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Help arrest Tony Blair

Feb 2, ’10 1:17 PM

Great piece by George Mon­biot on the cam­paign to arrest Tony Blair:

Already the cam­paign has borne fruit. Out­side the Chil­cot inquiry a woman called Grace McCann, inspired by the web­site, tried to appre­hend Mr Blair, before she was restrained and removed by the police. She qual­i­fies for the first bounty: one quarter of the total pot at the time of her attempt. She has pledged to give the money to rel­ev­ant char­it­ies. The fund will remain open until Blair is offi­cially pro­sec­uted, and we will keep pay­ing out to those who fol­low Grace’s example.

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Paypal threatens democracy

Jan 29, ’10 8:03 AM

No Right Turn on the risk to demo­cracy that Paypal presents:

Paypal has blocked dona­tions to the Arrest Blair cam­paign, sup­posedly on the basis that it “encour­ages illegal activ­ity” (con­duct­ing a law­ful cit­izens arrest of a rich and power­ful fig­ure appar­ently being illegal in the eyes of PayPal). It’s a blatantly polit­ical move — and its not the first time they’ve done it. Last week, they froze the assets of Wikileaks — a site which encour­ages and pub­lishes anonym­ous leaks in the pub­lic interest, and is cred­ited with “produc[ing] more scoops in its short life than the Wash­ing­ton Post has in the past 30 years”.

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