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Feds go overboard in prosecuting information activist (2012)

255 points by proksoup 14y ago

anoncow 14y ago
People go overboard punishing other people. Nobody wants to fix things. The copyright system is broken. Nobody in power wants to fix it. Lincoln had civil rights, Mr. Obama, please help fix this mess.
- monsterix 14y ago
  Even as it goes sad on Aaron, this goes on elsewhere in a different setting http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/house-divided/post/wikileaks-and-the-civil-war/2013/01/12/49366074-5cca-11e2-beee-6e38f5215402_blog.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/house-divided/post/wikil... I am so sad that the world has come to this. It's a similar painful story in almost every country that I read about. People are constantly under duress of some kind due to their Government.
  - jakerocheleau 14y ago
    It is sad that we live in an age where basically all freedoms are stripped from the people except for the upper-elite. All the lies, deceit, corruption, it is just wrong on so many levels.
- deleted 14y ago
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- jakerocheleau 14y ago
  "Obama" aka Barry Soetoro aka Harrison J Bounel will not fix things. And he probably won't read your comment.. the best way to get things fixed is by trying to fix them yourself. Talk to people, call your local congressman. Dicsuss these things with other intellectuals and let's all come to a solution which we can implement. Why are we waiting for the president to do something? He is not our Great Leader Führer. I really wish people would stop acting like Obama is going to do anything different. He had 4 years, going into 5, still nothing has changed. If anything copyright infringement attacks are higher than ever. Unfortunately it's up to us if we want these problems fixed.
  - jdlshore 14y ago
    Perpetuating right-wing conspiracy-nut theories ("aka Barry Soetoro...") is unbecoming. If it was a joke, it was in poor taste. Other than that, I agree with your comment. I'll leave this link here for anybody else who was wondering, as I was, what the hell this "aka" nonsense is. http://www.bnd.com/2012/09/22/2334245/was-barack-obama-ever-barry-soetoro.html http://www.bnd.com/2012/09/22/2334245/was-barack-obama-ever-...
    - jakerocheleau 14y ago
      Nice right-left divide mentality, and your use of the conspiracy-lunatic-fringe-nutjob-retard slang is very annoying. I am not right or left wing. Fact is Barack Obama is using a fraudulent Social Security Number(042-68-4425) which belongs to a dead man named Jean Paul Ludwig. 042 is the Connecticut SSN prefix - Barack Obama never lived in CT and did not register for a number in CT. This has nothing to do with democrats or republicans. Conspiracy to commit fraud is a REAL OFFENSE. People go to federal prison for offenses like these. I do not appreciate being scoffed and laughed away based on the "conspiracy nutter" mentality. I guess you can do the research yourself: Illegal SSN 042-68-4425 registered to a man Harrison J Bounel is tied into Obama's old house in Chicago. Here are some links: http://www.examiner.com/article/supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-obama-s-alleged-forged-documents http://www.examiner.com/article/supreme-court-to-hear-case-o... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2766707/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2766707/posts
      - asynchrony 14y ago
        So you're saying that 042-68-4425 belongs to Jean Paul Ludwig, and Harrison J Bounel, and Obama. And despite how trivial it would be to verify all of this, he's been elected president twice? I have to call bullshit. He's obviously a reptilian.
        jakerocheleau 14y ago
        I'm saying 042-68-4425 belonged to Jean Paul Ludwig, but when he died it was illegally forged under Obama's alias "Harrison J Bounel". Harrison J Bounel and Obama are the same person. He has been elected twice because the current power structure supports this sort of criminal behavior. All these elected officials have skeletons in the closet so nobody is going to go against one of their own. Believe whatever you want, I am not really interested in debating with hacker news readers. The truth will come out anyways. And Barry Obama has committed plenty of other felonies such as ordering the murder of a 16 year old American citizen overseas through drone strike http://www.businessinsider.com/alwaki-son-yemen-16-drone-2012-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/alwaki-son-yemen-16-drone-201...
fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
It's nice that we're all upset and making a fuss about the conditions leading to Aaron Schwartz's demise (both the mental health one, and the US Gov. Judiciary one). But the truth of the matter is that most of us have followed these issues in the news, and failed to even attempt to do anything (even trivial action) with respect to situations like this one; which are obviously absurd, especially including Aaron Schwartz's. We're all far too complacent, and cowardly; and if we can't manage to sort this kind of crap out, we probably don't deserve the company of people like him.

