Mastercard, Other Banksters, Deserve to get Hacked

If banksters like Mastercard want to take on the role as censor for the corporate state, they should expect to get hacked...over and over. They have no right to stop the free flow of money across borders between lawful groups.

For those not following the news, Mastercard was hacked today, once again because the company unethically blocks payments made to WikiLeaks, the organization dedicated to shining sunlight in places where governments would rather they didn't. Guess what? WikiLeaks is on your side. The government? Not so much.

Who decided that banks would have the power to cut off a legitimate political group from receiving financial support from like-minded individuals? I don't recall an exception to the First Amendment, where we allow corporations to do the dirty work of censorship that the government is barred from doing.

This is not about WikiLeaks specifically. This is about your rights as a human being to support political causes. This is about free speech. This is about the First Amendment and the right to associate with whomever we damn well please.

WikiLeaks, however makes an excellent case for free speech. For six months now, five major financial groups have been strangling WikiLeaks by cutting off the group's ability to raise funding. They have done so despite WikiLeaks breaking no laws and without being accused of breaking any laws.

"The attack is entirely outside of any due process or rule of law. In fact, in the only formal review to occur, the US Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy C. Geithner found, on January 12, that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a financial blockade," says the WikiLeaks website.

They continue. "We call on regulators around the world to investigate and de-license these banking institutions. They are not politically neutral and are not obeying the rule of law. When VISA and MasterCard will happily provide services to the Klu Klux Klan, but not to WikiLeaks, it is time to act."

Well, governments around the world have heard our pleas and do nothing. The five banking giants — VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union and the Bank of America — have been skirting the constitutional and human rights of every citizen of the world. They have used their collective monopoly to stop the exercise of free speech and free association. For that, they have been (and will continue to be) hacked by activists everywhere.

I support this and I urge you to support it too.

For refusing to defend free speech and free association, both U.S. political parties have proven themselves useless. Utterly and totally useless. Take the money you would have otherwise donated to Obama's re-election or Ron Paul's election, and give it to WikiLeaks. At least try to stand up for your rights, before every last one of us is a wholly owned subsidiary of a corporate-fascist regime.

The hacking of financial websites should continue until this corporate end-run around free speech and civil liberties is ended. If the government will not protect us from the corporate world, we will continue to take matters into our own hands. Expect us. #antisec