Memoirs of a Highly Visible Man: Assange signs $1.3 million book deal

to cover legal costs.

http://gizmodo.com/5718775/memoirs-of-a-highly-visible-man-julian-assange-signs-13m-book-deal-to-cover-legal-costs

Julian Assange is claiming he "has to" write his memoirs, to help cover legal fees and the astronomical running costs of WikiLeaks. If ever a book deserved to be leaked in draft PDF form online prior to publication, it's this.

According to the Guardian, Assange told the Sunday Times "I don't want to write this book, but I have to ... I have already spent £200,000 for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat". Assange also reveals that the current WikiLeaks legal bill stands at around $770,000—a figure that was being covered by over $135,000 a day in donations, before the banks put a stop to that.

The $1.3m total comes from an estimated $800,000 advance from US publisher Alfred A Knopf, with an additional $500k coming from the UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/26/julian-assange-book-deals

They've been seeking to cut off wikileaks financially, now Knopf has thrown them a 1st amendment protected 1.3M lifeline. What's a neo-totalitarian corporate state to do?

that the US is not totalitarian.

subversives in Nazi Germany, for example. It was still a totalitarian state.

Perhaps you might want to look up the meaning of that term?

very early in the regime. And that is an indisputable fact. It's quite ridiculous to compare the freedom of expression under the Nazi regime to the U.S. today.

One nation that has roughly 5% of the world's population also has fully 25% of the prisoners of the world incarcerated within its borders..

Here's a hint, in a fit of mind boggling irony this nation very often calls itself "the land of the free"..

to avoid the inevitable 'it ain't hitler' knee-jerk response. What is happening to wikileaks is a case in point of this new form of authoritarian state. No it is not your grandpa's strutting 1930's fascist or stalinist system, and it is still forming itself, so what exactly the new form is, is sort of hard to say. What I know for sure is that we no longer live in a republic of free men and women.