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I saw the video - MIT is being less than truthful
Authored by: celtic_hackr on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 05:12 PM EST
I saw the video for Aaron retrieving his laptop. The door was unlocked. In fact
he acted like he expected it to be unlocked.

But a point should be made here. This was a computer closet, and it was, for
sure, trespassing to put his laptop in there (but where are you going to put a
laptop and leave it for days on a College campus where it won't walk off on it's
own?). He would have been fine putting it anywhere that normal visitor or
visiting scholars normally hook up, except for the walking off part.

So the score:

1 count of (very understandable) trespass for Aaron
vs.
3 counts, or more, of violating Federal Laws for MIT, and complacency in the
murder of Aaron Swartz.

I call it murder because the prosecutor and MIT surely knew of Aaron's
historical suicidal tendencies. They exploited that in an attempt to get him to
submit against his will to blatantly false charges, knowing full well he might
just off himself instead and taking no precautions to prevent it.

It was intentional.
It was deliberate.
It was planned, and it was remorseless.

In my book, that meets the requirements for murder. But, heh, I'm no lawyer.

To knowingly and purposely push an unstable someone to commit suicide is just as
onerous as pulling the trigger on a gun. I have decades of experience in this
subject matter. I think about suicide on a nearly daily basis (it's gotten
better some years back). I have been suicidal for longer than most of you have
been alive. There is no cure. No treatment. You either tame the beast or succumb
to it. It is not something you can defeat. It's always there, a trigger, or a
timebomb, waiting to go off. Could I be pushed over the edge like Aaron. Yes.
Will I reveal what my trigger is? No.

I do not fear death. This is something you must understand with suicidal people.
We do not fear death. Death is a release. A doorway. A new beginning, or just an
end to pain and suffering.

It's living that's scary.

Until you can understand this simple concept you cannot understand what
motivates suicidal people.

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MIT's Role as Described in Aaron Swartz's October Motion to Suppress ~pj
Authored by: odysseus on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 05:21 AM EST
"I didn't text it because it's a tiff. And my wrists can't take a lot of
typing any more, after ten years of Groklaw."

PJ, there are a couple of crowd-sourced transcription platforms that could help,
such as Project Gutenberg uses for transcribing books from scans. They allow
for people to transcribe as little or as much as they have time for, and for
other trusted users to verify the transcriptions are correct before being used.

http://dproofreaders.sourceforge.net/
http://scripto.org/

Just a thought.

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