Aaron Swartz - hero of the internet - dies at 26.

[ghostrider]

The ptb expose their hand when they move against free speech and firearms... once they control what they want, they can't blame mistakes on anyone but themselves because they control it ... no hiding anymore, no secrets anymore... I only hope this emboldens others to speak freely and openly... the harder they push, the more life will try and balance out ... creating a problem , they forget that move creates a solution ...life will always try and balance ...

[SilentFeathers]

F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh2dFngFsg

[Gardener]

Might we say 'night of long knives'

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
The death of Swartz seems 99.9% random and quite believable to be a suicide.......until,

connecting it too:

On January 4, 2013 - Rifle Manufacturer John Noveske Mysteriously Killed Shortly After Posting Controversial Article
http://www.texasgopvote.com/issues/s...y-after-005014

On January 8, 2013 - FPSRussia, (pro-gun youtube channel) employee found killed in Rural Georgia, US.
http://www.dailypaul.com/269207/fpsr...ral-georgia-us

On January 11-2013 - Swartz found dead. Important to note he was an Obama "kill list" critic and quite "outspoken".

...then it becomes suspicious and "coincidental".....until,

connecting it too;

The Jones/Morgan interview event, the Sandy Hook shooting event, gun grabbing political agenda, Aurora shooting event, and even the Getzinger death in early 2012 (among a few other things)

....then a mysterious and strange pattern emerges that is somewhat beyond suspicious and "coincidental".

Is it just our imagination running wild to consider that something or someone has "intentionally" created or caused this strange pattern of events that seem to mysteriously dove-tail together??????

As Bill mentioned, will it be hammered in to us a bit more in the next couple weeks or so, so we (many of us) snap out of the doubt and or denial phase and get more in to the "I got the message" phase?

[Corncrake]

I am still feeling sick about this. Suicide or murder? Either way it is murder as he was driven to it - a brilliant and honourable young man gone for ever.

Another excellent article this time from the Guardian: The Inspiring Heroism of Aaron Swartz: The internet freedom activist committed suicide on Friday at age 26, but his life was driven by courage and passion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...roism-suicide1

[Muzz]

From RT

'Aaron was killed by the government' - Robert Swartz on his son's death

The father of information activist Aaron Swartz blames US prosecutors for his son’s death, RT’s Andrew Blake reports from an emotional Tuesday morning funeral outside of Chicago. read more

[Rahkyt]

So, the perceived "safety" of being a Public Figure, known by thousands and millions is no guarantee of safety. Not that it ever really was. I think these deaths are indicative of the sensitivity of the areas that these people were involved in. The more important these areas are to the plans of the Elite factions, the more they are willing to risk public exposure by going after high profile figures in the alternative media.

[learninglight]

Hi all, sorry for long copy/paste job but its well worth the read imo

FYI Link : http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2013...-not-35-years/

Aaron Swartz was Murdered – He Faced 3 Months in Jail Not 35 Years!
Posted on January 16, 2013 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton

Aaron Swartz did not take his own life. He was murdered in order to save the state the embarrassment of losing their trumped up trial against him. He faced a maximum of 6 months in jail, reduced to 3 for good behavior as is the law, not 35 years as the complicit press will tell you. He was killed so that a movement he helped lead would be crippled right before another SOPA / PIPA internet crushing bill is about to take shape. He was killed because he refused a deal and would have stoked the imagination of the opposition by winning in court. Unfortunately, far too few “alternative” activists out there are willing to make this statement. Activists who owe this young man a great deal as they enjoy a free and open internet which is about to close down forever.

Aaron Swartz was murdered and I am sure he won’t be the last. Perhaps the most obvious lesson here is too the “hacktivist” community at large: when we bust you and drum up charges against you, you turn and serve “the greater good” or… you get “Swartzed”.

