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Was Aaron Swartz Murdered?
January 19, 2013
When Aaron Swartz refused to deal with the devil, did the government "suicide" him?
"You
could eat a sandwich in the time it takes to suffocate from hanging.
If he really was as depressed as media says, he could have easily
gotten a prescription for Xanex, put on some nice music, light some
candles and gone to sleep and never wake up. Why hanging? "
Latest- Gordon Duff Blames CIA "rogue elements" (right!) -- "No question this was a murder."
by Richard Evans
(henrymakow.com)
Six days ago, an internet activist was found hung in his Brooklyn apartment. The coroner and Media say he killed himself.
Swartz
was no Occupy Wall Street hippie. At 27, he'd already reached the top
of his field. He was a software genius and Internet champion. He
co-authored the "RSS 1.0" a widely-used syndication format. he also
co-founded Reddit which was sold to Conde Naste. He founded Open
Library, an internet database dedicated to obtaining public domain
documents that had been appropriated by private interests. He 'hacked'
the Library of Congress database and uploaded it to Open Library making
it available for free.
The
"social media" industry has virtually taken over every aspect of human
communication. This industry increasingly is synonymous with erosion of
privacy and commercialism. The movie, 'The Social Network' glorified
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as a 'genius' at betrayal of friends
and classmates in order to get sex, money, and power.
Aaron
Swartz wasn't as famous as Mark Zuckerberg - but he was an effective
advocate for freedom of information. He wasn't billionaire, or even a
millionaire, though he could have been. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig said, "He never did anything for the money".
LEGAL PROBLEMS
In
2010, Swartz downloaded the entire JSTOR archives because the
organization pays the publishers of scholarly articles, not the authors.
On
July 19th, 2011, the Attorney General of Massachusetts threw the book
at him. He was charged under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,
otherwise known as "hacking". But this broad, fuzzy law wasn't a good
fit for downloading uncopyrighted articles with intent to redistribute.
At
the moment, that's not a crime yet. Making such a thing a crime is
what the PIPA / SOPA bills meant to do. Undaunted by the warning from
Federal muscle to "chill", last year Swartz was a significant organizer
against the SOPA bill that threatened freedom of information access on
the internet.
Lawrence
Lessig, said, "The government was not gonna stop until he admitted he
was a felon. In a world where the architects of the financial crisis
regularly dine at the White House, it's ridiculous to think Aaron Swartz
was a felon."
Lessig knew Aaron for twelve years. He was Swartz' advisor on intellectual property law for Creative Commons and Open Library.
WAS HE MURDERED?
The
mainstream media has been doing a snow job to make us believe that
Aaron Swartz committed suicide by tying a rope around his neck and
hanging himself.
Personally,
I think he would have been creative enough to think of a less horrible
way to die. You could eat a sandwich in the time it takes to suffocate
from hanging. If he really was as depressed as media says, he could
have easily gotten a prescription for Xanex, put on some nice music,
light some candles and gone to sleep and never wake up. Why hanging?
Hanging
is a horrible way to die. The sentence of hanging was intended to send
a message to other offenders "this could happen to you". I think
that's why Aaron Swartz died by hanging. It's a message to other
activists -- probably those he knew who worked with him.
Swartz's
father is an intellectual property consultant to MIT's computer lab. At
Aaron's funeral, he said his son was killed by the government.
Media
has since spun Swartz' father's remark as if it he was speaking
figuratively. Don't you believe it. I don't like the way mainstream
media writers frame Swartz's hanging as a reaction to 'bullying'. It
implies Swartz was afraid of the government, that he was a coward, or
mentally ill.
That's
not it. Swartz's career shows the familiar pattern of attempts to
assimilate him into the system - scholarship to Stanford, lucrative job
under auspices of WIRED, a fellowship from Harvard's institution on
ethics. All these perks failed to control him, so they switched to
Federal muscle tactics.
Each
attempt to control him drove him further beyond the pale. But I think
his death warrant wasn't issued till last year when he became an
effective leader of a million people and stopped the PIPA and SOPA
bills. Effective leaders aren't allowed.
Bertrand
Russell wrote frankly that geniuses would be carefully offered a place
with the elite, but those that persisted in bucking the system would be
exterminated. From "The Scientific Outlook", 1931, Russell wrote;
"On
those rare occasions, when a boy or girl who has passed the age at
which it is usual to determine social status shows such marked ability
as to seem the intellectual equal of the rulers, a difficult situation
will arise, requiring serious consideration. If the youth is content to
abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly
with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he
shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the
rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with
him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined
intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty
to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it."
Lessig said "Aaron Swartz is now an icon, an ideal. He is what we will be fighting for, all of us, for the rest of our lives."
I AGREE.
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Here's a partial list of suspicious 'suicides' or 'accidents' of scientists and politicians that bucked the system.
Other sudden deaths of natural leaders.
Beverly
Eckert organized the 9/11 Family Steering Committee for the 9/11
Commission. Eckert's husband died in the World Trade Center. She was a
prime organizer of families of 911 victims. Within a week of this photo
op with Obama after his inauguration in 2009, she died in a commuter
plane crash in Buffalo, NY. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Eckert
The "Suicide" of Gary Webb (Shot twice in the head)
Politicians
and plane crashes (very incomplete) Note John F. Kennedy, Jr., son of
former President John F. Kennedy, died along with his wife and
sister-in-law when their plane crashed into the Atlantic in 1999. Had
he lived, he could have stolen the Presidential election from Skull and
Bones in 2004.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40902.html
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