"FITNA" BACK ON LiveLeak.com!

It looks like freedom of speech has won again! Below is the statement made on LiveLeak.com.


Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders’ film about the Quran (English) - Post Media Reply
Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van ’Fitna the Movie’

** 30/3/2008: Liveleak Update **

On the 28th of March LiveLeak.com was left with no other choice but to remove the film "fitna" from our servers following serious threats to our staff and their families. Since that time we have worked constantly on upgrading all security measures thus offering better protection for our staff and families. With these measures in place we have decided to once more make this video live on our site. We will not be pressured into censoring material which is legal and within our rules. We apologise for the removal and the delay in getting it back, but when you run a website you don’t consider that some people would be insecure enough to threaten our lives simply because they do not like the content of a video we neither produced nor endorsed but merely hosted.

Yes, and I can understand why you had to protect you families, and staff. The time you kept it off the air was enough of a victory for the enemy to last them a long time. Although you changed your stance, the die has been cast. Now the Radical Islamists will go after anyone thinking that their strategy works.
When LiveLeak stated that " In the end, the cost was too high". My first thought was; " WHAT COST? FREEDOM?