Anonymous Launches Operation Last Resort

And apparently they found some dirt in those files. Nice one.

 

Anonymous - Good on ya!

 

If they are legit, really wish they would go after sallie mae, if they want to do a favor for all the young adults of USA. Totally topple the system and records of that company.

 

What do you mean, if they're legit?

You just did a whole damn thread saying that Anonymous is obviously the FBI, lol

 

Even though I feel I certainly can do nothing regarding this, I am very grateful to know this...why, I don't know. I've known all along how terribly wrong and biased the system is. It is said knowledge is power. So, for what my opinion is worth, I'm glad you are getting this information out there.

It would be good if Anon could help Eddy somehow.

 

They should just do it instead of employing blackmail. If the justice department backs down, they lose credibility entirely. They will stand fast until the last brick topples over. This waiting game is either an indication that they are not as prepared as they claim or that their decision matrix can't reach parity or compromise. Sort of like congress. Wouldn't it be interesting to learn that even the radicals among us are having a hard time deciding to pull the trigger? We all know it's a huge house of cards and we're all afraid to see it topple.

Maybe it is long overdue and they need to just pull the trigger instead of playing coy games with political demons. Many American lives have been ruined by the "justice" department. Many have a big F on their record that renders them into a fixed sub-class forever. America does NOT forgive. Your debt is never paid.
Jal

 

FREE EDDY LEPP

 

Does anyone have the schedule when A's is gonna hit the NRA?
They took down Monsanto's trolls and Gun Inc is far more obnoxious.

Senator Kerry’s most important Senate appearance was in 1971
Court Rejects Bid To Have Marijuana Reclassified
GOP 'Acomplishments'
Fox Fakes News - Union 'Violence' Staged
They want to ██████ the Internet
The Corporate Muzzle
Freedom of the Press Foundation

Meet the New Boss...



C.C.A. Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students in Arizona
Koch-Owned Georgia-Pacific Environmental Crimes
Monsanto Sucks, I approve this message...
Nixon's Treason
Busht: Timeline of Treason

Same as the Old Boss...
We won't get fooled again?



Where are all of the Taxbaggers and Norquest?
Shame on the Drug Worrier Profiteers
Weed Beat the Recession in Denver vs 60,000 Dead Mexicans
Chevron’s SF Bay oil refinery fire v Hemp
Poor Community Still Sickened by Chevron Refinery Fire
Chevron’s Dirty Legacy Felt from Brazil to the Bay Area
Navy Ship Crashes Into Oil Tanker
Chevron subpoenas non-profit for defending the Rainforest

 

Probably never

 

Heston died, NRA's Mandatory Minimum Didn't
Their campaign for longer sentences...

C.C.A. Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students in Arizona
The NRA version of selling more guns, to CCA/Koch Rentacops, in schools, groceries, portajohns? Tax paid. Slave Labor at the NRA's Mandatory Minimum profits, in a Kochroach hotel housing mostly non violent drug offenders. tsk tsk tsk...

Koch Roaches A.L.E.C. Drug Detention Centers

Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches... k~

Slavery: Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA!
Which western country never fully abolished slavery?

SLAVERY IS STILL LEGAL in the USA. Contrary to what we may learn in school, the American Civil War did not see the complete abolition of slavery in 1865. The 13th Amendment to their constitution reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime..."

Great numbers of newly freed blacks were quickly 'convicted' and forced to work without pay in state prisons. For those unfortunates all that happened was that ownership of slaves transferred from private parties to the state. Today, with the advent of private, profit-making prisons and prison factories slavery still exists and is moving back to the private sector.

Private Prisons and Prison Labor google

Slave Labor, Prison Privatization, Prison Industry
ALEC Conservatives push this agenda nationwide!
Privatize, privatize, privatization of anything owned or controlled by the public or taxpayers is again being applied by Conservatives from coast to coast. Sadly through the manipulations of ALEC and their thousands of legislative and corporate members, this agenda that began way back in the 80's is once again being used to usurp more public assets. These assets include publicly built prisons, work-release centers, medical care facilities, schools and a myriad assortment of other buildings, programs and initiatives that now exists due to public funding.

The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?
Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance.

Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations
Great numbers of newly freed blacks were quickly 'convicted' and forced to work without pay in state prisons. For those unfortunates all that happened was that ownership of slaves transferred from private parties to the state. Today, with the advent of private, profit-making prisons and prison factories slavery still exists and is moving back to the private sector.

