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- mechj944, on 02/19/2008, -2/+498The website is still accessible with if you know the ip address.
http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks
They can try, but the only true way to censor the internet is to shut the whole thing down. - inactive, on 02/19/2008, -14/+246Here it comes folks, the result of HR 1955 / S 1959 aka the "Thought Crimes Act of 2007" aka "The Ideological Profiling Act of 2008"
- unlawflcombatnt, on 02/19/2008, -11/+222The day is now here, where Corporations have completely taken over the US Government.
Below is a link to wikileaks that has the story:
http://wikileaks.org.uk/wiki/Wikileaks.org_under_i ...
However, given that our government Corporatocrats will likely block this site as well, I'll post the entire article here (The injunction itself is in graphic format, so I'll try to copy it and upload a link to the copy in a subsequent post.)
I'd urge everyone to go to the above link and copy down the information, before this link is also removed by our Corporate-controlled government.
Here's the text from the link: ( http://wikileaks.org.uk/wiki/Wikileaks.org_under_i ...
"The Cayman Islands is located between Cuba and Honduras. In July 2000, the United States Department of the Treasure Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued an advisory states stating that there were "serious deficiencies in the counter-money laundering systems of the Cayman Islands", "Cayman Islands law makes it impossible for the supervisory and regulatory authority to obtain information held by financial institutions regarding their client's identity", "Failure of financial institutions in the Cayman Islands to report suspicious transactions is not subject to penalty" and that "These deficiencies, among others, have caused the Cayman Islands to be identified by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (The 'FATF') as non-cooperative in the fight against money laundering". As of 2006 the U.S. State Department listed the Cayman Islands in its money laundering "Countries of Primary Concern".
The Cayman's case is not the first time Wikileaks has tackled bad banks. In the second half of last year Wikileaks exposed over $4,500,000,000's worth of money laundering including by the former president of Kenya, Daniel Arap Moi (see http://wikileaks.be/wiki/The_looting_of_Kenya_unde ... which became the Guardian's front page story in September 2007 and swung the Kenyan vote by 10% leading into the December 2007 election and http://wikileaks.be/wiki/A_Charter_House_of_horror ... reported in the Nairobi paper The Standard and now the subject of a High Court Case in Kenya).
To find an injunction similar to the Cayman's case, we need to go back to Monday June 15, 1971 when the New York Times published excepts of of Daniel Ellsberg's leaked "Pentagon Papers" and found itself enjoined the following day. The Wikileaks injunction is the equivalent of forcing the Times' printers to print blank pages and its power company to turn off press power. The supreme court found the Times censorship injunction unconstitutional in a 6-3 decision.
The Wikileaks.org injunction is ex-parte, engages in prior restraint and is clearly unconstitutional. It was granted on Thursday afternoon by California district court judge White, Bush appointee and former prosecutor.
The order was written by Cayman Island's Bank Julius Baer lawyers and was accepted by judge White without amendment, or representations by Wikileaks or amicus. The case is over several Wikileaks articles, public commentary and documents dating prior to 2003. The documents allegedly reveal secret Julius Baer trust structures used for asset hiding, money laundering and tax evasion. The bank alleges the documents were disclosed to Wikileaks by offshore banking whistleblower and former Vice President the Cayman Island's operation, Rudolf Elmer. Unable to lawfully attack Wikileaks servers which are based in several countries, the order was served on the intermediary Wikileaks purchased the 'Wikileaks.org' name through -- California registrar Dynadot, who then used its access to the internet website name registration system to delete the records for 'Wikileaks.org'. The order also enjoins every person who has heard about the order from from even linking to the documents.
In order to deal with Chinese censorship, Wikileaks has many backup sites such as wikileaks.be (Belgium) and wikileaks.de (Germany) which remain active. Wikileaks never expected to be using the alternative servers to deal with censorship attacks, from, of all places, the United States.
The order is clearly unconstitutional and exceeds its jurisdiction.
Wikileaks will keep on publishing, in-fact, given the level of suppression involved in this case, Wikileaks will step up publication of documents pertaining to illegal or unethical banking practices.
Wikileaks has six pro-bono attorney's in S.F on roster to deal with a legal assault, however Wikileaks was given only hours notice "by email" prior to the hearing. Wikileaks was NOT represented. Wikileaks pre-litigation California council Julie Turner attended the start of hearing in a personal capacity but was then asked to leave the court room.
