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Press Statement: In this election, vote with your wallet, Vote WikiLeaks
Wednesday 3rd October, 08:00 BST
“Help WikiLeaks run the United States over the next four years”
WikiLeaks enters U.S. election campaign.
Last Friday, on 28 September, the Pentagon again threatened
WikiLeaks. Pentagon spokesman George Little demanded WikiLeaks destroy
its publications, including the Iraq War logs which revealed the
killings of more than 100,000 civilians. Little said: “continued
possession by WikiLeaks of classified information belonging to the
United States government represents a continuing violation of law”. The
Pentagon also again “warned Mr Assange and WikiLeaks” against
“soliciting” material from U.S. military whistleblowers.
In response, WikiLeaks has decided to intervene in the U.S. election campaign.
The United States government claims Mr Assange and the WikiLeaks
organization are within its jurisdiction. In reply, we place the Obama
administration within our jurisdiction. All American school children are
taught that being subject to laws without representation is an
injustice. This is the backbone of the American Revolution. We claim our
representation and now initiate a campaign to transform Democratic and
Republican votes into economic and political support for WikiLeaks and
its First Amendment values. This election day, do not vote for the
Republican or Democratic parties. Instead, cast the only vote that
matters. Vote with your wallet – vote for WikiLeaks.
The Democratic Party promised to open government. But instead it is
building a state within a state, placing nearly five million Americans
under the national security clearance system. It has classified more
documents than any previous administration, classifying even the process
used to decide who will live and who will be killed. The U.S.
administration hurtles towards dystopia: secret laws, secret processes,
secret budgets, secret bailouts, secret killings, secret mass spying,
secret drones and secret detention without charge. The collapse of the
Soviet Union could have led to the withdrawal of the U.S. security
state, but without moral competition from another system it has grown
unchecked to influence almost every American policy. Four more years in
the same direction cannot be tolerated.
The Obama administration continues to conduct a “whole of government”
investigation of “unprecedented scale and nature” into WikiLeaks and
its people. It has fuelled the extrajudicial banking blockade against
the organization and has held an alleged WikiLeaks source, Bradley
Manning, in conditions that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on
Torture, Juan Mendez, found had amounted to torture. Mr Assange has been
formally found to be a political refugee, but U.S. ambassadors warned
countries such as Switzerland not to offer him asylum. President Obama
has called Bradley Manning guilty before trial and Vice-President Biden
has labelled Julian Assange a "hi-tech terrorist". The Obama-Biden
campaign brags of having prosecuted twice as many national security
whistleblowers as “all previous administrations combined”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis.... This is not acceptable.
Politicians always say your decision, come election-time, will
determine the future. But, as has been seen with the Obama
administration, deciding on who gets into formal office is not a
meaningful choice, because when you vote your party into government you
also vote the government, including all its agencies and friends, into
your party. Thus, parties taking office are eliminated as the
restraining voice of opposition.
But there is another option.
Government agencies and corporations know that knowledge is power.
That is why they spend literally billions to keep their plans and
actions secret from all of us.
They know that together we can force them to act differently.
It was WikiLeaks’ revelations – not the actions of President Obama –
that forced the U.S. administration out of the Iraq War. By exposing the
killing of Iraqi children, WikiLeaks directly motivated the Iraqi
government to strip the U.S. military of legal immunity, which in turn
forced the U.S. withdrawal.
http://salon.com/2011/10/23/wikilea...
It was WikiLeaks’ revelations and pan-Arab activists, not the Obama
administration, that helped to trigger the Arab Spring. While WikiLeaks
was exposing dictators from Yemen to Cairo, Vice-President Joseph Biden
was calling Hosni Mubarak a democrat, Hillary Clinton was calling his
government “stable” and the U.S. administration was colluding with
Yemeni dictator Saleh to bomb his own people.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201... http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/...
And it was WikiLeaks’ revelations, not the White House, that led to
the reform of the largest children’s hospital network in the United
States.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Report_on...
Last year, the Pentagon got $662 billion for its 2012 war chest. For
WikiLeaks to continue its work to bring transparency to powerful
institutions through the mass publication of leaks with the greatest
potential to lead to more just forms of governance, we need to build a
bigger ’war chest’ too.
In early December 2010, WikiLeaks was receiving $120,000 per day in
donations from the general public. In response to pressure from
Washington, and entirely outside the law, financial institutions
including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America and Western Union,
erected a banking blockade against WikiLeaks, stripping the organization
of 95% of its funding. Although WikiLeaks has won every court case to
date against the blockade, these Washington-linked institutions continue
to appeal.
So, for the next 34 days, beginning on 3 October 2012, we are
launching a new fundraising campaign running up to Election Day, 6
November.
You can still donate to WikiLeaks using a variety of easy methods,
including workarounds for Visa, MasterCard and PayPal. These donations
go to fund WikiLeaks’ publishing and infrastructure costs and our legal
costs to fight the financial blockade. We are expecting an answer
shortly on Visa’s appeal against the Icelandic court’s ruling that
declared their blockade illegal, and decision-makers are expected to
meet soon on our European anti-trust banking case.
If you wish to contribute to Julian Assange’s legal defence costs,
you can still use your credit card but you will need to make a separate
donation to the Julian Assange and WikiLeaks Staff Defence Fund,
administered and audited by Derek Rothera & Co. Full details are on
our donate page. You can also donate to the Bradley Manning Defense Fund
from our site.
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting", Milan Kundera.
Julian Assange
