Call To Impeach Judge Who Shut Down Wikileaks.Org

Posted on February 20, 2008
Filed Under Journalism, commentary |

His name is Jeffrey S. White and he is a judge  of the Federal District Court in San Francisco.

This is a call for his impeachment, the only legal way to have a federal judge removed from the bench and sent packing to a retirement home somewhere.

On Friday, soon to be impeached Judge White, granted a permanent injunction shutting down a Web site that discloses confidential information from corporate and government leakers.

The site is Wikileaks.org and, according to the New York Times, it invites people to post leaked materials with the goal of discouraging ‘unethical behavior’ by corporations and governments.”

A Cayman Islands bank sued Dynadot, the site’s domain name registrar, because it claimed a former employee provided stolen documents to Wikileaks “in violation of a confidentiality agreement.”

Wikileaks, says the Times, claims the documents reveal secret trust structures “used for asset hiding, money laundering and tax evasion.”

Wikileaks has also published on its site the documents that reveal the rules of engagement for U.S. troops in Iraq as well as a manual for how the detention center at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba should be operated.

Wikileaks says the injunction is similiar to when the federal government tried to stop the New York Times and Washington Post from publishing the secret Pentagon Papers in 1971..papers that revealed the secret history of this country’s involvement in Vietnam.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned that in a historic ruling on prior restraint.

Now, the Internet being the Internet, you can still access all this info by going to the following sites, says the Times:

http://88.80.13.160 (the sites unique IP address) or

http://wikileaks.be/ (Belgium)

http://wikileaks.de (Germany)

and, http://wikileaks.ex (the Christmas Islands)

The idiot judge’s order does not extend outside of the U.S.

The Times says this legal decision “could present a major test of First Amendment rights in the Internet era.”

That is why Judge White ought to be impeached and removed from the federal courthouse as fast as possible–his sort of thinking represents a true threat to American democracy. He is a disgrace to the federal courts.

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One Response to “Call To Impeach Judge Who Shut Down Wikileaks.Org”

  1. Joshua Dorkin on March 1st, 2008 11:33 am

    Apparently the judge reversed his decision on this case. Maybe you had something to do with it, Charles . . .

    Check it out:
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080301/ap_on_hi_te/wikileaks_shutdown

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