White signed the order, drafted by the Cayman Islands bank's lawyers without a single amendment.
The injunction claims to be permanent, although the case is only preliminary.
Wikileaks remains available publishing from non-US, non-Chinese jurisdictions including http://wikileaks.cx/ and http://wikileaks.be/. See http://wikileaks.cx/wiki/Wikileaks:Cover_Names for more.
http://wikileaks.cx/wiki/Bank_Julius_Baer_vs._Wiki ...
http://wikileaks.cx/wiki/images/Dynadot-injunction ...
http://wikileaks.cx/wiki/Die_Akten_des_Hurricane_M ...
http://wikileaks.cx/wiki/Clouds_on_the_Cayman_tax_ ..." - eurekaspringsar, on 02/19/2008, -10/+208Must have been a typo in the constitution.. Should have been Free Peach, not Free Speech.
- inactive, on 02/19/2008, -3/+149The site still works.
Second, they can't bury it because another will spring up in its place.
Kudos to this idiotic California Corporate "Judge".
He just woke me up to a site I never knew about and will enjoy perusing tonight. - eltolete, on 02/19/2008, -4/+143The tighter they squeeze, the more websites that will slip through their fingers.
- AshScholl, on 02/19/2008, -3/+114Don't give them any ideas...
- limezor2, on 02/19/2008, -7/+1161984 is happening :(
- Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 02/19/2008, -33/+128Dear Supporter,
Today is the sixth anniversary of my "Prayer for America" speech. Please take a moment to read the speech or watch it on YouTube:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8528466337 ...
In light of the events that have taken place since I wrote and delivered it on February 17, 2002, you will see that long before anyone else in Congress saw the danger our country was headed toward, I spoke out -- truthfully and forcefully.
I need your help to continue to be the voice of the people. My primary election is on March 4th, just a little more than two weeks from now. Today's newspaper is reporting, once again, that I am being outspent heavily in my efforts for re-election. What is not said is where the money is coming from: Corporate interests whose narrow concerns do not allow for peace, for health care for all, for workers' rights. I can and will continue to speak out with your support.
The working men and women of my district are working hard to protect this seat, which belongs to them. They are going door to door throughout the neighborhoods of the Cleveland area. Just yesterday, hundreds of dedicated citizens from all walks of life fanned out all across the District to spread the word about the importance of holding on to this Congressional seat so their voices will continue to be heard and represented in Washington.
With a million dollars being spent against us on negative ads, false claims, and misrepresentations, we need additional funds to make sure that our message gets on television, radio, and through the mails.
Please contribute as generously as you can at http://www.kucinich.us/contribute.html to ensure that the people continue to be represented in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Let our Prayer for America on this day in 2008 be one of determination that we will save our government -- and this Congressional seat -- from corporate control.
Dennis
A Prayer for America
by US Rep Dennis Kucinich
The following speech was given on February 17, 2002
I offer these brief remarks today as a prayer for our country, with love of democracy, as a celebration of our country. With love for our country. With hope for our country. With a belief that the light of freedom cannot be extinguished as long as it is inside of us. With a belief that freedom rings resoundingly in a democracy each time we speak freely. With the understanding that freedom stirs the human heart and fear stills it. With the belief that a free people cannot walk in fear and faith at the same time.
With the understanding that there is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. That implicit in the union of our country is the union of all people. That all people are essentially one. That the world is interconnected not only on the material level of economics, trade, communication, and transportation, but innerconnected through human consciousness, through the human heart, through the heart of the world, through the simply expressed impulse and yearning to be and to breathe free.
I offer this prayer for America.
Let us pray that our nation will remember that the unfolding of the promise of democracy in our nation paralleled the striving for civil rights. That is why we must challenge the rationale of the Patriot Act. We must ask why should America put aside guarantees of constitutional justice?
How can we justify in effect canceling the First Amendment and the right of free speech, the right to peaceably assemble?
How can we justify in effect canceling the Fourth Amendment, probable cause, the prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizure?
How can we justify in effect canceling the Fifth Amendment, nullifying due process, and allowing for indefinite incarceration without a trial?
How can we justify in effect canceling the Sixth Amendment, the right to prompt and public trial?
How can we justify in effect canceling the Eighth Amendment which protects against cruel and unusual punishment?
