Rep. Peter King Wants Treasury Dept. To Put Wikileaks On Terrorist List

[Matariki]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110113/01220912647/rep-peter-king-wants-treasury-dept-to-put-wikileaks-terrorist-list.shtml

Apparently Rep. Peter King is in a competition with Senator Joe Lieberman to see who can overreact more to Wikileaks. It seems like a neck-and-neck competition, with Peter King's brand of craziness potentially taking the lead. King, of course, was the guy who insisted that Wikileaks should be declared a terrorist organization and claimed (with nothing whatsoever to back this up) that the cable leak was worse than a military attack. His latest move is to ask Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to add Wikileaks to the Treasury Department's "Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons List," which is usually used to designate terrorist and organized crime operations.

So while Lieberman merely used political pressure to get companies to block or censor Wikileaks, King wants it to become official government policy that no US companies or individuals should be doing anything with Wikileaks. Overreact much?

[Matariki]

1. Have I mentioned today how despicable Peter "well take care of counting the votes" King is?

He's despicable.

[EFerrari]

2. Isn't this what China does?

[Lint Head]

3. First we accept torture now we muzzle the press.

Just like all other dictatorial and fascist states throughout history.

[VWolf]

4. Great. Now wilikeaks.com can't get on airplanes n/t

[Matariki]

5. lol

but actually, people who work for Wikileaks are being detained and searched at airports already - in my hometown, no less :-{

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/12/wikileaks-volunteer-1.html

[Matariki]

6. Oh and btw, Peter King is now the fucking Chair of the Homeland Security Committee

blech.