Posted on 10/15/2010 5:58:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
(Newser) -- WikiLeaks funding has been cut off thanks to what Julian Assange calls financial warfare by the US government. In an email to Assange, Moneybookers, the company that collected donations for WikiLeaks, said it was closing WikiLeaks' account "following the recent publicity and subsequent addition of the WikiLeaks entity to blacklists in Australia and watchlists in the USA."
Moneybookers' decision came on Aug. 13, just days after the Pentagon publicly threatened reprisals against WikiLeaks. Moneybookers tells the Guardian that it "never had any request, inquiry, or correspondence from any authority regarding this former customer," but couldn't explain how that squared with the email's mention of a blacklist. Assange, meanwhile, is furious. "This is likely to cause a huge backlash against Moneybookers," the WikiLeaks founder predicts. "Craven behavior in relation to the US government is unlikely to be seen sympathetically."
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"Craven behavior in relation to the US government is unlikely to be seen sympathetically."He doesn't know the half of it.
The dude will one day... in a very surprising way... have some kind of accident... of the permanent kind. He has pissed off the wrong people... the kind that do not “exist”.
LLS
Awww ... those poor state secrets leakers are crying foul. No tears for the lives they’ve endangered, just for their lost revenue. Cry me a river.
Hey, Arsenugget, mess with the bull, get the horns.
What is it about liberals that escapes them the simple rules of physics?
I always get a kick out how loud the crying is from these little punks when their games end up backfiring big time.
He picked the wrong entity to screw with, that’s for sure.
Usually it’s their last breath.
Guys makes it his ‘policy’ to divulge thousands of classified documents that could potentially do harm to the US, its soldiers, and allies and he gets teary when the US hits back? Dude, just be glad its the US and cut your loses, if it were Iran you were doing this to, you would have had a bomb under your bed after the first leak.
Yeah buddy!
LLS
I expect to read how a robbery gone bad has taken the life of this scum. There will be many operators toasting to the headline.
Consequences.
“WikiLeaks funding has been cut off...”
How disturbing. Here’s an idea: you want cash, compete in the marketplace. Uncle Sugerdaddy is cutting back.
Wouldn’t surprise me a bit.
LLS
It’s a start.
The way to get to the bastard is to get rid of the jerkoffs who are not in hiding but supporting his sorry ass. It’s all about the money, boys!
I have a suspicion that he’s going to suddenly fall silent, and after an interval (to establish an alibi) his safe-house operators will come forward and claim that something has happened to him.
Funny he doesn’t work for a living.
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