Killed By The US Government

[AiA in Atlanta]

egregious prosecutorial overreach and this fragile young man couldn't cope

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz was "killed by the government," his father told mourners Tuesday during his son's funeral in suburban Chicago.

Swartz, who help create Reddit and RSS, the technology behind blogs, podcasts and other web-based subscription services, was found dead Friday in his New York apartment. He was facing federal charges that alleged he illegally gained access to millions of articles from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer archive.

Robert Swartz said during the service in Highland Park that his son was "hounded by the government, and MIT refused him," the Chicago Sun-Times reported

"He was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles," he said.

Swartz, 26, was facing charges that carried a maximum penalty of decades in prison. His trial was scheduled to begin in April.

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz had no comment about Robert Swartz's remarks, Ortiz spokeswoman Christina DiIorio-Sterling said.

Swartz's family also lashed out against prosecutors Saturday, saying the death was "the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach."

Swartz's case highlighted society's uncertain, evolving view of how to treat people who break into computer systems and share data not to enrich themselves, but to make it available to others.

Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the World Wide Web, and Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, director of the Safra Center for Ethics where Swartz was once a fellow, both spoke at the funeral.


"We felt the indictment was nonsense and that he would be acquitted," Berners-Lee told the newspaper after the service.

[mellie]

He was a member of Avaaz, nuff said.

---- Furthermore, it's my understanding that his Jewish family were overwhelmed with disappointment after having watched CT footage of their Harvard graduate programming son break into a database like a common petty thief.

He tried to pinch millions of Articles written by gifted writers and academics all over the world for the purpose of raising funds for his online Avaaz socialist Zionist lefty h-activist shenanigans.

Such a shady organisation is Avaaz.

Another wayward lefty-loon bites the dust.




Avaaz is not unlike GetUp.

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Furthermore, Avaaz was not the only organisation he was a member of, but more about that later.

[mellie]

If you want to blame someone Aia...blame these extremist clicktivist/hacktivist groups such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaaz .... and GetUp.


He was a bright boy, and now he's dead, and not because of the US government.

Computer security expert Alex Stamos, one of Swartz's expert witnesses, argued that both JSTOR's website and MIT's network were largely unprotected and that Swartz did not "hack" them, try to hide his activity, or cause any actual harm

Didn't try to hide his activity?

So why did he try to conceal his identity whilst stealing journal articles from his workplace database?




He was making money from pinching articles which he claimed were "for a good cause" and then claimed he didn't profit from his crimes, which is absolute crap.

This time he got caught red handed, bad luck!

But you watch the leftard cnut-bags scream persecution of a good Jewish boy come Samaritan/Robin Hood.


I reckon by the end of this week, he will have reached Jesus like status, whereby Avaaz and Getup will claim he died for a charitable cause... or as a direct result of the US governments "over-reaching" laws and sins.

They just don't get it... theft is theft.

If someone stole your car with a view to auctioning it on some rogue auction site in the name of 'said' charity, would this make it right?

Would you happily drop the charges?

[AiA in Atlanta]

Westboro Baptist Church Drops Aaron Swartz Funeral Protest After Anonymous Vows Action

Anonymous is like a real-life superhero.

After the tragic suicide of Reddit co-founder and Internet activist Aaron Swartz, hacktivist group Anonymous vowed to derail picketing efforts by the hate-mongering members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who threatened to protest Swartz's funeral on Tuesday. When members of Anonymous and supporters showed up to block the WBC's picket line, the quasi-religious group was nowhere to be seen.

Westboro Baptist Church on Sunday announced plans to protest Swarz's open funeral in a press release titled "GOD H8S Cyber Criminal THUGS."

"Cyber criminals are the latest face of this nation's and this world's raging at God and His Servants at WBC," reads the Westboro press release, via Twitter account @WBCSays. "Now the gloves are off, cyber rebels! ... We will picket the funeral, the LORD willing, so that in that Great Day of His Wrath, your blood is not on our hands."

A crowd showed up to the funeral home in Highland Park, Ill., on Tuesday, willing to stand in the way of Westboro members to prevent them from getting close to the procession, according to a tweet sent from Anon-affiliated account @Anon2World. According to a tweet from Anonymous mouthpiece account @YourAnonNews, the WBC's lawyer contacted police to say that WBC would not be attending the funeral.

