Just when you are tempted to lose faith in the free enterprise system, there’s a development like that affecting a cyber-terrorism website and you realize that there is still such a thing as economic justice.
The news hit over the weekend, according to the Associated Press: “WikiLeaks has lost a major source of revenue after the online payment service provider PayPal cut off its account used to collect donations, saying the website is engaged in illegal activity.
“The announcement also came as WikiLeaks is struggling to keep its website accessible after service providers such as Amazon dropped contracts, and governments and hackers continued to hound the organization.
“The weekend move by PayPal came as WikiLeaks’ release of hundreds of thousands of United States diplomatic cables brought commercial organizations on the Internet that have business ties with the organization under more scrutiny.”
Way to go PayPal.
While we’d love to convince ourselves that they are operating out of intense patriotism and advanced moral ethics, the reality is probably closer to the recognition that Julian Assange is damaged goods.
However, Assange is just the terrorist of the hour. He will be followed by lots more. Why? Because the current national administration isn’t willing to do what is necessary to close the leaks.
There are far too many people who are getting a great income out of our tax dollars who are also making a bundle by selling out their employers.
That would be all of us who pay taxes.
They need to be made an example.
They need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent and let them attempt to make a living in this culture as convicted felons.
If you agree to work for the taxpayers of the United States and then turn around and stab us in the back, you need to know that you are going to pay a price that is many times what you hope to gain from your treachery.
Allowing these criminals to coast is just encouraging this sort of behavior and it is a slap in the face of the millions of Americans who follow the law, bay the bills and live on significantly less than do those who are selling us down the river.
Prosecute them to the fullest, or get out of the way and let us have a government that will.
— Chuck Smith