WikiLeaks Urges Boycott of Bank of America
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WikiLeaks has asked customers to boycott Bank of America after the bank said it would stop processing payments intended for the whistle-blower organization.
The Charlotte Observer reported Friday evening Bank of America had joined other financial institutions in declining to process payments intended for WikiLeaks. Shortly after, WikiLeaks tweeted a link to the story and encouraged supporters to make donations.
In a later tweet, WikiLeaks asked, “all people who love freedom close out their accounts at Bank of America.” A later tweet said, “Does your business do business with Bank of America? Our advise is to place your funds somewhere safer.”
The bank’s decision to cease processing payments follows Julian Assange’s remarks about a planned “megaleak” early next year involving a major bank. Although Assange never specified which bank, in an 2000 interview with Computerworld he said WikiLeaks held five gigabytes worth of information from the hard drive of a Bank of America executive.
In a statement on Friday, Bank of America justified its decision to cut ties with the whistle-blower, saying it was based on its “reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.”
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Let’s look at a couple of factors here: 1. What WikiLeaks is doing is border-line terrorism. BofA may have just cause to block transactions to them if they are classified by the US Government as a Terrorist Organization. Regardless of what supports may think, thats just how things are. 2. If your friend told the whole town that you were cheating on your Wife, knowing that your wife will most definitely find out, but came to you a week later and wanted to borrow your car… Would you let him borrow it? HELL NO! Why should we expect BofA to cooperate with people who have the intention of damaging their business, especially in this economy, the last thing we need is for yet another bank to go under.
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Julian Assange is doing the right and noble thing by circulating what has already been leaked out. It shows the US government lies to the American public and puts soldiers and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan in harms way. The US government is now run by corporations and WikiLeaks is the beginning to stop this. The first amendment protects the right of speech and press, and WikiLeaks and its founder are practicing their first amendment rights.
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