Posted on 01/26/2013 7:19:03 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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 message read in part:
Citizens of the world, Anonymous has observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the United States with growing concern. We have marked the departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it was born and enshrined. We have seen the erosion of due process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the "discretion" or prosecutors. We have seen how the law is wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control, authority and power in the interests of oppression or personal gain."
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.
Bump.
That line comes from the Founders of this nation. Why did they not do well?
The entity that he ‘stole” from was the MIT/Harvard’s STOR system where federal grants to MD’s/phD’s undergrads? have been given federal monies to make their ‘discoveries’. If you are a student at MIT or Harvard, you get to access this information for “free” and the author’s recieve no remuneration from their published articles BUT if you are outside this university system and want to access it, you must pay big bucks. I think it’s $23.00 or so for each article and the authors receive NO Remuneration so Swartz was not interfering with a copyright infringement. Our young genius felt it wrong to exclude this information from all people especially since the researchers were not getting paid. Yes he stole surrepticiously BUT Harvard/MIT pulled back their lawsuit on him and he RETURNED all the documents that he had taken to the universities. But the unjust Department of Justice wanted to make him an example and threatened to imprison him for 35 years and fine him a million dollars. He was 26 years old. I am a 73 year old Conservative woman and I can certainly see how this threat from the ever powerful attorney general would put a person over the top. Especially an altruistic one that he was. I like Annonomous’ statement too-brillant.
We are no longer a nation of laws when our government picks and chooses which ones to enforce, immigration laws come to mind, an illegal alien has more rights in the eyes of the government than its’ own natural born citizens, they are wrong, go Anonymous, the video they released is very honest, reign our leaders in, they are out of control!
Legally, it had not been established he had broken the law. He was charged with the crime. No trial, verdict or sentence had been determined as of yet. Gotta be careful here,,please
We are supposed to be a nation of laws.
A government that expects the citizens to obey the laws, but believes itself exempt from them is no longer a “nation of laws.
Maybe, he just didn’t contribute enough of his wealth to the DNC extortionist. That is what got Microsoft in trouble during the great extortionist Bill Clinton’s reign.
When they pass the law that says you must turn in your guns, I expect you to be the first in line. And when they question you about ownership by the rest of your family and friends, I expect you’ll turn them in also because if you break the law for what you believe is some higher good or not, you will have broken the law. We are supposed to be a nation of laws.
More power to you anonymous!!!!!! go after Obama.Biden..Schumer.Cumo,Bloomberg,Pelosi,Reid,all of them....freakin Feinstein....You have alot of people behind you...
More power to you anonymous!!!!!! go after Obama.Biden..Schumer.Cumo,Bloomberg,Pelosi,Reid,all of them....freakin Feinstein....You have alot of people behind you...
Well said!
Because it is the threat of release not the release itself that is the source of their power. They have made a list of demands for reform of the judicial system and have threatened release if those reforms aren't forthcoming. So this is essentially a blackmail attempt. Not that I necessarily have a problem with it.
The part about the resistance has already begun:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2982108/posts
Is that a finger in your pocket or something I should be afraid of?
Wow. Very disturbing.
Not only on the face of what CBS is reporting, but also (now putting on my tinfoil hat) WHY is CBS choosing to report it now? Will it be a move to lay the groundwork for legislation to begin gaining micro-managing regulations /control over ALL copy machines?
(OK- taking off tinfoil hat)
Yeah, I agree that perhaps they should dribble some of it out to show they’ve got the goods. I’ve read their statement and they are making heavily redacted items available to the media to prove they’ve actually got the stuff.
Perhaps you're right, but I think we've moved a couple of light years beyond "dribble" and that dam needs to break wide open.
Getting back to the ideals they rightly use to justify their actions and remind us to uphold, it's time to trust that we'll find the right path once truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us G-d, is known and understood by all of us, instead of being dribbled out and used to support some other story and/or used against us.
Swartz was not a sympathetic character if you read his blog (I don’t know if it’s still up), and he should have fought, and had he been a Conservative, I believe he would have, but as a moonbat he must have believed deeply in the goodness of government, especially the government of the finally arrived moonbat messiah, still the Feds, represented by a “wise Latina”, one Carmen Ortiz, Fed prosecutor, overplayed their hand, and that’s to put it lightly. In fact, they hounded him, unwilling to negotiate with his attorney in good faith. That’s one reason to support these hackers, no matter what soundasleep says.
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