oh Julian!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You've got such beautiful hair! You look like such a daring revolutionary. I hope they don't muss it up when you are in prison.

  2. Re:Well, I do not usually get involved but... by master0ne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1818524&cid=33877336 - you contradict yourself? so which is it? you ARE or ARE NOT religous?

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  3. Re:Uh by Maestro4k · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    il-lic-it/i`lisit/

    Adjective: Forbidden by law, rules, or custom: "illicit drugs"; "illicit sex".

    Many of us consider the changes made by the PATRIOT act and others to be pretty damn illicit. We've almost to the point where you have to show papers to travel by air inside the country for example, and how many times have we heard that audits show the FBI has abused the national security letters powers the PATRIOT act gave them? Since 9/11 it's become very common practice by law enforcement at all levels to use "combating terrorism" as an excuse to restrain civil liberties. Check out Carlos Miller's Photography is not a Crime blog for lots and lots of examples of that. These are things that are most definitely forbidden by custom, some of them by the law. So yeah, typo on the poster's fault, but sadly, it still works. Al Queda used terror to get the US government to introduce lots of illicit changes to the country.

  4. Re:Uh by gizmonic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, but the Patriot Act *was* an illicit change, so his spelling was correct, it was his grammar that was off. :)

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  5. Since the entire subthread is offtopic... by mcgrew · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your sig -- do you mean Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, or the fictional Buddy Noone? And why would either of those guys write a nerd joke, anyway?

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