We cannot justify widespread wiretaps and internet surveillance without judicial supervision, let alone with it.
We cannot justify secret searches without a warrant.
We cannot justify giving the Attorney General the ability to designate domestic terror groups.
We cannot justify giving the FBI total access to any type of data which may exist in any system anywhere such as medical records and financial records.
We cannot justify giving the CIA the ability to target people in this country for intelligence surveillance.
We cannot justify a government which takes from the people our right to privacy and then assumes for its own operations a right to total secrecy.
The Attorney General recently covered up a statue of Lady Justice showing her bosom as if to underscore there is no danger of justice exposing herself at this time, before this administration.
Let us pray that our nation's leaders will not be overcome with fear. Because today there is great fear in our great Capitol. And this must be understood before we can ask about the shortcomings of Congress in the current environment.
The great fear began when we had to evacuate the Capitol on September 11.
It continued when we had to leave the Capitol again when a bomb scare occurred as members were pressing the CIA during a secret briefing.
It continued when we abandoned Washington when anthrax, possibly from a government lab, arrived in the mail.
It continued when the Attorney General declared a nationwide terror alert and then the Administration brought the destructive Patriot Bill to the floor of the House.
It continued in the release of the bin Laden tapes at the same time the President was announcing the withdrawal from the ABM treaty.
It remains present in the cordoning off of the Capitol.
It is present in the camouflaged armed national guardsmen who greet members of Congress each day we enter the Capitol campus.
It is present in the labyrinth of concrete barriers through which we must pass each time we go to vote.
The trappings of a state of siege trap us in a state of fear, ill-equipped to deal with the Patriot Games, the Mind Games, the War Games of an unelected President and his unelected Vice President.
Let us pray that our country will stop this war. "To promote the common defense" is one of the formational principles of America.
Our Congress gave the President the ability to respond to the tragedy of September 11. We licensed a response to those who helped bring the terror of September 11th. But we the people and our elected representatives must reserve the right to measure the response, to proportion the response, to challenge the response, and to correct the response.
Because we did not authorize the invasion of Iraq.
We did not authorize the invasion of Iran.
We did not authorize the invasion of North Korea.
We did not authorize the bombing of civilians in Afghanistan.
We did not authorize permanent detainees in Guantanamo Bay.
We did not authorize the withdrawal from the Geneva Convention.
We did not authorize military tribunals suspending due process and habeas corpus.
We did not authorize assassination squads.
We did not authorize the resurrection of COINTELPRO.
We did not authorize the repeal of the Bill of Rights.
We did not authorize the revocation of the Constitution.
We did not authorize national identity cards.
We did not authorize the eye of Big Brother to peer from cameras throughout our cities.
We did not authorize an eye for an eye.
Nor did we ask that the blood of innocent people, who perished on September 11, be avenged with the blood of innocent villagers in Afghanistan.
We did not authorize the administration to wage war anytime, anywhere,anyhow it pleases.
We did not authorize war without end.
We did not authorize a permanent war economy.
Yet we are upon the threshold of a permanent war economy. The President has requested a $45.6 billion increase in military spending. All defense-related programs will cost close to $400 billion.
Consider that the Department of Defense has never passed an independent audit.
Consider that the Inspector General has notified Congress that the Pentagon cannot properly account for $1.2 trillion in transactions.
Consider that in recent years the Dept. of Defense could not match $22 billion worth of expenditures to the items it purchased, wrote off, as lost, billions of dollars worth of in-transit inventory and stored nearly $30 billion worth of spare parts it did not need.
Yet the defense budget grows with more money for weapons systems to fight a cold war which ended, weapon systems in search of new enemies to create new wars. This has nothing to do with fighting terror.
This has everything to do with fueling a military industrial machine with the treasure of our nation, risking the future of our nation, risking democracy itself with the militarization of thought which follows the militarization of the budget.
Let us pray for our children. Our children deserve a world without end. Not a war without end. Our children deserve a world free of the terror of hunger, free of the terror of poor health care, free of the terror of homelessness, free of the terror of ignorance, free of the terror of hopelessness, free of the terror of policies which are committed to a world view which is not appropriate for the survival of a free people, not appropriate for the survival of democratic values, not appropriate for the survival of our nation, and not appropriate for the survival of the world.
Let us pray that we have the courage and the will as a people and as a nation to shore ourselves up, to reclaim from the ruins of September 11th our democratic traditions.
