wikileaks petition ; UNITED WE STAND

We also need to send a clear signal to the financial service corporations that have proven so easily co-optable in the silencing efforts targeting WikiLeaks. Cancel at least one of your Visa, MC, paypal or amazon cards and let them know why you're doing it. Here's my own letter which may serve as a template of what you could write your bank or CC company:

Dear Sir or Madam:

This letter is my official notice that, for reasons explained further below, I will be closing by the end of this month and this year my Visa credit card account number XXXXX operated by Bank YYYYYY. I paid the account's balance of $ZZZZ yesterday via online access and to my knowledge all my fiscal responsibilities with this credit card account have thus been fulfilled. Please close my account and include a notation in the report to the credit bureaus that it was "closed by request of cardholder." Once this is done, please send me written confirmation of the closure of my account, in good standing and at my request. Should there be any discrepancies then please contact me by mail at the address below.

The specific reason why I am closing my account is because I object most strongly to the decision by Visa Europe Ltd. to suspend its financial services for, and processing of, payments to WikiLeaks.

This suspension is in my opinion directly contradictory to both the Corporate Responsibility statement in the website of Visa Europe Ltd. and the Responsible Business Practices statement presented on the website of Visa Inc., because it interferes directly and deliberately with the freedom of expression, freedom of the press and transparency of government around the world.

As I am sure the legal specialists of both companies are well aware, the US Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld the right of news media to publish classified government documents, for example the “Pentagon Papers” disclosing extensive deception and mendacity by government representatives concerning the war in Vietnam and neighboring countries (New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713). WikiLeaks has in no way transgressed the strict criteria set by the Supreme Court for very exceptionally permitting any governmental restraints on freedom of expression (Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697). Furthermore, the WikiLeaks website and its managing personnel are neither US citizens nor US residents, rendering this a matter of international law and thus well outside any rights of direct interference by the US government and its representatives, or any legal basis for its likely requests to target WikiLeaks by blocking payment services.

In view of all the above, I am closing my XXXXX Visa account because this has my highest credit line and therefore sends the strongest signal to Visa Inc. and Visa Europe Ltd. To demonstrate my resolve, I include with this letter fragments of the cut-up credit card in question. Should Visa persist in its repressive actions, then I will not hesitate to also close my other Visa accounts with other financial institutions.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Operation Payback Spokesman Leaves Name in PR Meta Data

The rogue hacker group Anonymous, which has been making headlines for their repeated DDoS attacks dubbed Operation Payback, issued a press release. The most interesting piece of information int the release, though, was the name of the text's author, which was present in the PDF's meta data...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/10196-Operation-Payback-Spokesman-Leaves-...

almost half way there already jeez... be cool if it broke 1mil in a few more hour

I "signed" the petition. Who else?

Freedom of the Press is paramount to a free and well informed society! The 24-hour propaganda stations are not real news... wikileaks is! Assange is no terrorist... fight the power!!!

+^'d!!!

as long as 33 dollar jersey's are being sold we will not give up! fear the people because the people haz internetz, and internetz haz dangerous kittenz

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"
— George Orwell

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM Join Anon the stronger we are the longer we last.

now i am not saying spam the hell out of bank sites until they are useless, but when you threaten our freedoms we will fight and if taking down a few sites will get you guys to listen then so be it.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOREVER !!!! ( Wikileaks is the NEW press )