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Daniel Ellsberg's Open Letter To Amazon:

To Customer Service and Jeff Bezos,

I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminatin­g 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 have contacted Customer Service to 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. I’ve removed all links to Amazon from my site, and I’ll be exploring service from Powell’s Books, IndieBound­, 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 a site like antiwar.co­m, which has now appropriat­ely ended its book-purch­asing associatio­n with Amazon and called a boycott.

If you’d like to read further analysis of your cowardice, I suggest you see this excellent article by Glenn Greenwald.

Yours (no longer),
Daniel Ellsberg

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost