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In reply to the discussion: Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)10. They don't say WHY the feds took over the case.
Somehow the Secret Service became involved. Whether that was due to MIT's insistence on making an example of Swartz or something that occurred simply because of the 'snowball' effect that MIT mentioned, neither factor means that Ortiz went out of her way for 'political ambitions'.
She had nothing to gain by offering a 4-6 month plea bargain. How would this help her politically? It would have been a minor case had Swartz not killed himself.
And if Swartz did, indeed, physically wire a laptop into the JSTOR system, that sounds more along the lines of 'breaking and entering' than 'information needs to be free'.
Swartz is more responsible for his suicide than anyone else.
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Carmen Ortiz can kiss any political career in Massachusetts goodbye...
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#2
Try debating this guy, and a few other, on the related subject of Julian Assange,
1monster
Jan 2013
#38
Oh, I get it! Wrecking a person's life beyond proportionality is acceptable for politics!
backscatter712
Jan 2013
#15
He was offered a 4-6 month plea bargain that probably would have resulted in probation.
randome
Jan 2013
#16
No, the minimum the feds were thinking of offering was 4-6 months of hard time.
backscatter712
Jan 2013
#17
It's common practice to 'bargain' for closure of a case by threatening more time.
randome
Jan 2013
#18
They were not "doing their jobs", they were engaging in political repression.
backscatter712
Jan 2013
#20
Swartz turned down a plea bargain offering of a six month sentence in a low security facility; then
struggle4progress
Jan 2013
#24
Zimmerman in Florida,Cops that beat Rodney King, Cops on Danzinger Bridge in New Orleans,also
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#28
Not surprised here, but I'm not infatuated with my federal government either.
Puzzledtraveller
Jan 2013
#39