Julien Assange defense fund frozen - from Twitter:

[ProfessionalLeftist]

"PRESS RELEASE
Tue 7 Dec 15.55 GMT

Julian Assange Defense Fund frozen.

The Swiss Bank Post Finance today issues a press release stating that it had frozen Julian Assange's defense fund and personal assets (31K EUR) after reviewing him as a "high profile" individual.

The technicality used to seize the defense fund was that Mr. Assange, as a homeless refugee attempting to gain residency in Switzerland, had used his lawyers address in Geneva for the bank's correspondence.

Late last week, the internet payment giant PayPal, froze 60Keur of donations to the German charity the Wau Holland Foundation, which were targeted to promote the sharing of knowledge via WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks and Julian have lost 100Keur in assets this week.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the Cablegate exposure is how it is throwing into relief the power dynamics between supposedly independent states like Switzerland, Sweden and Australia.

WikiLeaks also has public bank accounts in Iceland (preferred) and Germany.

Please help cover our expenditures while we fight to get our assets back.

http://wikileaks.ch/support.html"

[Le Taz Hot]

1. Right. LIke the Big Boys haven't been

doing this for years. NOW the Swiss Bank gets morality???

"The technicality used to seize the defense fund was that Mr. Assange, as a homeless refugee attempting to gain residency in Switzerland, had used his lawyers address in Geneva for the bank's correspondence."

[ProfessionalLeftist]

2. Dontcha love their hypocrisy? Pfft. n/t

[Azathoth]

3. You know you're persona non grata when Swiss banks don't want your money n/t

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. UK has also issued warrant for Assange's arrest

"Same day Swiss defense fund is frozen, UK issues arrest warrant for Julian Assange"

[Renew Deal]

5. Pay up suckers.

You get the double bonus of having your money frozen by some government and the FBI watching you.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. Another funny Wikileaks Palin Tweet:

RT @sarahpalinusa "I can see Julian Assange from my house" #wikileaks

[drm604]

7. How does that technicality work?

The technicality used to seize the defense fund was that Mr. Assange, as a homeless refugee attempting to gain residency in Switzerland, had used his lawyers address in Geneva for the bank's correspondence.

They can seize his assets because he used his lawyers address? Or was it because he used a Geneva address while trying to gain residency? Why would either of those result in the account being seized? I'm confused by this. Anyone understand the laws around this?

[kenny blankenship]

8. They only take money from international drug smugglers, arms dealers and fugitive Nazis

He should have known he didn't belong - what a bounder!

[qb]

9. The use of underhanded schemes to disable Assange's defense does not say much for the govts' case.