Swartz was a leading and effective activist standing opposed to the neo-liberalization of America and the people investigating his death are Billioniare Bloomberg’s “mini-CIA”. Get the picture? I guess he’s lucky he wasn’t renditioned to Djibouti like other dissidents as is the custom under Obama.
When I first read the story of Aaron Swartz I have to say I was not all that impressed with the guy. He seemed like just another “tech-geek miracle” made by the Intelligence Department Industrial Complex like so many before him. I based that on what I saw happen to Reddit first-hand when they sold themselves to Conde Nast and began a program of running down important articles on Reddit and totally erasing some as soon as they were posted.

And I am also aware that the shareware and open-software world which Aaron was involved in, is full of Trojans and trackers and cognitive infiltrators doing all they can to put all kinds of interesting software on your computer that does all kinds of malicious stuff.
Top all of that off with his involvement in the “hacktivist’ community which is replete with hackers who have been busted and now serve “the greater good” through the FBI and the NSA and you have basically a resume of deception for Mr. Swartz. Wired magazine raves about him, which is reason enough to be suspicious of anyone. If a globalist rag like that raved about my mother I would have to start watching her closely as well. Very closely.
But after seeing a couple of his videos and reading a bit more about him I’m starting to think he may have at least had some good intentions about him. He seems to have the right idea. When he talks about stopping SOPA and PIPA he doesn’t talk about what HE did, he talks about what WE did. He rightly says that institutions like GOOGLE jumped on the publicity bandwagon once they knew the game was up as did many lawmakers. And that is true. He says what is important too remember is that we as a community stopped one of the most sought after freedom crushing bills by simply coming together and saying no and in that he is absolutely correct.
The narrative is now that he killed himself due to this pending federal case but is simply bull****.

From what I can tell of the guy, he was looking forward to beating it on behalf of himself and the cause and it looks like there are many who are much more educated on the case than I am who say it was a weak case at best and he was bound to win it.
In fact, the husband of the over-reaching prosecutor who brought the case against him on behalf of Eric Holder’s Justice Department claims that they had offered him a 6 month deal meaning he would have been sentenced to 6 months in jail and probably served half of that.

Swartz was so confident in his ability to beat the charges, that he refused that deal about 2 months ago, preferring to go to trial.

Fact is, he made a mistake. He chose to live in New York City where Billionaire Mayor For Life is in charge of the police department and has his own “mini-CIA” in the NYPD Intelligence Division. And we all know what the CIA does too prominent activists and leaders in other countries when they stand opposed to our “national interests”, don’t we?

You can expect the investigation into the scene in his home to be, shall we say, less than meticulous. In fact, best bet as too his murders may have actually been the Intelligence Division guys assigned to the investigation. But that’s just a guess. Damn sure makes more sense than “suicide”

By all accounts this was a good guy. He was about to poke another stick in the eye of the ruling class and their Vichy politicians once again. The “Justice” Department couldn’t back down or that would have ceded more ground to the “extremists” and provided us with more fuel yet again. They couldn’t take him to trial, like Gadhafi before him, because that would have exposed them as weak and over-reaching to make a political point.
By offering him a 6 month (3 month really) deal on a case which is being hailed as a 35 year sentence in the complicit media outlets, they were BEGGING to be let off the hook. But Aaron Swartz didn’t bite. He had them where he wanted them and he knew it.

He also probably knew that suicide would not only be a coward’s way out for him, but would damage the cause he seemed to care deeply about.

Judging from what little I know about him and what little I have seen and heard him say, Aaron Swartz was not a coward. And no matter how many times the Vichy prestitutes wave that “suicide note” in front of you, remember, he wrote that in 2007… basically as a joke.
Swartz died without leaving a note. He died leaving a hole in the cause that he cared deeply for. And he knew in his heart that up until the judge rang down the gavel to start the trial, he could always have taken the 3 month plea deal (which by then would have been even better!) and not faced 35 years in prison.
He also died on the very same day that monolitic and massive Verizon announced it’s own “6 strikes rule” which would effectively sensor Verizon’s customers by almost completely removing them from the internet if some “copyright holder’ filed a “complaint” against them.

