Gotta start somewhere man... -----Original Message----- From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:19 PM To: cf-community Subject: RE: Aaron Swartz (Reddit Cofounder) was 'killed by the government,' father tells mourners
The war on drugs is much wider than just pot. On Jan 16, 2013 6:34 PM, "Eric Roberts" <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > I think people are waking up to the war on drugs...at least people in > WA and CO... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:ju...@wiredotter.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 12:58 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Aaron Swartz (Reddit Cofounder) was 'killed by the > government,' > father tells mourners > > > I think there is a big distinction between legally culpable and > morally culpable. Might the prosecutor be legally culpable for > hounding Schwartz to the point of suicide? Almost certainly not. Is > the prosecutor morally culpable? From what I've seen thus far, I'd > tend to lean this way but there is a lot I do not yet know. > > And as for the point about financial meltdown prosecution versus this > sort of prosecution, uh, yeah. That's how the fucked up criminal > justice system has worked for a long, long time. Next thing you know, > white people might wake up to the war on drugs. Unlikely, but hey, you never know. > > Judah > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Cameron Childress > <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:12 PM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > If the prosecutor was working within the confines of the law, then > > > i > > can't > > > hold him accountable for the illogical response the kid made. If > > > evidence shows otherwise, then yeah, I think there is culpability > there. > > > > > > > I agree with you, but "working within the confines of the law" > > really does allow quite a bit of harassment. I don't know enough > > facts to say wether that happened here or not, but it sure looks > > like it's possible. Aaron was also a big public opponent of things > > like SOPA, which could support an urge by a government prosecutor > > (who may be benefited hugely from SOPA) to single him out. > > > > I'm not a huge conspiracy nut so I'm not saying that any of this is true. > > The jury is still out on all of this. But it's worrying, in a > > general sense. > > > > -Cameron > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360241 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
