just uh... uh...
some thoughts here on a ranch for its i wanted to share this with you
uh... personal here's a uh... a clip from our program
of erin schwartz you get a sense of uh... flute who this guy is
you're listed may remember stubborn paper where these bill that would allow
the government center web plates on the internet
and they were pushed by the entertainment industry especially by
hollywood
in order to allow them to shut down tight fit had copyrighted music and
movies and you know who rode put off they wanted to shut down
and so that was family defeated thanks to an enormous prior people all over the
internet and progressive activists
and now were seeing a similar kind of bill but not from hollywood but this
time it's from the pentagon an incident just letting the government sent to the
internet
the idea behind the building is to allow the government to spy on the internet as
well so basically
the military will be given control over key portions of the internet will be
allowed to access
all sorts of personal private information without going to the normal
privacy safeguards
and millions like him talking like that
when the profiteers in hollywood in corporate america trader walton censor
the internet last year was so open piper
activist his spark to fight back against the assault on the free and open web
inherent schwartz was there
internet-related earn activist who had already contributed such things to the
web is an early version of the are assessed fee and read it
stood up and joined the vanguard of this movement he co-founded the organization
demand progress which was instrumental in leading the largest online protest in
the history of the internet
again so clinton piper
thanks to this effort on january eighteenth twenty twelve tens of
thousands of websites blacked out
and all the release open bible were defeated by this online online
grassroots activism
today that same internet is blacked out with remembrances and obituaries aaron
swartz
who took his life over the weekend
and each of those remembrances aaron has described as a spark that made things
happen
and for the rest of us who still believe is erin did
in a free and open internet and a compassionate and just nation
a message he just often eat coffin espoused are on our show
we can only hope
eva rides the same sort of sparking death that he did in life
he was never afraid to talk about the depression he battled bosses life
often getting eloquent and deeply personal insight into how difficult it
is a fight that disease
ultimately aaron lost his battle with depression just like so many other
americans who never received the help they need in a nation that doesn't
consider health care especially mental health care a basic human right
but the depression alone didn't kill aaron
estate released over the weekend aaron's family placed the blame on our
department of justice which was prosecuting aaron for an incident that
happened back on the campus unalloyed t back in two thousand eleven
aaron snuck into a utility closet analogies campus
plugging computer data network
and again downloading millions of academic journals that were stored
behind a it wall belonging to the online database
j store
alan likely knew that this was illegal
although the expert witness for aaron's defense alex temos argues that aaron's
actions may not have been criminal
after all
regardless aaron was an activist who is willing to challenge the status quo
corporate welfare copyright laws
that restrict the free flow of information from academic journals to
mood music to movies
on the internet
is willing to blur the lines of legality in that effort
in fact there i was active in spirit thomas jefferson who himself
was not too keen on the idea of heavy handed patents on ideas and intellectual
properties
as jefferson wrote an eighteen thirteen quote
that ideally should spread freely from one room to another over the globe for
the moral in neutral instruction of man and improvement of his condition
seems to have been the killing and benevolent league designed by nature
when she made them like fire
expanse of overall space without lessening their density at any point
and like the area which we breathe move and have our physical being
incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation
unquote
jefferson then conclude inventions then cannot in nature
the subject of property
society may get an exclusive right to the profits arising from them as an
encouragement
two men to pursue ideas which may produce utility
but this may or may not be done according to the will inconvenience the
society without claim or complaint from anybody
and of court
given the activism we've seen on the internet over the last few years one
could conclude
that justice jefferson descr
patenting copyright laws should be changed
according to the will inconvenience to the society
took which at jefferson
this is one of aaron's pursuits
sa to justify aaron's crime but instead to put it in some much-needed context
their gray-haired lawmakers in corporate suits writing laws that no longer makes
sense
given out of ass majority this new generation actually uses the internet
and arguably were nearing the tipping point
which this disconnect will be on
it's not explain why the department of justice reacted aaron's m_i_t_ antics in
the way to do
rather than see ground in this upcoming struggle
the powers that be decided to squash the struggle from the get go
by making an example of karen
despite it being a victimless crime in jstor itself settle in the matter with
aaron
they partner justice through the booking
he was charged with multiple crimes and face the possibility of serving decades
in prison
a harsher punishment than most killers bank robbers child pornographers and
terrorist sympathizers get
secret service even involved itself dinner
at the urging the u_s_ attorney for the massachusetts district
carmen ortiz
and was looking at the very real possibility spending much of the rest of
his life in prison
as aaron's family said in a statement his death was the result of quote an
exceptionally harsh array of charges carrying potentially over thirty years
in prison
to punish an alleged crime they had no victims unquote
aaron was an activist not a murderer
the punishment for his crime should have better if should have reflected that
reality but it didn't
inspec instead aaron was dogs to death
by overzealous justice department the targets activists in whistleblowers with
all its fury
alternate a blind eye to actual criminals fees and murderers
on wall street in corporate america
this is the same sort of prosecutorial overreach we're now getting used to
any ination that more more resembles a police state
it's a nation or soldiers like bradley many whistleblowers like john character
politicians like former alabama governor don siegel man who dared to take on karl
rove and medical marijuana growers receive the full brought to the american
justice system and suffer dearly for their crimes or non crimes
but at the same time banks juices still billions
and properties that kids are responsible for the death of their employees up well
rates and mine shafts they never see a day in jail
this is a split up system
we need do something about
hopeful
carriage horses life
and death
will be a waking moment balls