Swarts would surely have had a field day with that.
Effectively what has happened is a voice for the people was silenced. He was taken out of the game and the alternative “activist” community is sitting back scared saying very little or next to nothing which is not only a crying shame, it’s an insult to the man who seems to have given his life for one of our most basic freedoms.
He won’t be the last
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One thing that I really liked about this guy in the little I know about him is his opinion on knowledge and that it belongs to all of us. He said, and I paraphrase “Access to knowledge must not be measured by access to money” and that is why he hacked into the JSTOR files and released those academic journals for all the people for free. That was his major crime against humanity that the Obama Justice Department wanted to prosecute him for and that is ultimately why he died.
I wish to put this bluntly: Aaron Swartz was murdered. All the circumstantial evidence points to it. In the land of the Bloomberg Gestapo, there will be no real investigation, there will be no hard evidence to support that claim. But I feel that is the case and I am sorry and almost ashamed that the alternative community that owes at least partly their current measure of freedom of speech to Aaron, have not come out in droves to protest what has happened

Aaron’s father said the government killed his son. He has a different take on how, but in reality, he is absolutely correct.
He just doesn’t know how correct

Sharon

[Sabrina]

http://www.aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/...-elite_16.html

16 Jan

JEWISH HERO AARON SWARTZ; EXPOSING ELITE CHILD ABUSE

Aaron Swartz may be a hero, who was murdered for trying to expose dangerous elite pedophiles.

Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly, asks:

"Was Aaron Swartz killed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Satanic Child Porn Ring?"

Reportedly, MIT is linked to an elite child abuse ring, and Aaron Swartz was trying to expose this ring.

According to:

http://rense.com/general95/swartz.html

1. Swartz was a risk to the people at MIT who produce child porn for "a clientele that includes the highest echelon of the State Department, major corporations, intelligence agencies, the military brass, and the White House."

It appears that swartz "died in a heroic attempt to expose the perversion that has corrupted the hearts and minds of the global elite..."

(pix at link)

Nicholas Negroponte with the notorious President Kagame. "The 'One Laptop per Child' project was initiated by the MIT Media Lab founder, who is the brother of former UN ambassador and intelligence official John Negroponte."

2. Nicholas Negroponte works with MIT and allegedly is involved with child abuse videos.

"Nicholas Negroponte, you have no place to hide... You are under watch and will be relentlessly tracked down, not just for child porn and pimping children but now as an accomplice to murder.

"Your only way out is to turn over the video files along with the entire list of names, and you had better do it sooner than later because the powerful pedophiles on that list are going to silence you to cover their own tracks...."

3. From 2003 till 2009, Yoichi Shimatsu worked on-and-off in Cambodia with an international team of anti-pedophilia activists.

"The team came to Cambodia following up on a slew of leads, including photos of naked infants taken by Newsweek Tokyo bureau chief Bernard Krisher on display at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong, a den of pedophiles connected with the Jimmy Savile case.

"Former British Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patton is now widely suspected as a high-level protector of the satanic BBC rapist and his old-boy circle..."

4. Reportedly, an orphanage was used for child abuse.

"The Cambodian police shut down the orphanage’s satellite-link tower, which was being used to uplink child-porn videos and connect American pedophiles to their little sweethearts.

"The teachers told me that computers and satellite communication system were installed and maintained by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the MIT Media Lab.

"“Nick was a frequent visitor and one of the orphanage sponsors who arranged the weekend pajama parties in the city whenever foreign VIPs arrived,” a teacher told me....

"The “One Laptop per Child” project was initiated by the MIT Media Lab founder, who is the brother of former UN ambassador and intelligence official John Negroponte.

"The Zionist brothers have family origins in the Jewish community of Greece."

