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

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Message-ID: <18895.1358195716@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:35:16 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: noloader@...il.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: petition to remove Aaron Swartz prosecutor

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.

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