[LINK] pentagon papers whistleblower calls for amazon boycott

[Craig Sanders]

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/02/daniel-ellsberg-says-boycott-amazon/

Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service:

December 2, 2010

I'm disgusted by Amazon's cowardice and servility in abruptly
terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the
face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional
right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that
encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China's
control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing.

For the last several years, I've been spending over $100 a month on
new and used books from Amazon. That's over. I ask Amazon to terminate
immediately my membership in Amazon Prime and my Amazon credit card and
account, to delete my contact and credit information from their files
and to send me no more notices.

I understand that many other regular customers feel as I do and are
responding the same way. Good: the broader and more immediate the
boycott, the better. I hope that these others encourage their contact
lists to do likewise and to let Amazon know exactly why they're shifting
their business. I've asked friends today to suggest alternatives, and
I'll be exploring service from Powell's Books, Half-Price Books, Biblio
and others.

So far Amazon has spared itself the further embarrassment of trying
to explain its action openly. This would be a good time for Amazon
insiders who know and perhaps can document the political pressures that
were brought to bear - and the details of the hasty kowtowing by their
bosses - to leak that information. They can send it to Wikileaks (now
on servers outside the US), to mainstream journalists or bloggers, or
perhaps to sites like antiwar.com that have now appropriately ended
their book-purchasing association with Amazon.

Yours (no longer),
Daniel Ellsberg


craig

ps: i've been boycotting Amazon over the one-click patent[1] issue since
1999 when they sued B&N so this, for me, is just another reason to
continue that boycott.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click

-- 
craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>