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Message-ID: <50F46EF6.9020003@googlemail.com> 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") Content of type "text/html" skipped Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (554 bytes) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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