Photo from Aaron Swartz's Funeral
Aaron Swartz's father accuses the U.S. government for his son's death:
“Aaron did not commit suicide but was killed by the government. Someone who made the world a better place was pushed to his death by the government.”
Quote from article :Dad: Aaron Swartz 'Pushed to His Death by the Government' 'He was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles' - Common Dreams staff, Jan.15, 2013
Perhaps the greatest crime that Manning committed was one of embarrassing the military and disturbing the status quo and one also has to wonder why the newspapers that profited from the publication of the events are not being brought to task. Manning is accused of aiding the enemy but surely the members of Al-Qaeda can read the newspaper.
Quote from : Punishment Before Trial: More Than 1,000 Days and Counting for Bradley Manning
by Graham Nash via Common Dreams.org, Jan. 15, 2013
News Items;
* The persecution of whistleblowers and 'dissidents' by the Obama Regime
* The persecution and suicide of Aaron Swartz shades of McCarthyism
Aaron's family blames the government for pushing Aaron to the extend that he committed suicide -his blood is now on their hands
* was there a conflict of interests since the husband of the prosecutor is an Executive at IBM.
* The Persecution and abuse and torture of Whistleblower Bradley Manning
Just because Obama does the right thing on this issue or that such as gun control or Gay rights does not give him a free pass on all other issues where he has not done the right thing ie close Guantanamo, stop the insanity of the Global War On Terrorism, stop drone attacks that inevitably kill civilians, stop using weapons condemned by the International Community such as Cluster bombs, White phosphorus, land mines etc.
Freedom to Connect: Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) on Victory to Save Open Internet, Fight Online Censors | from DemocracyNow via Common Ddreams.org, Jan. 14 2013.
Dad: Aaron Swartz 'Pushed to His Death by the Government' 'He was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles' - Common Dreams staff, Jan.15, 2013
Aaron Swartz was “killed by the government,” his father, Robert Swartz said at Aaron's funeral Tuesday morning in Highland Park, Illinois.
Swartz said his son was “hounded by the government, and MIT refused him.”
“He was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles,” he said.
Aaron, 26, was found dead on Friday of a reported suicide.
“Aaron did not commit suicide but was killed by the government. Someone who made the world a better place was pushed to his death by the government.”
Meanwhile, the husband of Carmen Ortiz -- the Obama administration's Boston-based US Attorney spearheading the Aaron Swartz prosecution -- has bizarrely publicly criticized Aaron's family.
Tom Dolan, an IBM executive, posted on his @TomJDolan Twitter feed: "Truly incredible that in their own son's obit they blame others for his death and make no mention of the 6 month offer."
Dolan's comments attracted outrage on Twitter. Dolan's account was deleted earlier today.
Also check out;
IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twitter to Defend His Wife by jessica Roy via Betabeat.com,Jan. 15, 2013
Justice System "Overreach" Blamed in Suicide of Open-Access Technology Activist
By Declan Butler and Nature News Blog Scientific American , jan. 15, 2013
Aaron Swartz faced an imminent trial for having downloaded some four million articles from a not-for-profit scholarly archive, and a possible penalty of 35 years in prison and a $1-million fine, which some call disproportionate to his actions
Aaron Swartz's Suicide Puts Internet Openness Fight In Spotlight by John Keilman and Sally Ho, Chicago Tribune via Business Insider,Jan. 15, 2013
Being legal is not equivalent to being moral or ethical. There are many people who are unable to see this difference . Just because it is illegal to use marijuana this does not mean that it is also immoral.
Targeted assassinations may be seen as legal but this does not mean that such actions are moral.
Just because George W. Bush believed it was legal to torture POWs doesn't make it moral.
Just because Bush 's lies and propaganda to give a legal veneer for a war of aggression against Iraq did not make it moral. Those citizens who supported the attack on Iraq are not themselves guilty of an immoral act because they were led to their decision based upon faulty intel and overwhelming environment of lies and propaganda which we could call 'the fog of propaganda'.
The U.S. government and President Obama are using whatever tactics they can to shut down 'American Dissidents' Aaron Swartz is just the latest victim of Obama's war on activists , whistleblowers and anyone using the tactics of Civil Disobedience.So Whistleblower Bradly Manning is still being held unjustly in U.S. prison where he has been subjected to abuse and torture. If Aaron Swartz had gone to jail would his guard be given the 'green light' to abuse and torture him. American prisoners begin more and more to look like those in Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia , Syria etc.
In the end when it comes to Aaron Swartz the U.S. government got its pound of flesh thereby hoping to send a warning to others who might follow in his footsteps battling the powers that be, the status quo. While Bradley Manning has managed to survive all of the abuse heaped upon him.
So Progressives erroneously defend any policy which is supposedly moral and the Right thing to do if it is merely legal. Drone attacks even if legal under U.S. Law is still not just illegal under international Law and considered a war crime but is on the face of it immoral.
For instance more and more self-proclaimed liberals and progressives who support President Obama go out of their way to defend him and make excuses for his actions or lack of actions. And now these progressive feel they have to defend Obama's Drone attacks which are creating far more so called terrorists than they are killing. What are the people in these areas who feel they are being abused and persecuted by the US military Juggernaut? Some people in these areas under attack after seeing their friends and neighbors and their loved ones and their homeland being destroyed without just cause grab their weapons and take up arms against what they perceive as brutal , inhumane foreign invaders .
Bradley Manning has now spent 1,000 days in prison without due process or a speedy trial and his treatment has been characterized as unjustified and "tantamount to torture"
Punishment Before Trial: More Than 1,000 Days and Counting for Bradley Manning
by Graham Nash via Common Dreams.org, Jan. 15, 2013
I read the news about Colonel Denise Lind's ruling in the case against Bradley Manning with great interest. She ruled that Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of releasing thousands of military and diplomatic emails and cables to Wikileaks was indeed subjected to excessively harsh treatment whilst in military detention and this must surely be seen as a small victory for the Manning defense team.and so it goes,
The punishment of Bradley Manning goes directly against the Uniform Code of Military Justice's own laws, namely Section 813 article 13, which basically states, "No punishment before trial." This law was obviously broken. People in this country are entitled to a "speedy trial," which is normally between 100 and 120 days from the date of the crime. Bradley Manning has been incarcerated for more than 1,000 days before his trial has begun and even a United Nations investigation confirmed that Manning was being held in inhumane conditions that was tantamount to torture.
n my humble opinion, the judges' ruling, granting Manning a 112-day reduction in any sentence he might receive, is welcome but far short of true justice. If the military broke its own laws and President Obama even declared publicly that Manning had broken the law, then how can anyone say that this could be a "fair" trial? Which military judge is going to go against the statements of his or her commander in chief?
An internal investigation by the Marine Corps, which operates the prison in which Manning was being held, stated that Manning's jailers violated their own policies in imposing oppressive conditions. The Obama administration's own State Department spokesman, PJ Crowley, denounced the detention conditions as "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid" and was fired for his outspokenness.
President Obama, a constitutional lawyer, pays great lip service to "whistle blowers," maintaining that the U.S. needs people who will attempt to tell the truth, that the country needs people of courage to step forward when they witness wrongdoing of any kind, but cannot see the need to protect Bradley Manning. Perhaps the greatest crime that Manning committed was one of embarrassing the military and disturbing the status quo and one also has to wonder why the newspapers that profited from the publication of the events are not being brought to task. Manning is accused of aiding the enemy but surely the members of Al-Qaeda can read the newspaper.
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