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24 Mar 2013, 6:27 am

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/2 ... 34627.html

I wonder if this will lead into probes of the treatment of Barrett Brown, Jeremy Hammond, and Bradley Manning.

I still stand by the opinion that 35 years in prison for hacking a school website and releasing academic papers is ludicrously excessive.


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24 Mar 2013, 11:13 am

I'm glad you posted this. This is the first I heard.


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26 Mar 2013, 10:15 am

PM wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/al-franken-eric-holder_n_2934627.html

I wonder if this will lead into probes of the treatment of Barrett Brown, Jeremy Hammond, and Bradley Manning.

I still stand by the opinion that 35 years in prison for hacking a school website and releasing academic papers is ludicrously excessive.


True. Ten lashes with a cat-o-nine-tails would have been sufficient.

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26 Mar 2013, 1:38 pm

http://www.popehat.com/2013/03/24/three ... artz-case/

Swartz was neither singled out or treated unusually, this is just how the federal justice system does business.


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26 Mar 2013, 1:51 pm

Dox47 wrote:
http://www.popehat.com/2013/03/24/three-things-you-may-not-get-about-the-aaron-swartz-case/

Swartz was neither singled out or treated unusually, this is just how the federal justice system does business.


Hackers are the new terrorists, so I buy the 35+ year sentence, along with the 105+ year sentence that they are trying to pin on Barrett Brown.


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27 Mar 2013, 1:22 am

105 years? I thought it was a mere 100, 45 of which are for posting a link on a discussion site. These political prisoners must be freed and those responsible for their imprisonment must be punished. Neoliberal penality is real folks, they're taking away freedom in the name of liberty.