Julian Assange is proving to be merely one tentacle of a new kind of monster. And this monster means business. Serious business. Mastercard - and now Visa - is finding out the hard way that if you play hard and dirty, you're going to get hard and dirty right back atchya. WikiLeaks is a hard-nosed organization, run by a brilliant if somewhat eccentric man. He has laid down the groundwork to hit back at those who attempt to harm him or WikiLeaks.
Unlike many pests of the past, Assange and WikiLeaks are prepared to counteract not just governmental bullying but the far more prevalent and deadly corporate kind. WikiLeaks has organized itself into an impenetrable fortress. Bite off an arm, another grows in its place. Arrest one member and you risk payback.
As the US is discovering, with every covert attempt to squash free speech - at least in WikiLeaks' case - payback is a monster. The further you dig, the harsher the sting. And that stinger has a seemingly endless source of embarrassment, indictment and scorn.
I kind of like this new manner of disobedience. We all may suffer in one way or another. Personally, I can stand to see politicians and diplomats being embarrassed and I can certainly wait a few extra days for my Mastercard payment to go through. This is worth it.
No state secrets have been revealed other than gossipy cables and soldiers cheering on a kill. That's what's got the authoritarian mob so outraged. Assange is embarrassing them. These mewling, snarling politicians and dotty diplomats are being humiliated by an evasive Aussie and that's worse than any state secret being revealed. Assange has hit them personally. It's all about them and those who fear future disclosures. Their countries be damned.
And that, my friends, is war.
UPDATE: Looks like Sarah Palin has been hacked for her wish that Assange be hunted down 'like Osama bin Laden'. Shit Assange, you can fight China and Visa all you want and stayed unsinged but with Palin, you better wear some extra heavy armour.
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