[liberationtech] Remember Aaron Swartz

[Shava Nerad]

Actually it was this woman:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz

An overzealous US Atty who'd just been named woman of the year by the
Boston Globe and was the heir apparent to a very popular black Dem
governor, as the latinx woman governor to-be.

I could tell you a bunch about her, but suffice it to say that she was
climbing the ladder on a series of show trials, mostly on the back of civil
liberties, and pulling some serious over-reach.

I had spoken to a bunch of the Berkman crowd about some of these cases and
was shrugged off.

Then she went after one of our own.

We made sure she was not elected dog catcher, after Aaron.  But there are
still men in jail for 30 years who shouldn't be, because of her.

We got a republican governor out of it, but he's not half bad. Well, maybe
half.

And I think the DOJ probably instructed her to make it "a federal case"
because of PACER, maybe SOPA/PIPA.  They were waiting for Aaron to jaywalk,
as my father would have said.

Yrs,
Shava Nerad

On Sat, Nov 9, 2019, 12:03 PM bo0od <bo0od at riseup.net> wrote:

> US gov killed him, FBI (Fuck Bullshit Intelligence)...  <- something
> like  these sentences should be always put as a reminder how the USA was
> and still corrupted.
>
> Thanks for sharing!
>
> Yosem Companys:
> > From: Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>
> >
> > How many of you remember Aaron Swartz? Time passes so quickly. I was
> > happy to see that the Internet Archive is celebrating his work on
> > freedom of information in a very innovative way.
> >
> >
> https://blog.archive.org/2019/11/06/7th-annual-aaron-swartz-day-at-the-internet-archive/
> >
> > For those that do not know who he was:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
> >
> > Anriette
> >
> >
>
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