House Homeland Security Committee chiarman Rep. Peter King (R – NY) is seeking to impose an embargo on whistleblower organization WikiLeaks, forbidding the non-profit from doing business in the United States and banning all American companies from doing business with them.
The call would put WikiLeaks on the SDN list, which is a nearly 500 page-long list of individuals and groups which the US Treasury Department is sanctioning at any given time. The list chiefly targets terrorists.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slammed Rep. King’s call today, insisting it was an effort to put a “Cuban-style trade embargo around the truth.” Assange added hat just because his organization “terrorizes” politicians with the release of factual information doesn’t mean they are automatically terrorists.
Officials have been calling for moves against WikiLeaks for months now, and several have called for Assange’s execution. At the same time, there does not appear to be any legal basis for charging Assange with much of anything under US law, nor is there a legal precident for adding WikiLeaks to the SDN list simply for publishing embarrassing documents.
Keep exposing the US government for the idiots and totalitarian wannabes that they are. The whole world is looking at the US and going "wtf were we thinking allowing those morons to rule over us?"
Ridiculous. They tell us if we have nothing to hide then we shouldn't mind having the government know everything we do… Never applies to them…
Is any other State within The Glorious Union as chronically plagued with such execrement posing as Representation as to be found here in NY?
With this authoritarian goon-like jackass chairing das Heimatland Security committee, don't expect any forthcoming congressional relief from the toady Janet Napolitano's ongoing efforts to turn this country into a full-fledged absolutist, locked-down police state.
Peter Kin (IRA – West Belfast) should be put on a terrorist watch list (again).
King was a bag man for IRA terorrists.
OOOOOOO I have a funny feeling that this like many other of the strange apparitions is not as it appears… Peter King….Hey Pete, keep up the good werk..!! Attack, marginalize and radicalize the WIKI crew…… as it's tsunami of revelations ingulfs the body politic……… The more you hector WIKI, the more adverse the leaks will become……… We want the 911 cables…!!!
"…there does not appear to be any legal basis for charging Assange…" wait a heartbeat or 2… what makes you think that that is going to stop them from doing what they want to do? Just because Assange appears to have not broken any US laws doesn't mean the USG is not going to doing anything they can to stop the further release of embarrassing documents – which the Guardian and NYT and others ALL release prior to WIKI releases, btw. And with the Patriot Act coming up for renewal in the next couple of weeks, I would not be surprised in the least to find out that King or someone of his ilk slipped in to the legislation a small little clause that will justify the USG taking wiki down. You know, what's a little reverse engineering to enable the fascists.
When a government or its representatives acting as this man Peter king dose is a sign of two thing, one is the defeat of a government by the truth and the other is the sign proving that what has been said about government is true and that’s why government tries to silent the truth.
There is this movie called Pirate Radio, where Rock and Roll was against public policy in England in the mid 60’s, and the movie demonstrated clearly how the government is more than willing to just change the law to fit its needs…
That was the bad news, the good news is that Rock and Roll like the truth is, is still here…so ya the G in the US will play their little games and ass hole like King will always be around, but there are a whole lot of us now that want the truth, and now we have the internet, and if they close that up their will be Pirate Internet…The truth is like drugs, and now that we have had a taste of it, we want more and more and more, and no one is going to care if the Government likes it or not…
Why bother with useless embargoes. Just send in the drones, kill Assange, and his henchmen.
BTW, the Gubmint knows exactly where Assange is right now, confined to an English mansion. A perfect drone target.
It is not hyperbole to call Peter King a fascist.