In the ten days since Wikileaks released a mere handful of the hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic memos in their possession we have witnessed the very worst of America. Elected representatives and high ranking officials and mind numbingly inane political pundits have called for executions, assassinations, retroactive implementation of laws to make telling the truth treasonous as well as state sponsored censorship that is the antithesis of what the country was built upon.

Flexing its collective muscle, mighty corporations have bent to political pressure by the very government that is supposed to protect our civil liberties, all in the name of ‘protecting us’. Protecting us from words…

“…while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth.” [V for Vendetta]

We bear witness now to the mighty power of words as a scraggly band of activists raised the blood pressure and ire of government leaders around the world and most especially the once world superpower, the United States of America. We bear witness as the last straggling bits of US dignity deteriorate into frustrated threats of prosecution and unending persecution, driven by banksters pulling the strings.

Today, the vox populi acted to defend the seemingly vanquished Wikileaks and launched a cyber attack against the ‘venal and virulent vermin’, PayPal and Postfinance. The first taste of blood in a burgeoning information transparency revolution took the form of a DDoS attack by grassroots open government ‘hactivists’ around the world.

“… if you’ve seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you” ignore whats been started. “But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand…” up to the suppression and the opacity and the persecution and together we will give them a global cyber revolution that shall never, ever be forgot.

Don’t let this moment pass, grab a baton and run with it.