Bank of America stops handling Wikileaks payments
"not process transactions of any type that we have reason to believe are intended for Wikileaks" citing "Wikileaks may be engaged in activities that are... inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments".
Personal opinion: US Constitution's first 3 words states "We the people". Over time, "money" has become more important than "We the people" in the US. Now the companies take the most protection from the law and return the least back to 'the people'. Law, you can think of as "We the people" having agreed to provide protection for the greater good.
Not surprising to note that Visa was born out of innovation from 1958 innovation of Bank of America. Visa and BoA have harmed wikileaks.
I wouldn't recommend people to take their business out of BoA. Instead, stay and request reversal. This way, people asking change can be under the 'customer' umbrella protection - that will be lost when they are not having that privilege/protection. Time will tell - if staying and protesting is better or leaving is better.
Basic question on the cables that is being published by wikileaks.
- What is the issue the businesses and US state department are complaining?
- Has it been established that this is infact a 'property of the US'?
- Are these 'property' collected/stored legally? By legally, was it collected/transmitted/stored legally complying with the local laws and treaties?
- Some of the leaks, as we note, are statements of the heads of states. How can US claim to have the wordings of another nations head of state to be US 'property'?
Why is any entity, US government, or any one trying to know every thing and also 'own' every thing of human kind? Just each person and collection of persons (sovereignty?) just care about their own and prosper - with minimal interaction all over? May be rich nations focus on their own business and internal matters - so that all the mess (was/financial collapse/environmental degradation) can be fixed and avoided.