[Peace-discuss] Ellsberg calls for Amazon boycott

[C. G. Estabrook]

Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon

Posted By_Daniel Ellsberg_On December 2, 2010 @ 10:23 pm In_News_|_80 Comments 
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*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 likeantiwar.com 
<http://antiwar.com/>^[1] that have now appropriately ended their 
book-purchasing association with Amazon.

Yours (no longer),
Daniel Ellsberg

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