255 points by proksoup 14y ago

People go overboard punishing other people. Nobody wants to fix things. The copyright system is broken. Nobody in power wants to fix it. Lincoln had civil rights, Mr. Obama, please help fix this mess.

monsterix 14y ago
Even as it goes sad on Aaron, this goes on elsewhere in a different setting http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/house-divided/post/wikileaks-and-the-civil-war/2013/01/12/49366074-5cca-11e2-beee-6e38f5215402_blog.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/house-divided/post/wikil... I am so sad that the world has come to this. It's a similar painful story in almost every country that I read about. People are constantly under duress of some kind due to their Government.
- jakerocheleau 14y ago
  It is sad that we live in an age where basically all freedoms are stripped from the people except for the upper-elite. All the lies, deceit, corruption, it is just wrong on so many levels.
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jakerocheleau 14y ago
"Obama" aka Barry Soetoro aka Harrison J Bounel will not fix things. And he probably won't read your comment.. the best way to get things fixed is by trying to fix them yourself. Talk to people, call your local congressman. Dicsuss these things with other intellectuals and let's all come to a solution which we can implement. Why are we waiting for the president to do something? He is not our Great Leader Führer. I really wish people would stop acting like Obama is going to do anything different. He had 4 years, going into 5, still nothing has changed. If anything copyright infringement attacks are higher than ever. Unfortunately it's up to us if we want these problems fixed.
- jdlshore 14y ago
  Perpetuating right-wing conspiracy-nut theories ("aka Barry Soetoro...") is unbecoming. If it was a joke, it was in poor taste. Other than that, I agree with your comment. I'll leave this link here for anybody else who was wondering, as I was, what the hell this "aka" nonsense is. http://www.bnd.com/2012/09/22/2334245/was-barack-obama-ever-barry-soetoro.html http://www.bnd.com/2012/09/22/2334245/was-barack-obama-ever-...
  - jakerocheleau 14y ago
    Nice right-left divide mentality, and your use of the conspiracy-lunatic-fringe-nutjob-retard slang is very annoying. I am not right or left wing. Fact is Barack Obama is using a fraudulent Social Security Number(042-68-4425) which belongs to a dead man named Jean Paul Ludwig. 042 is the Connecticut SSN prefix - Barack Obama never lived in CT and did not register for a number in CT. This has nothing to do with democrats or republicans. Conspiracy to commit fraud is a REAL OFFENSE. People go to federal prison for offenses like these. I do not appreciate being scoffed and laughed away based on the "conspiracy nutter" mentality. I guess you can do the research yourself: Illegal SSN 042-68-4425 registered to a man Harrison J Bounel is tied into Obama's old house in Chicago. Here are some links: http://www.examiner.com/article/supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-obama-s-alleged-forged-documents http://www.examiner.com/article/supreme-court-to-hear-case-o... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2766707/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2766707/posts
    - asynchrony 14y ago
      So you're saying that 042-68-4425 belongs to Jean Paul Ludwig, and Harrison J Bounel, and Obama. And despite how trivial it would be to verify all of this, he's been elected president twice? I have to call bullshit. He's obviously a reptilian.
      - jakerocheleau 14y ago
        I'm saying 042-68-4425 belonged to Jean Paul Ludwig, but when he died it was illegally forged under Obama's alias "Harrison J Bounel". Harrison J Bounel and Obama are the same person. He has been elected twice because the current power structure supports this sort of criminal behavior. All these elected officials have skeletons in the closet so nobody is going to go against one of their own. Believe whatever you want, I am not really interested in debating with hacker news readers. The truth will come out anyways. And Barry Obama has committed plenty of other felonies such as ordering the murder of a 16 year old American citizen overseas through drone strike http://www.businessinsider.com/alwaki-son-yemen-16-drone-2012-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/alwaki-son-yemen-16-drone-201...

fnordfnordfnord 14y ago

It's nice that we're all upset and making a fuss about the conditions leading to Aaron Schwartz's demise (both the mental health one, and the US Gov. Judiciary one). But the truth of the matter is that most of us have followed these issues in the news, and failed to even attempt to do anything (even trivial action) with respect to situations like this one; which are obviously absurd, especially including Aaron Schwartz's. We're all far too complacent, and cowardly; and if we can't manage to sort this kind of crap out, we probably don't deserve the company of people like him.