INCREDIBLE – AT 8:55 A.M. ET:  Amazon, the book-and-everything-else giant, made the correct decision in removing WikiLeaks from its site.  Now the political left, claiming free speech, is outraged:

The internet giant took action after coming under pressure from right-wingers in the US to stop hosting the site, which this week published tens of thousands of confidential diplomatic e-mails.

I love the term "right-wingers."  Apparently only "right-wingers" are outraged by these damaging leaks.  I believe that both the White House and Hillary Clinton denounced them.  Right-wingers?

Joe Lieberman, chairman of the senate homeland security committee, called on other companies to end their links with the website.

He said: ‘WikiLeaks’ illegal, outrageous, and reckless acts have compromised our national security and put lives at risk around the world.’

Correct.

But Amazon now faces protests from free speech campaigners, who say it should be ‘punished with boycott’ at what is its busiest trading period of the year.

In other words, deny Amazon its free speech rights.  The hypocrisy flows.

I suspect a lot of these "free speech" advocates are actually just traditional lefties who would be first in line to deny free speech to anyone who disagrees with them.

December 2, 2010