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It is a shame that the petition to pardon Swartz has 1/10th of the signatures that the petition to fire Ortiz has. Let's advocate for a government that forgives
by glyphobet 14y ago
It is a shame that the petition to pardon Swartz has 1/10th of the signatures that the petition to fire Ortiz has. Let's advocate for a government that forgives (alleged) crimes as strongly as we advocate for a government that punishes people like Ortiz.
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https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/posthumously-pardon-aaron-swartz/DVpdmSBj https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/posthumously-pardo...
- tkahn6 14y agoSwartz is dead, so I don't know what pardoning him now would accomplish other than securing a useless symbolic 'victory'.
- mpyne 14y agoHe can't even be pardoned; the charges were dropped. Even if the charges were somehow still in effect, the proper thing to do would be to have the charges dropped entirely. A pardon implies guilt, it simply commutes the sentence of the convicted.