The Strange Case of Barrett Brown

http://www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett-brown#axzz2WiQDupVh

by guelo • 13 years ago

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e3pi• 13 years ago

"...While the media and much of the world have been understandably outraged by the revelation of the NSA’s spying programs, Barrett Brown’s work was pointing to a much deeper problem. It isn’t the sort of problem that can be fixed by trying to tweak a few laws or by removing a few prosecutors. The problem is not with bad laws or bad prosecutors. What the case of Barrett Brown has exposed is that we confronting a different problem altogether. It is a systemic problem. It is the failure of the rule of law.

Journalist Michael Hastings, 33, died in a car crash yesterday......

......what is this doing here?

guelo• 13 years ago

the journalist was obviously trying to say something

piratebroadcast• 13 years ago

I know a girl on twitter who is always tweeting about this guy. She claims to know him and take calls from him often (from jail). She is fucking crazy and kind of a druggie herself. If you want to be a technology / information activist, have your shit straight, kids. No crazy heroin shit.

The Strange Case of Barrett Brown

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