People power !

The world watches with bated breath as " people power " does battle with the awesome legal machinery of the greatest country on this planet.

It all started when a person of little personal power worked a government computer somewhere in Afghanistan - and decided to secretly download information from that government's immense store of archives.

The information was passed to activist Julian Assange, who devises the Wikileaks concept - and published the secret material on the net - where any citizen with a computer had free access.

This brought into play the immense power of world governments - and their desire to put the cork back in the bottle and secure sensitive information from prying eyes.
A decidedly suspicious rape charge was levelled against Assange, investigated - and dropped. Immediately consular cables began to appear on Wikileak it was dragged into the public domain - and became the supposed reason for an arrest order. Assange is now in a British prison.

Government power would seem to be behind the pressure on three of the world's money movers to shut off the cash flow to Wikileaks - and to clip Assange's legal defence team of funds to defend the charges against him.

On the same day Mastercard, Visa and Pay-Pal announced that they were banning handling payments through their channels to Wikileaks. This despite no evidence of any illegality on the part of Wikileaks in making information available to the public.

This time - People Power struck back ! The power of big numbers of people using their computers to overwhelm these three money movers with inward contact caused their servers to crash. The ultimate weapon was in use - the ability to stop their cash flow - and reduce their profits.

Pay-Pal was the first to crumble, but the battle is far from mover. It seems to be a case of an unmovable object coming into collision with an unstoppable force.

The end result of that is usually a huge explosion !