Aaron Swartz and Jonathan Pollard. So much in common. Not 100% innocent Jews, but their fate was probably flavored with AntiSemitism.
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| (Hey Jillian C York... Why didn't you help me with my legal bills?) |
(The father of information activist Aaron Swartz blames US prosecutors for his son’s death)Before his days with Apple, recalled Mr. Swartz, Jobs and his business partner Steve Wozniak “used to criminally defraud the phone company” by selling small “blue box” devices that allowed anyone in the country to conduct long-distance calls for free. Gates’ development of Microsoft’s BASIC, Swartz said, was “sketchy” at best.
“These are people who are lionized,” he said, and “treated like idols in our culture.”
And so the conspiracies from Russia will be promoted like 911Truth. It is sad that no one offered to pay this guy's legal bills when he was alive... now everyone will profit off of his death. The same conspiracy theorists that took advantage of a man of logic when he was alive will continue to spin this to their advantage and blame this on a free nation. It is one thing for a grieving father to defend his child. It is another thing for a news outlet like RT to shamefully report this.
(Our Legal System Didn't Give Aaron Swartz a Chance) In his book Three Felonies a Day, veteran defense attorney Harvey Silverglate warns that "the trend of ambitious prosecutors exploiting vague federal laws and pursuing criminal charges instead of more appropriate civil actions" makes potential criminals of us all. Redundant indictments for multiple offenses flowing from a single act -- and threats of lengthy, life-destroying sentences -- enable prosecutors to extort pleas from innocent or not-terribly-guilty defendants. It is often "nearly impossible for normal, rational, self-interested, calculating people to risk going to trial," Silverglate observes. Moreover, the minority of people willing to take that risk may be deprived of the means to do so by pretrial orders freezing any assets allegedly generated by their alleged offenses.
Noah: People ask me why I took a guilty plea of misdemeanors when I set out to free information. Here is why. I'm alive. Adam Swartz is dead. I get to write this: Adam trusted in the system and his elitist Boston @EFF pals who did nothing. My mother asked me why I never contacted the ACLU. For a good reason I didn't. These people are parasites. This Adam guy believed in justice and the system. I guess I'm a cynic... but I didn't have to kill myself......... if this #hacker #AaronSwartz had gotten older
he might of realized that his progressive buds @EFF and MIT were hypocrites. He took the fall for other people's greed. If academia is funded by totalitarian governments and you are busy destroying the property in a free market then it doesn't matter how much insider code you have. All the scum on twitter's first year that were touting the open platform of twitter with RSS were the last people to bitch when the social networks turned into walled archetypes. The elite in these programs depend on the system that they rail against. Progressives are a lot like Muslims. They kill their own more than anyone else.
This weekend the internet mourned the loss of one of its folk heroes.
Aaron Swartz, a co-creator of RSS and an early employee of popular link-sharing site Reddit, was found dead in his New York apartment on Friday.
The post-Reddit era in Aaron's life was really his coming of age. His
stunts were breathtaking. At one point, he singlehandedly liberated 20
percent of US law. PACER, the system that gives Americans access to
their own (public domain) case-law, charged a fee for each such access.
After activists built RECAP (which allowed its users to put any caselaw
they paid for into a free/public repository), Aaron spent a small
fortune fetching a titanic amount of data and putting it into the public
domain. The feds hated this. They smeared him, the FBI investigated
him, and for a while, it looked like he'd be on the pointy end of some
bad legal stuff, but he escaped it all, and emerged triumphant.
He also founded a group called
DemandProgress,
which used his technological savvy, money and passion to leverage
victories in huge public policy fights. DemandProgress's work was one of
the decisive factors in last year's victory over SOPA/PIPA, and that
was only the start of his ambition.
Do a google search for 'Noah David Simon' and you can see they did to me what they did to Aaron Swartz. The difference with me is I could see my opposition. This guy was too far on the inside to realize that he was in the lion's den. His crowd was with people who distributed a lot of Palestine propaganda... against free markets. Though Abbas leader of Fatah appears to claim to be Libertarian, Fatah started as a Socialist movement. You can realize that copyright is obsolete without railing against private property. Free markets recognize there are somethings you can not own. It doesn't mean the government owns it. I'm sure Aaron's friends feel they are closer to Libertarians, like Abu Mazen... but that just becomes sustaining an unsustainable system. It's a lie either way. Socialist or Libertarian... it's breaking the rules. Anarchy always defaults to tyranny.
