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Remember the FREE KEVIN bumper stickers? FREE AARON. Just to elaborate... what it seems we have here is a brilliant engineer and idealist leftie that lost his
by rjurney 14y ago
Remember the FREE KEVIN bumper stickers?
FREE AARON.
Just to elaborate... what it seems we have here is a brilliant engineer and idealist leftie that lost his grip on what is reasonable. He seriously fucked up, and then he seriously fucked up by getting caught. He isn't a hardened criminal, he wasn't stealing to make money and he can almost certainly be reformed with a light sentence, community service and probation.
Only the oppositional system doesn't see things that way.
- nikcub 14y agoMitnick was imprisoned without charges
- tptacek 14y agoAaron isn't incarcerated.
- abecedarius 14y agoI have way more sympathy for aaronsw than I had for Mitnick. Maybe this would change if I looked into Mitnick's case, but my prior is that this analogy would not help Aaron.
- hollerith 14y agoSame here. The difference is that the motivation that caused Aaron to break the law is a genuine desire to improve the world -- and that's what advocates for Aaron in the arena of public opinion should focus on.