[mantra]

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz was "killed by the government," his father told mourners Tuesday during his son's funeral in suburban Chicago.

Before the father even accused the government of murder - when the article first appeared it just shouted "assassination" - a fate which awaits Julian Assange.

hacktivist group Anonymous vowed to derail picketing efforts by the hate-mongering members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who threatened to protest Swartz's funeral on Tuesday

I've seen a documentary on these hillbillies. It's amazing they haven't been shut down.

[mellie]

Mantra, I think you may have ejaculated your god-hate junk in the wrong thread.

This topic is about... hang on, I'll have to go back and check.


Oh, that's right... some thieving Zionist Jewish come eco-socialist opportunist/hactivist (and religious/cult youth climate change leader ) tops himself because he got caught red handed stealing.

[mellie]

Westboro Baptist Church Drops Aaron Swartz Funeral Protest After Anonymous Vows Action

Anonymous is like a real-life superhero.

After the tragic suicide of Reddit co-founder and Internet activist Aaron Swartz, hacktivist group Anonymous vowed to derail picketing efforts by the hate-mongering members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who threatened to protest Swartz's funeral on Tuesday. When members of Anonymous and supporters showed up to block the WBC's picket line, the quasi-religious group was nowhere to be seen.

Westboro Baptist Church on Sunday announced plans to protest Swarz's open funeral in a press release titled "GOD H8S Cyber Criminal THUGS."

"Cyber criminals are the latest face of this nation's and this world's raging at God and His Servants at WBC," reads the Westboro press release, via Twitter account @WBCSays. "Now the gloves are off, cyber rebels! ... We will picket the funeral, the LORD willing, so that in that Great Day of His Wrath, your blood is not on our hands."

A crowd showed up to the funeral home in Highland Park, Ill., on Tuesday, willing to stand in the way of Westboro members to prevent them from getting close to the procession, according to a tweet sent from Anon-affiliated account @Anon2World. According to a tweet from Anonymous mouthpiece account @YourAnonNews, the WBC's lawyer contacted police to say that WBC would not be attending the funeral.

AIA, that was not the real anonymous, and likewise, re- the DJ radio hoax threat, that wasn't the real Anonymous making threats either.

Just so you know.

OK

[mantra]

Mantra, I think you may have ejaculated your god-hate junk in the wrong thread.

This topic is about... hang on, I'll have to go back and check.

Oh, that's right... some thieving Zionist Jewish activist (and religious youth leader ) tops himself because he got caught red handed stealing,

Swartz deserved imprisonment but didn't deserve being hounded to death.

No offence Mel - but you're beginning to sound like RS. Put me on ignore if you think I'm off topic.

[mellie]

Mantra, I think you may have ejaculated your god-hate junk in the wrong thread.

This topic is about... hang on, I'll have to go back and check.

Oh, that's right... some thieving Zionist Jewish activist (and religious youth leader ) tops himself because he got caught red handed stealing,

Swartz deserved imprisonment but didn't deserve being hounded to death.

No offence Mel - but you're beginning to sound like RS. Put me on ignore if you think I'm off topic.

You dag.



I would never ignore you.

And I agree with you...though what constitutes for hounding?

He was a high profile individual, and that's just how the sensationalist American media operates, ...of which worked to his advantage in some ways with respects to his "causes" though had a flip side and worked against him when they turned on him.
His heavy involvement with all manner of eco-socialist activities was of interest....such as..http://aycc.org.au/

The young digital prodigy Aaron Swartz, who had worked closely with the Australian groups GetUp! and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition had a history of mental instability, though this doesn't mean he was suicidal that or should not have been brought to justice.

He has a colourful history for breaking the law..

[AiA in Atlanta]

Why do hackers freak out those in power? Could it be that finally the little guy has a way to level the playing field and fight back and that scares them?

WASHINGTON -- The hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide.

The website of the commission, an independent agency of the judicial branch, was taken over early Saturday and replaced with a message warning that when Swartz killed himself two weeks ago "a line was crossed."

The hackers say they've infiltrated several government computer systems and copied secret information that they now threaten to make public.

Family and friends of Swartz, who helped create Reddit and RSS, say he killed himself after he was hounded by federal prosecutors. Officials say he helped post millions of court documents for free online and that he illegally downloaded millions of academic articles from an online clearinghouse.