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margin-bottom: 5px;">Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon</p>
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<p><strong>Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service:</strong></p>
<p>December 2, 2010</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://antiwar.com/" rel="external">antiwar.com</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><sup>[1]</sup><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that have now
appropriately ended their book-purchasing association with
Amazon.</p>
<p>Yours (no longer),<br>
Daniel Ellsberg</p>
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