Prejedice Marujuana and the Jim Crow Laws
Bigotry and Aparteid
Self Perpetuating Lies
A Roundup of Hearsts Hysterical Headlines

UNICOR operates 90 prison factories and is rapidly expanding. San Quentin inmates enter computer data for the Bank of America. Prisoners in New Mexico take hotel reservations by phone. Hawaiian convicts pack golf balls and at Folsom they manufacture stainless steel vats for beer brewers. The list goes on and on.

Thank you Miss Rosa
The Racist Ganjawar
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and MMJ Prohibition

"One may well ask: How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others? The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
- Martin Luther King, Jr

"Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue...that we couldn't resist it."
- John Ehrlichman,
White House counsel to President Nixon
on the rationale of the War on Drugs.

Quote: "[Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks" Haldeman, his Chief of Staff wrote, "The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."

And then he came up with the War On Drugs and the Southern Strategy.

Nixon's Drug War
Re-Inventing Jim Crow, Targeting The Counter Culture
JIM CROW 2012
Using the drug war to keep blacks from voting

Businesses all over the USA are jumping at the chance to hire prisoners. And why wouldn't any greedy boss? They can hire a workforce from the prison for a fraction of what they would have to pay their regular workers. And there is no unemployment insurance to pay, no health benefits, no sick pay and no holidays. It is estimated that total US prison sales will reach $8.9 billion by 1999.

Smackdown: ACLU Calls Out Private Prison Giant
The American Civil Liberties Union has invited the leader of the nations largest private prison enterprise, Corrections Corporation of America, to a public debate on the merits of prison privatization. ... of the ACLU regarding for-profit incarceration.

Debt To Society The real price of prisons
There are more people behind bars in the United States today than ever before.
Since 1980, the inmate population has more than quadrupled to two million --
An unprecedented explosion that is incurring unprecedented costs to all Americans.

Making The Walls Transparent

The Ganjawar Comes to the The Rez
The cannabis prohibition laws illustrate again this institutional intolerance of racial minorities and show how prejudice is concealed behind rhetoric and laws which seem to have an entirely different purpose.

Potential Prohibition Profits Outweigh Citizens Benefits
Religious drug treatment in Texas
'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'

Kochroach & Aleech
Today many have had their eyes opened regarding the huge profits made off of what is commonly called the "Prison Industrial Complex." Suddenly awareness has turned from disbelief to anger as taxpayers realize the screwing private prison companies, their lobbyists and elected Legislators have been giving them for more than three decades now.

“More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?”
—Fred Oerther, M.D.,
Portland Oregon, September, 1986.

Cops Against the Drug War

Filling statistics with ditchweed and
Koch private prisons with growers.
Hemp Products...Schedule#1 Narcotics
Saving the kids from food, fuel and fiiber...

 

Sigh.

Typical anonymous:

Totally awesome premise and rightious work, and a press release that almost matches....

But that I could have seriously revised the grammar and spelling in, when I was 12 years old.

They spend ALL THAT TIME doing ALL THAT SHIT that could send them to prison FOR EVER, and don't give their press release a finial proof-read.

 

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"The brilliant mind, righteous heart of Aaron Swartz will be missed"
...progressive activist, founder of Demand Progress
Chris Hayes remembers Aaron Swartz, the hacker, programmer, writer and activist, who took his own life in his home this week. Swartz, who suffered from depression, was found Friday. He was facing a trial on federal hacking charges ...

You should also know that at the time of his death Aaron was being prosecuted by the federal government and threatened with up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines for the crime of — and I’m not exaggerating here — downloading too many free articles from the online database of scholarly work JSTOR.

In a statement about his death Aaron’s family and partner wrote:

“Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death.”

The case of Aaron Swartz was the subject of a few segments with the panel on today's Up with Chris Hayes. The discussion went beyond the immediate scope of the Swartz case to points about the governments handling of internet access and copyrights in court cases and in legislation that has been proposed in the past such as SOPA.

Transcript: Thom Hartmann talks to Aaron Swartz about the Arkansas primary runoff and progressives vs. conservadems. 07 Jun '10.
This afternoon Thom played a clip from the radio show of a conversation he had with Aaron Swartz on an earlier show. Wow, I heard that show, and at least one or two others when he called in or was a guest. I did not remember those until Thom played the tape ... I recognized Aaron's voice.

