Comments on: wikileaks.org shut down by Federal Judge

US District Judge Jeffrey White signed a permanent injunction last week ordering wikileaks.org shut down. The whistle-blower site, compared their own situation to that surrounding the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and stated that the judges actions are "the eq

[jeanswear25]

Wonder how long u are going to hold the 1st Amendment like The Bible, while it was designed at the specific time under the specific circumstance. Too often the No-brainer emphasieze too much about it and totally forgot other groups needed to be protected. I don't like govenment, the fact was the Utopia was protected by govenment, any government, There is always limitation, for all Amendments, so to speak. Otherwise, to bear Arm,................ and so on!

[lizwolfspada]

Jeanswear, the first amendment is in important part of what guarantees democracy in our constitution. It lead to a free press, important for a nation expected to make political choices, it protected the rights of people to criticize the government, something very absent in totalitarian governments, it protects our rights to peaceful assembly. I don't believe that one can put "too" emphasize on the First Amendment and I think the fact that it is first said something about how important it was to our Founding Fathers.

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I'd really like to know how much the bank paid the judge? or the alternative, a mentally incompetent moron dressing up in wigs and banging his play desk.