Wiki-steal this book

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Columnist Patrick McIlheran, generally a right-wing guy, offers commentary and links to good reading on the Web

Dec. 29, 2010
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By Patrick McIlheran of the Journal Sentinel

Dec. 29, 2010 0

When publishers give Julian Assange vast sums to write his autobiography, Max Boot writes at Commentary, they are doing what Visa and PayPal had the decency not to do: They’re subsidizing his anti-American irresponsibility.

Boot speculates about the next move against the Wikileaks leaker who’s now cashing in:

“At the very least prosecutors should plan to freeze and seize any payments to him. I wonder if there might not be a civil suit possible by one of Assange’s victims – someone who has been hurt by the publication of these confidential communications – who might be able to go after the publishers for a substantial award?”

How about this? Once the book is written, what would it take for someone to get hold of it and publish it all, for free, perhaps in Kindle-downloadable form, on the Internet?

About Patrick McIlheran
A professional journalist since 1986, I worked as a reporter, copy editor and news designer at newspapers around Wisconsin and Minnesota before coming to the Journal Sentinel in 1997. I've written an opinion column since 2004. I grew up in western Racine County, am married and have three children. I now live in Milwaukee.
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