the author writes, "These experiences prompted me to consider how Aaron Swartz might have pursued a more aggressive public campaign as part of his legal defense

the author writes, "These experiences prompted me to consider how Aaron Swartz might have pursued a more aggressive public campaign as part of his legal defense." He goes on to mention Mr. Brown, but he also ignores that Brown was given a gag order preventing him engaging in the sort of 'aggressive public campaign' the author encourages the next Aaron Swartz to attempt. Civil rights throughout history are won through extensive civil disobedience, somehow the left and much of the government, and every state apologist continue to advocate that people work within a system that is grotesquely unjust and to throw away the very tools that history has shown are most effective in addresses legitimate grievances. On January 1, 2008 more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail.[0] This doesn't occur in a system of just laws which respect the natural rights of individuals, it occurs in a totalitarian police state beholden to oligarchs and politicians. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...