Dear Folks,
Yesterday, I received the following message from the US Green Party. I hope
you will forward it to everyone you know, as I am doing.
Best,
Hajja Romi/Blue
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Scott McLarty
("Voting" for Wikileaks is not inconsistent with voting Green. -- Scott)
Vote WikiLeaks
By Julian Assange
WikiLeaks has decided to intervene in the U.S. election campaign.
Information Clearing House, October 06, 2012
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32664.htm (video on web page)
Wikileaks.org, October 3, 2012
http://wikileaks.org/Press-Statement-In-this-election.html (no video)
"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/commentisfree/2012/sep/05/obama-campaign-brags-about-whistleblower-persecutions
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/wikileaks_cables_and_the_iraq_war/
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/2011/may/13/amnesty-international-wikileaks-arab-spring
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/wikihistory-did-leaks-inspire-arab-spring
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_Shriners_raises_question_of_wrongdoing
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 Defense 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
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