5. "A quick look at MIT Media Lab reveals some questionable characters at the helm...

"- Frank Moss, who was trained at the Technion Institute in Haifa, a center for the Israeli Defense Force’s cyberwarfare R andD projects. The Media Lab itself is heavily involved in military-related projects with the US Air Force, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, the Army Research Office and Google, which is a high-tech contractor in artificial intelligence for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) .

"- Joi Ito, who once ran a nightclub in Roppongi, Tokyo’s drug-peddling and prostitution district run by a yakuza boss whose interest lies in Caucasian models performing coprophilia and bondage, increasingly favorite video themes besides child porn among the American university technocrati.

"Since he never earned a higher degree, Ito’s main qualification is apparently his status as godson of Timothy Leary. For those who were/are too stoned to comprehend political reality, Leary began his drug experimentation as a psychologist for the MK-ULTRA mind-control program and became a proselytizer of hallucinogens under a CIA psy-op campaign to disable the antiwar movement."

6. "MIT Media Lab is yet another spin-off from the all-powerful MK-ULTRA and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).

"No wonder it’s been producing child porn and involved in overseas pedophilia. The One Laptop program is a clever vehicle to provide early sex education to children across impoverished Asia and Africa who have yet to reach pubescence."

7. "As in the campaign of character assassination that led to the downfall of Eliot Spitzer, the assault on Aaron Swartz is another example of a crusading American Jewish individual being persecuted, punished and likely executed by their Zionist “brethren”.

"Swartz’s death by hanging is a microcosm of the sort of brutal mafia enforcement within the Jewish “community”, which unfortunately has gone nearly unreported in the Zionist-controlled media.

8. "Swartz was a research fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, which is based at Harvard and in Israel.

"This much-needed program was organized by Lily Safra, the plucky spouse of a Syrian Jewish banker who died in a mysterious arson on his mansion in Monaco...

9. "Edmond Safra was a banker for the Aleppo Jewish community, which over the millennia has been renowned for scholarship and good relations with Muslim and Christian neighbors.

"The Aleppo synagogue... was the center of traditionalist Sephardic moral resistance to the secular, authoritarian and Eurocentric Zionists led by the Rothschild clan."

10. "The Zionist killing of dissenting Jews was a policy of the Haganah militia.

"The newborn Israeli state, under President Yitzak Ben-Zvi, a leader of the Rothschild-backed Haganah, ordered the extrajudicial execution of outspoken Dutch Jewish activist Jacob de Haan, who proposed that Jews should support a non-religious state of Palestine shared with Arabs, instead of endorsing the bigotry of a separatist entity...

"The fact that the ancient city of Aleppo is now being leveled to the ground is no fluke of history, it is the inevitable consequence of the systematic destruction of the Mideast by Zionist ambitions...

11. In Memory of Sean Parlaman

"Another young American, Sean Parlaman, who “fell” from a high-rise window in Pattaya, Thailand, in 2002, was the leading anti-pedophile activist of his generation...

"Parlaman started investigating child-trafficking across the Burma border.

"Along that militarized frontier, the Mossad and CIA under the cover of refugee aid programs have continuously smuggled in weapons and explosives, used for killing civilians in Myanmar, in exchange for opium and children.

"It is an injustice indeed that Sean did not live to see the 2009 police arrest of the politically connected second-generation Baptist missionary Robert Moss, aka Bobby Morse, on charges of sex with preteen tribal girls. At least, Parlaman is vindicated.

"The pedophiles have been able to abduct, abuse and sometimes murder children across Southeast Asia because of protection from U.S. embassies in the region.

12. "The unofficial but widely recognized dean of the criminalized diplomats is Ralph “Skip” Boyce, former ambassador to Jakarta and later to Bangkok.

"It was during his tenure in Thailand that Negroponte and Krisher set up shop in neighboring Cambodia.

"It was earlier during his years in Indonesia that the skeletal remains of more 50 boys were discovered inside a cave in Bali.

