Glenn Greenwald on Occupy Wall Street, Banks Too Big To Jail and the Attack on WikiLeaks

www.democracynow.org - The prominent political and legal blogger Glenn Greenwald comments on the growing Occupy Wall Street movement on Democracy Now! Oct. 26. "This movement is about is more important than specific legislative demands ... it is expressing dissent to the system itself," says Greenwald. "It is not a Democratic Party organ, it is not about demanding President Obama's single [jobs] bill pass or anything along those lines. It is saying that we believe the system itself is radically corrupted and we no longer are willing to tolerate it and that's infinitely more important than specific legislative or political demands." Greenwald also discusses the possible shutdown of the online whistleblower website WikiLeaks due to a long-standing "financial blockade" led by MasterCard, Visa and PayPal. "The reason why all these companies cut off funds is because the government pressured and demanded that they do so," Greenwald says. "So no due process, no accusation of criminal activity. You could never charge WikiLeaks with a crime — they're engaged in First Amendment activity — and the government has destroyed them through their pressure and influence over the private sector. WikiLeaks has shed more light on the world's most powerful factions than all media outlets combined easily over the last year and that's the reason why they're so hated."

Watch Part 1 of 2: http://youtu.be/YTaPV0p0Ykg

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[HuxleyWasRight]

Glenn Greenwald is one of the best at pointing out the rank hypocrisy of the USG, his blog is up there with the very best, i don't agree with him on everything, he's a liberal of some stripe, but he's still one of my favourite commentators.

[SpaceCadet929]

im from tx. it is very racist here.the majority of the blacks have felonies for petty crimes.they get them as soon as they turn 17.with a felony you cannot work..imagine what the average 30-40yr black man endures in tx.they are killing off off . it's like slow genocide, the people who make the laws are friends and relatives of the ones who own the prisons.its a vicious cycle.

[asynkronos]

@pjamesbda Everyone I know in DC is behind Manning, Assange and WikiLeaks. It infuriates me to see Cheney and other criminals roaming free like Tricky Dick #1 while Assange and Manning are prisoners, burdened with huge legal expenses and facing worse punishment for exposing their heinous crimes. It's a travesty of our revolutionary ancestors' justice. It's a U.S. Mafia/Cointelpro-style media hit job like the one they did on MLK before they murdered him. I'm heading back today to OCCUPY!

[PerryLogan]

This proves Bill Clinton is not a member of the elite. As you may recall, Clinton wasn't immune to anything.

[topher01]

Excellent job Glenn Greenwald, except that the word is KAsum, not chasum.

[BeortheMad]

@MrCeleron44 I'm not defending Bloomberg, I'm just pointing out that you should take a deep breath and chill, didn't your mother teach you anything?

[constructivist6]

The richer the poor get the richer we all get. That's real Econ!

[MrCeleron44]

@BeortheMad HOW ABOUT YOUR A RETARD, MAYBE U SHOULD WIPE BLOOMBERGS MAN JUICE OFF YOUR CHIN AND GET OUT FROM UNDER HIS DESK. CUM GUZZLER...

[MzProgressive]

Yes! I wholeheartedly agree that Richard Nixon's pardon was a travesty against justice. I had no idea that Dick Cheney rode that pardon for all it was worth as well. I wonder if he would ever have been nominated for the VP position if Americans knew exactly what Cheney had done in the 70s. Hard to say, with our complicit press and our lazy electorate.

[RegioLunar]

Such a grave combination: state department supporting "war contractors" aka criminals acting with impunity