full-disclosure - Re: petition to remove Aaron Swartz prosecutor

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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:47:50 +0000
From: Scott Herbert <scott.a.herbert@...glemail.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: petition to remove Aaron Swartz prosecutor

On 14/01/2013 20:35, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:02:26 -0500, Jeffrey Walton said:
>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:34 AM,  <richajap@...tmail.fm> wrote:
>>> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
>>>
>>> Above link to remove this prosecutor needs to have signatures by
>>> February 11.
>> Its unfortunate Schwartz committed suicide over the incident.
> >From the fine article:
>
> "On his blog, Swartz had written of his history of depression."
>
> Given that, and the fact that the article doesn't mention a suicide note
> stating Aaron's reasons, it's not entirely clear that he in fact committed
> suicide over the incident.  It may have been one factor out of many.
>
True however his family think it was enogth of an issue to point it out
in their official statement
"Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a
criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial
overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S.
Attorney's office and at MIT contributed to his death." (see
http://www.rememberaaronsw.com/, the section titled "Official statement
from family and partner of Aaron Swartz")

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