"Anti-pedophile activist call him Ralphie Boyz.

"This sorry excuse for an ambassador later left diplomatic service to head Boeing in Southeast Asia, a region known for kickbacks in military and civilian aircraft sales...."

Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly, is a science journalist based in Hong Kong.




and MIT website and Anon:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/13/ano...wartz-tribute/

Anonymous Appears To Have Hacked MIT Website, Leaves Swartz Tribute

Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, appears to have hacked MIT’s website and left a tribute message to the late Internet activist, Aaron Swartz. ”We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this temporary use of their websites,” writes a postscript to a memorial note posted by Anonymous, on a subdomain of the official MIT.edu website. “We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened, but call for all those feel heavy-hearted in their proximity to this awful loss to acknowledge instead the responsibility they have — that we all have — to build and safeguard a future that would make Aaron proud”.

Earlier this evening, MIT’s network went offline and there was notable evidence that Anonymous had caused the outage.

Swartz was set to stand trial next month for releasing millions of pay-walled academic papers from the popular JSTOR database. The case has set off a firestorm of online protest related to overzealous litigation and copyright policy and the President of MIT has called for a formal investigation of the accusations.

The hacked page calls for an investigation into the Swartz case, the reformation of copyright policy, and greater protections for a free Internet. The page also posted an open-information manifesto Swartz composed, “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto”.

For now, the link here is still live. Since it will likely be taken offline soon (if it was indeed a hacked page), we have posted the full message below in block quotes,

In Memoriam, Aaron Swartz, November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013, Requiescat in pace.

A brief message from Anonymous.

Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government’s prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron died fighting for — freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it — enabling the collective betterment of the world through the facilitation of sharing — an ideal that we should all support.

Moreover, the situation Aaron found himself in highlights the injustice of U.S. computer crime laws, particularly their punishment regimes, and the highly-questionable justice of pre-trial bargaining. Aaron’s act was undoubtedly political activism; it had tragic consequences.

Our wishes

We call for this tragedy to be a basis for reform of computer crime laws, and the overzealous prosecutors who use them.
We call for this tragedy to be a basis for reform of copyright and intellectual property law, returning it to the proper principles of common good to the many, rather than private gain to the few.
We call for this tragedy to be a basis for greater recognition of the oppression and injustices heaped daily by certain persons and institutions of authority upon anyone who dares to stand up and be counted for their beliefs, and for greater solidarity and mutual aid in response.
We call for this tragedy to be a basis for a renewed and unwavering commitment to a free and unfettered internet, spared from censorship with equality of access and franchise for all.
For in the end, we will not be judged according to what we give, but according to what we keep to ourselves.

Aaron, we will sorely miss your friendship, and your help in building a better world. May you read in peace.

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Who was Aaron Swartz? A hero in the SOPA/PIPA campaign, Reddit cofounder, RSS, Demand Progress, Avaaz, etc…:

Aaron Swartz’s funeral is on Tuesday. Here are details:

Remove United States District Attorney Carmen Ortiz from office for overreach in the case of #Aaron Swartz

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Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.

That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable.

“I agree,” many say, “but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it’s perfectly legal — there’s nothing we can do to stop them.” But there is something we can, something that’s already being done: we can fight back.

Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.

Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends.

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.

With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?

Aaron Swartz

July 2008, Eremo, Italy

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You were the best of us; may you yet bring out the best in us.

-Anonymous, Jan 13, 2013.

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(Postscript: We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this temporary use of their websites. We understand that it is a time of soul-searching for all those within this great institution as much — perhaps for some involved even more so — than it is for the greater internet community. We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened, but call for all those feel heavy-hearted in their proximity to this awful loss to acknowledge instead the responsibility they have — that we all have — to build and safeguard a future that would make Aaron proud, and honour the ideals and dedication that burnt so brightly within him by embodying them in thought and word and action. Original frontpage)