Let us declare our love for democracy. Let us declare our intent for peace.
Let us work to make nonviolence an organizing principle in our own society.
Let us recommit ourselves to the slow and painstaking work of statecraft, which sees peace, not war as being inevitable.
Let us work for a world where someday war becomes archaic.
That is the vision which the proposal to create a Department of Peace envisions. Forty-three members of Congress are now cosponsoring the legislation.
Let us work for a world where nuclear disarmament is an imperative. That is why we must begin by insisting on the commitments of the ABM treaty. That is why we must be steadfast for nonproliferation.
Let us work for a world where America can lead the day in banning weapons of mass destruction not only from our land and sea and sky but from outer space itself. That is the vision of HR 3616: A universe free of fear. Where we can look up at God's creation in the stars and imagine infinite wisdom, infinite peace, infinite possibilities, not infinite war, because we are taught that the kingdom will come on earth as it is in heaven.
Let us pray that we have the courage to replace the images of death which haunt us, the layers of images of September 11th, faded into images of patriotism, spliced into images of military mobilization, jump-cut into images of our secular celebrations of the World Series, New Year's Eve, the Superbowl, the Olympics, the strobic flashes which touch our deepest fears, let us replace those images with the work of human relations, reaching out to people, helping our own citizens here at home, lifting the plight of the poor everywhere.
That is the America which has the ability to rally the support of the world.
That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom. America, America. God shed grace on thee. Crown thy good, America.
Not with weapons of mass destruction. Not with invocations of an axis of evil. Not through breaking international treaties. Not through establishing America as king of a unipolar world. Crown thy good America. America, America. Let us pray for our country. Let us love our country. Let us defend our country not only from the threats without but from the threats within.
Crown thy good, America. Crown thy good with brotherhood, and sisterhood. And crown thy good with compassion and restraint and forbearance and a commitment to peace, to democracy, to economic justice here at home and throughout the world.
Crown thy good, America. Crown thy good America. Crown thy good.
Thank you.
-Dennis Kucinich
Sorry for the long post, but most people don't get his email. Bury if you wish, but I had to post it, this man is a true patriot. - unlawflcombatnt, on 02/19/2008, -3/+86Here's the injunction itself:
"
BANK JULIUS BAER & CO. LTD, a
Swiss entity; and JULIUS BAER BANK
AND TRUST CO. LTD, a Cayman Island ORDER GRANTING
entity, PERMANENT INJUNCTION
WIKILEAKS, an entity of unknown form;
WIKILEAKS.ORG, an entity of unknown
form; DYNADOT, LLC, a California
limited liability company; and DOES 1
through 10, inclusive,
[..]
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:
[..]
Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting
records for the wikileaks.org domain name and prevent the
domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or
any other website or server other than a blank park page,
until further order of this Court."
It's certainly nice to see the government protecting "privacy" so fervently.
It's too bad their privacy protection only extends to the rich, and those that contribute heavily to election campaigns.
http://www.unlawflcombatnt.proboards84.com/ - freakon, on 02/19/2008, -16/+93We must rise up and stage a physical rebellion against the government.
- lucutus, on 02/19/2008, -2/+74I wonder if anon will hear of this and replace the California judicial website with a mirror of Wikkileaks.
- UtahApocalyse, on 02/19/2008, -4/+76Lets get that site mirrored EVERYWHERE!!
- popnwave, on 02/19/2008, -3/+69This kind of thing is really what makes me sad to be an American.. A judge should be protecting things like this, not shutting it down!
- TheSwashbuckler, on 02/19/2008, -0/+62The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
--- John Gilmore - rald84, on 02/19/2008, -1/+62the description is misleading. "a California judge" refers to the fact that its a us district court for northern california, NOT a california state court.
the president who appointed this federal judge is ... drum roll ... bush 43
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/2002/white.html - lucutus, on 02/19/2008, -4/+58Someone needs to archive this site, zip it up, and make a torrent out of it. No Censorship!!! If I wasn't stuck @ work I'd archive and repost it now....
- doublsh0t, on 02/19/2008, -2/+55You shut one down, 20 more fill its place. We do not forgive. We do not forget.
