Re: petition to remove Aaron Swartz prosecutor

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:35 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:02:26 -0500, Jeffrey Walton said:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:34 AM,  <richajap () fastmail 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.
Perhaps. In the absence of a note, all we have to go on is the family
and girlfriends experience with his personality: "On Saturday, his
family and girlfriend called his death "the product of a criminal
justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach" and
blamed decisions by the Massachusetts U.S. attorney's office and MIT
for contributing to his death."

Jeff

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