If he had been found guilty of the charges, Swartz faced up to 35 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines, although it has emerged that negotiations between his lawyers and prosecutors had included a potential plea bargain of six months in prison.
Condemnation of prosecutors over the litigation against Swartz continued on Tuesday. A petition to the Obama administration to remove Ortiz from office reached 28,188 signatures, past the crucial 25,000 signatures needed for a White House response.
In July 2011, Ortiz said in a statement about the case: "Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars. It is equally harmful to the victim whether you sell what you have stolen or give it away."
Lawyers for Swartz said that, despite their best efforts, prosecutors had refused to negotiate a plea bargain which did not involve jail time. One also said that MIT refused to agree to a plea bargain in which Swartz did not serve time.
Andy Good, Swartz's initial lawyer, told the Boston Globe that he had warned one prosecutor, Steve Heymann, that his client was a "suicide risk".
Good said: "His reaction was a standard reaction in that office, not unique to Steve. He said: "Fine, we'll lock him up." I'm not saying they made Aaron kill himself. Aaron might have done this anyway. I'm saying they were aware of the risk, and they were heedless."
Lawyers for Swartz said they had offered to accept a deferred prosecution or probation, so that if he did it again he would serve time.
Marty Weinberg, who took the case over from Good, told the paper he nearly negotiated a plea bargain in which Swartz would not serve any time. He said JSTOR signed off on it, but MIT would not.
"There were subsets of the MIT community who were profoundly in support of Aaron," but that support did not override institutional interests, Weinberg told the Globe.
Another of Swartz's attorneys, Elliot Peters, said on Monday that MIT officials were "very cooperative with prosecutors" during the investigation.
"MIT could have handled things differently, rather than inviting law enforcement and turning it into a federal criminal case," Peters said.
(Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz's suicide | Internet & Media)
- We call for this tragedy to be a basis for reform of computer crime laws, and the overzealous prosecutors who use them.
the extreme measures of the prosecution merely reflect Anonymous and groups like EFF
- We call for this tragedy to be a basis for reform of copyright and
intellectual property law, returning it to the proper principles of
common good to the many, rather than private gain to the few.
...actually
that's bullshit. Aaron came off looking like a good guy and guys like
Noah David Simon (that is me) were libeled as stalkers of women. If
anything Aaron realized that he had nothing to live for and it was
probably because of this sicko culture he was a part of that encouraged
him. He would not of been an insider unless he was mentally ill
- We call for this tragedy to be a basis for greater recognition of
the oppression and injustices heaped daily by certain persons and
institutions of authority upon anyone who dares to stand up and be
counted for their beliefs, and for greater solidarity and mutual aid in
response.
try attacking feminism for free expression and see how quickly Anonymous will abandon the martyr
- We call for this tragedy to be a basis for a renewed and unwavering
commitment to a free and unfettered internet, spared from censorship
with equality of access and franchise for all.
that includes violent threats... if not then they should support the Jewish Internet Defense Force
(M.I.T.’s
president, L. Rafael Reif, said he had appointed a prominent professor,
Hal Abelson, to “lead a thorough analysis of M.I.T.’s involvement from
the time that we first perceived unusual activity on our network in fall
2010 up to the present.” He promised to disclose the report, adding,
“It pains me to think that M.I.T. played any role in a series of events
that have ended in tragedy.” )The last post he wrote on that blog, in November, was a detailed analysis of the final installment of the “Batman” series.
The Joker is actually the hero
...only
in the movie Aaron. The rules work only within the given system... He
had no faith and was stuck within the constructs of logic. No faith,
hence the suicide.
Having warned his readers that he was about to reveal the conclusion of the movies, he ended the post
by writing:
Thus Master Wayne is left without solutions. Out of
options, it’s no wonder the series ends with his staged suicide.”
But
Aaron did not fake his suicide. He must of been disappointed by the
third movie.
