Diary of a Walking Butterfly
The British, French, German, Dutch, and U.S. Governments Crack Down on WikiLeaks’ Cyber-Defenders
Monday, 31 January 2011
IN A SERIES OF COORDINATED ATTACKS the British, French, and United States Governments handed down dozens of search warrants and engaged in raids at the homes of activists who allegedly engaged in Denial of Service (DoS) efforts aimed at defending WikiLeaks from multi-billion dollar corporations such as Amazon.com, MasterCard, PayPal, and Visa who are censoring it.
In Britain five citizens aged 15 to 26 were arrested. If convicted they face up to 10 years in prison and a £5,000 (~$7,950) fine. In a 27 January 2011 press release the group Anonymous called the arrests a “declaration of war” by the British government on the organisation and the people.
(Thanks Harry!) It should be noted that the size of al Qaeda is likely grossly exaggerated. They certainly don’t have 10,000 members. All the numbers I’ve seen have been under 1,000, most in the low hundreds. So that al Qaeda dot likely isn’t just 10x too big, but magnified 100x or more.
Concept credit Mark Schmidt. Updated graph Technipol. Data The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life 2009 Report.
“Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.” – James Connolly
“Our vengeance will be the laughter of our children.” – Bobby Sands
“My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall… that is my strength, my only strength.”
“Now I hears talkin about de Constitution and de rights of man. I comes up and I takes hold of dis Constitution. It looks mighty big, and I feels for my rights, but der aint any dare. Den I says, God, what ails dis Constitution? He says to me, ‘Sojourner, dere is a little weasel in it.’” – Sojourner Truth (~1797 – 1883), Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
“I am as gay as a daffodil, my dear”. – Freddie Mercury
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