Aaron Swartz - Thom Hartmann - SISPA - YouTube
Published on Apr 30, 2012

Despite a massive public outcry that defeated SOPA and PIPA, a new, similar bill is being proposed called SISPA. Aaron Swartz joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about the new bill. Instead of the entertainment industry, this new bill comes from the pentagon. The bill allows the government to not only censor the internet, but spy on the internet.

1-12-13

Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS,
Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide
“Aaron built surprising new things that changed the flow of information around the world,” said Susan Crawford, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law in New York who served in the Obama administration as a technology adviser. She called Mr. Swartz “a complicated prodigy” and said “graybeards approached him with awe.”

Internet prodigy, activist Aaron Swartz commits suicide
The end of this article from CNN contains some of Aaron's writings about depression:

"There is a moment, immediately before life becomes no longer worth living, when the world appears to slow down and all its myriad details suddenly become brightly, achingly apparent," he wrote in a 2007 post titled "A Moment Before Dying."

Remembering Aaron Swartz
Rick Perlstein of The Nation magazine writes about the loss of his friend.

1/13/13

Aaron Swartz obituary

Remember Aaron Swartz
Official obituary and funeral notice

POSTSCRIPT: AARON SWARTZ (1986-2013)

Aaron Swartz’ Alleged Victim
‘Regretted’ Being Drawn Into Hacking Case

Aaron Swartz’ partner:
‘This should be a wakeup call to our country’
The legacy of Aaron Swartz
Why hackers freak out those in power

from Slate.com:
JSTOR made its peace with Swartz in June 2011 and just last week expanded its online Register & Read program, making more information available for free. But prosecutors pushed on for decades of prison time for the 26-year-old activist—adding nine new felony charges in September and scheduling his trial for April 1. Now he is dead, but the ideas he cared about aren't.

Will Aaron Swartz’s Suicide Make the Open-Access Movement Mainstream?

The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz

1/14/13

Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz's suicide

Two segments on the Democracy Now show about Aaron Swartz:

"An Incredible Soul": Larry Lessig Remembers Aaron Swartz After Cyberactivist’s Suicide Before Trial; Parents Blame Prosecutor

Today we remember the pioneering computer programmer and cyber activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life Friday at the age of 26. As a teenager, Swartz helped develop RSS, revolutionizing how people use the Internet, going on to co-own Reddit, now one of the world’s most popular sites. He was also a key architect of Creative Commons and an organizer of the grassroots movement to defeat the controversial House Internet censorship bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and the Senate bill, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Swartz hanged himself just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for sneaking into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and downloading millions of articles provided by the subscription-based academic research service JSTOR. We hear Swartz in his own words and speak to Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, a longtime mentor and friend. "There are a thousand things we could have done, a thousand things we could have done, and we have to do, because Aaron Swartz is now an icon, an ideal," Lessig says. "He is what we will be fighting for, all of us, for the rest of our lives." Lessig also echoes the claims of Swartz’s parents that decisions made by prosecutors and MIT contributed to his death, saying: "This was somebody who was pushed to the edge by what I think of as a kind of bullying by our government." [includes rush transcript]

Freedom to Connect: Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)
on Victory to Save Open Internet, Fight Online Censors

Cyber activist and computer programmer Aaron Swartz took his life on Friday at the age of 26. We air an address of Swartz’s from last May where he speaks about the battle to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA — a campaign he helped lead. "[SOPA] will have yet another name, and maybe a different excuse, and probably do its damage in a different way. But make no mistake: The enemies of the freedom to connect have not disappeared," Swartz said. "Next time they might just win. Let’s not let that happen." [includes rush transcript]

Aaron Swartz’s Suicide Prompts MIT Soul-Searching

MIT, one of the nation’s most prominent and respected universities, has come under criticism for its handling of the Swartz affair. In July 2011, JSTOR said it would drop any civil claims against Swartz. According to Lawrence Lessig, who runs Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, where Swartz was a fellow in 2011, MIT fell short by not following JSTOR’s lead

Aaron Swartz Faced A More Severe Prison Term
Than Killers, Slave Dealers And Bank Robbers

If Swartz had lived to be convicted of the charges against him, he faced 50 years or more in a federal prison.

To put these charges in perspective, here are ten examples of federal crimes that carry lesser prison sentences than Swartz’ alleged crime of downloading academic articles in an effort to make knowledge widely available to the public:

- Manslaughter
- Bank Robbery
- Selling Child Pornography
- Knowingly Spreading AIDS
- Selling Slaves
- Genocidal Eugenics
- Helping al-Qaeda Develop A Nuclear Weapon
- Violence At International Airports
- Threatening The President
- Assaulting A Supreme Court Justice

Internet trailblazer and activist Aaron Swartz is dead at age 26

Aaron Swartz' Death Fuels MIT Probe,
White House Petition to Oust Prosecutor
"It pains me to think that MIT played any role in a series of events that have ended in tragedy," MIT President L. Rafael Reif said in a statement. "Now is a time for everyone involved to reflect on their actions, and that includes all of us at MIT."

1/15/13

The Death of Aaron Swartz

Internet Activist Aaron Swartz’
Prosecutor Linked To Another Hacker’s Death

Why the Net grieves Aaron Swartz
Swartz faced tough U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and her assistant Stephen Heymann, who rejected any deal that did not involve a prison sentence—which may have helped drive the cyber programmer to despair.

Aaron Swartz’s Unbending Prosecutors Insisted on Prison Time

With his contributions to RSS coding and the Web application framework, Swartz made some of today's more expansive Internet possible.

But what Swartz also helped create was a philosophy of the Internet, one that remains the subject of great controversy almost 20 years into its life: the libertarian idea that information wants to be free.

How Aaron Swartz helped build the Internet

1/16/13

Aaron Swartz’s Suicide Triggers Response from Top U.S. Lawmakers

As Swartz’s friends were grieving in Chicago, several Capitol Hill lawmakers expressed sadness, shock and confusion over his death. One prominent U.S. lawmaker, Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), said she would introduce reforms to change the federal law at the heart of the case.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said he has opened an investigation of the Justice Department’s case against Aaron Swartz, according to HuffPost. “I’m not condoning his hacking, but he’s certainly someone who worked very hard,” Issa told the news website.

“Had he been a journalist and taken that same material that he gained from MIT, he would have been praised for it. It would have been like the Pentagon Papers.” (Not exactly: The Pentagon Papers were classified federal government documents. Swartz was accused of accessing scholarly articles on a university network.)

Demand Progress: Aaron

A handful of the myriad tributes to Aaron:

Cory Doctorow

Glenn Greenwald

Lawrence Lessig

Quinn Norton

“In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us”. Thich Nhat Hanh

1/26/13

Anonymous targets the federal agency responsible for sentencing guidelines, in retaliation for the prosecution which drove Aaron Swartz to suicide.

Anonymous takes down US Sentencing Commission website

Anonymous Takes Over Sentencing Commission Website

from the ABC news link below:
Anonymous Hijacks Federal Website, Threatens DOJ Document Dump

Anonymous says Swartz was “killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win — a twisted and distorted perversion of justice — a game where the only winning move was not to play.”

“There must be a return to proportionality of punishment with respect to actual harm caused,” it reads, also mentioning recent arrests of Anonymous associates by the FBI.

Anonymous threatens Justice Department over hacktivist death

 

I wish they'd do far more than just threaten. Come on, grow a pair and get it done like a man- hit'em fast and hit'em hard. They have murdered too many people for no just cause.

 

I was wondering how many of thos Anonymous videos on youtube are actually real... Anyone could put the mask on and post it on there...

 

What do you mean, "real"?

Who do you think is "anonymous", anyways?

That's right, anybody who puts a mask on.

It's not a group, it's a choice to act anonymously. There's a bit of culture that's evolved around it, but anybody who puts on a mask is anonymous. If your grandmother puts on a mask and protests cuts to social security, she's anonymous. We could even say she's part of the "social sec" portion of the collective

It's just a collective identity that can be used as needed. If you're pissed off about something and you could be targeted for your views, you can be anonymous.

You sound like those people bitching about how OWS didn't/doesn't have a clear cut goal or leadership

It's really awesome that the justice department has managed to "infiltrate" anonymous :rofl: I can infiltrate them too, all you do is not give your name.

 

An interesting thought that Anonymous is the FBI. We can look back to Orwell for an example of the counter-movement actually being a subsidiarity of the primary regime. What better way to discover radicals and dissidents than to wave the flag of.

That said as being a possibility... Not belief.

The Juggernaut is careening towards a doom we can only imagine at this point. All talk of change and hope is past. I.M.H.O. We can only hang on for the ride and try to jump off at the last second onto solid ground.