Re:Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor Reaches Goal
by marshray on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @12:53AM
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No mob is trying to "end the career" of some mid-level public servant for whimsical reasons.
The United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts is not someone just "doing their job", it is a very high-level position appointed to serve the public interest. What people want is to prevent this person from abusing the power entrusted in them any further.
Oh look, just last week Oritz declined to run for Governor. http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/01/...
But this particular prosecutor was just a bully, right? Who had it out for Aaron out of personal hate, perhaps the Illuminati are involved also?
The only other reasoning is she was just doing her job and prosecuting a man who broke the actual law, and showed traits of an activist who could be a repeat offender, and was trying to deter him from getting into more serious trouble in the future.
A suspended sentence and a felony doesn't seem too bad if she was deterring him from something that could see him in jail 10 years with a plea bargain.