- techmaster, on 02/19/2008, -1/+51I think this should spark a new revolution of DNS registrations. Remember the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray decryption codes that they tried so hard to censor? Do the same thing with this! Everybody should go out, buy some $8.95 domain on godaddy, and forward it to that IP address. "So what if Wikileaks doesn't work...I can still get to it via leakywiki.com, non-watertight-wiki.com, and wikithatleaks.com!" Do NOT let them revoke our first amendment!
- ryan83189, on 02/19/2008, -1/+49then where is my peach?
- Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 02/19/2008, -1/+46"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-Thomas Jefferson.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96oct/obrien/blo ... - EllieElliott, on 02/19/2008, -2/+46I think I don't like it.
- inactive, on 02/19/2008, -0/+44Maybe it's just the -pursuit- of free peaches.
- MikeSD34, on 02/19/2008, -0/+44I'm sorry, your liberties and freedoms are in another castle.
- ryan83189, on 02/19/2008, -1/+43Tear this internet apart! I want those plans and i want them now!
- 2trkpony, on 02/19/2008, -4/+44'Internet II' is coming..
- rnwen2750, on 02/19/2008, -1/+40They said we had free peaches, so where the hell are they?
- ubergeek09, on 02/19/2008, -0/+35Sweet I'm using the scrapbook firefox addon to save the entire site to my hard drive >:)
- Railz, on 02/19/2008, -1/+35This was on BBC news as well. Digging it again.
- HiKevinRose, on 02/19/2008, -4/+38Fascist America. Goodbye Lady Liberty, Hello Senator Censorship.
- alricsca, on 02/19/2008, -3/+36I cannot imagine what the judge in this case was thinking. It is like turning Digg off because one user posted something unacceptable in the Muslim country. How many ways could this judge have done this that would have been less damaging to the Constitutionally protected freedoms? For the matter no matter how bad the apparent damage, it could be argued the judge's action were more so. Then there is the issue if the domain lock, how it that any one country can lock a domain from being changed. Imagine if China decided to lock down any DNS it did not like. Does this somehow represent the complete ignorance of the US legal system to these realities or has the US finally become a irrational dictatorship?
- newspaperbrat, on 02/19/2008, -7/+39Ye Gods - did Arnold appoint this judge or perhaps a hangover from the dreaded Pete Wilson
- CogitatorX, on 02/19/2008, -1/+33Privacy for corporations and the government but none for you. Democracy at its best!
- Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 02/19/2008, -1/+32P.S. I know the speech already hit the front page of digg, but I feel it's message applies to this story.
- inactive, on 02/19/2008, -2/+33total corruption!
- neuralzen, on 02/19/2008, -2/+33Hasn't the court figured out that every time you mandate a website be taken down, it just makes people put up mirrors, or variants of the same idea? Look what happened to tv-links for a recent example. Its just like striking down a Jedi Master, it only makes them more powerful, because then its isn't just about the site, its about the idea.
- aargh01, on 02/19/2008, -1/+31The peach is a lie...
- tomarocco, on 02/19/2008, -0/+29Who needs DNS?
- Rhino2, on 02/19/2008, -1/+30That is so 2001
- digitalhair, on 02/19/2008, -3/+31This is an abomination that undermines the principle of Freedom itself.
- willster580, on 02/19/2008, -3/+30Whoever it was that did this, he/she is a douchebag. Perhaps he isn't aware he lives in the U.S., whose constitution says everyone is entitled to free speech.
- Hobbes24, on 02/19/2008, -12/+38...yea, that's a realistic and appropriate responce...
- MisterGnome, on 06/13/2009, -7/+32Well, they got themselves a new entry: Corrupt Judge issues censorship ruling under pressure of Bush Administration.
- bxblox, on 02/19/2008, -2/+25This judge must have been pretty ignorant. Theres only about a million other ways to get to the site as simple as changing a letter in the url.
- defaultusername, on 02/19/2008, -1/+24If there's something that they'll never learn it's that the quickest way to get something posted all over the internet is to try and censor it.
- signal15, on 02/19/2008, -1/+21Sounds like a job for Sealand.
- HalFTW, on 02/19/2008, -0/+20Various mirrors already exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#External_li ...
- DigitAl56K, on 02/19/2008, -2/+22Time to create a deregulated, decentralized DNS system, and run it ourselves, folks.
Sure, it would be open to some abuse, but:
* It would be a fallback only
* It wouldn't be subject to the government shutting it off
* Maybe we could introduce some kind of trust system to prevent abuse (e.g. modified SSL) -
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