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U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz

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Re: U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz

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Post by jacoblyles »

sophacles wrote: post #128
jacoblyles wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's repost tptacek's comments, to see how partisan they are: >"Expect to see lots of superficial genuflection from Republicans towards the Swartz case; the GOP is in a constant low-grade conflict with the Democratic DoJ." Any show of support of the GOP for Aaron Swartz is "superficial genuflection" driven by partisan conflict. Doubtless, Democratic support would be considered genuine. >"Here, let me put it this way…

What's reasonable to me is: not putting any politician on a pedestal. They all suck for a lot of reasons. Unfortunately, you see it on web forums all the time that people have no medium or long term memories: basically they see some politician agreeing with them on some topic and there is much raving about how awesome that person is. Two weeks later, the same politician is against the prevalent view on some other top…

I'm an issues guy, not a party guy. When a politician does something good, I like that. Even if I don't normally agree with them, that means I have the opportunity to build a larger, more effective coalition towards my goal.

For you and tptacek, when a politician does something good, that's a bad thing because they are trying to dupe us. I'm not a Chomskyite, so I can't twist my brain in those kind of knots.

Re: U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz

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Post by jacoblyles »

michael_nielsen wrote: post #76
jacoblyles wrote: post #71

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Well I learned something from this discussion. Advocacy for Open Access is a new side project of mine, and now I know that Cornyn will be a strong ally.

It's well worth looking at the list of sponsors at the FRPAA Wikipedia link. Heck, I'll cut and paste -- it's a long list, but these people deserve recognition: Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman In the House, Representatives Michael Doyle, Frederick Boucher, Michael Capuano, Jerry Costello, Bill Foster, Barney Frank, Gregg Harper, Paul Hodes, Tim Holden, Dennis Kucinich, Rick Larsen, Zoe Lofgren, Stephen Lynch,…

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Re: U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz

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Post by jhancock »

TheAmazingIdiot wrote: post #116
jacoblyles wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's repost tptacek's comments, to see how partisan they are: >"Expect to see lots of superficial genuflection from Republicans towards the Swartz case; the GOP is in a constant low-grade conflict with the Democratic DoJ." Any show of support of the GOP for Aaron Swartz is "superficial genuflection" driven by partisan conflict. Doubtless, Democratic support would be considered genuine. >"Here, let me put it this way…

Tptacek is pretty much a nutjob. He was going on and on against 1st sale doctrine about reimportation, how is it evil and such. He also despises republicans completely, given this thread alone. I'd set equal the anger in Tptacek to the craziness in sparrowos.

Your post is very rude. I don't always agree with 'tptacek or anyone else, even some of my own past comments. However, I have seen enough of his comments to know I'd be happy to have a beer with the man. If Thomas is a nutjob in your mind and sparrows are crazy, I can't begin to imagine how you might describe some of my perspectives.

It would be lovely if HN could be a place where people could express themselves civilly and not be attacked.

Re: U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz

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Post by gonzo »

pyre wrote: post #120
otisfunkmeyer wrote: post #118

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This is worth watching so I will break etiquette to bring more attention to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vcB7uCqdFk

"kept Texas in power, made lesser states squirm" Seriously?

it's a Texas thing, you wouldn't understand.

Re: U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz

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Post by darkarmani »

miked wrote: post #28
tptacek wrote: post #3

This is the same hyperpartisan Senator who was at the forefront of the effort to deny habeas rights to Guantanamo inmates; he was also involved in the Bush wiretapping scandal. Expect to see lots of superficial genuflection from Republicans towards the Swartz case; the GOP is in a constant low-grade conflict with the Democratic DoJ. Here, let me put it this way: what do you honestly think Aaron Swartz would think abo…

This is the same hyperpartisan Senator who was at the forefront of the effort to deny habeas rights to Guantanamo inmates. The Entitled Party had complete control of the House and a 60 senator supermajority in the Senate for the first year of Obama's presidency, not to mention near complete control of the "news" media, Hollywood, television, the arts, the unions, etc, etc. If they wanted to introduce habeas rights fo…

> near complete control of the "news" media...State-run news media

What are you talking about?

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Post by pmorici »

tptacek wrote: post #3

This is the same hyperpartisan Senator who was at the forefront of the effort to deny habeas rights to Guantanamo inmates; he was also involved in the Bush wiretapping scandal. Expect to see lots of superficial genuflection from Republicans towards the Swartz case; the GOP is in a constant low-grade conflict with the Democratic DoJ. Here, let me put it this way: what do you honestly think Aaron Swartz would think abo…

Does it matter? Your point of view seems to be that unless a politician shares your every point of view then you can't agree with them on any issue. Seems like a good way to never accomplish anything.

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Post by caseysoftware »

SilasX wrote: post #110
tptacek wrote: post #70

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John Cornyn and science get along great, as long as the science doesn't involve stem cell research (which he has casted Senate votes to ban) or climate change.

Ban = not apply federal funds toward, right?

That would be correct.. And in related news, the Feds have banned me from cleaning the bathroom at home. Woot.

Re: U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz

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Post by kh1411 »

I would like them to question her why after 2 yrs of holding this over Aaron's head, depleting his finances, that they didn't think a plea deal for a misdemeanor instead of felony counts would be sufficient deterrent? When I read below Fri. Jan18th, I was incensed even more at how they treated Aaron:

"Last Friday, on the same day that Swartz hanged himself in his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment, prosecutors from Ortiz’s office stood in a Boston courtroom and allowed a former state representative named ­Stephen “Stat” Smith to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for rigging absentee ballots in three elections. Swartz’s lawyers asked for the same consideration, that Swartz be allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. Prosecutors refused.

So, given that Ortiz will not explain herself, we’ll just have to presume she believes that illegally manipulating the outcome of elections, which are the essence of our democracy, is less serious an ­offense than downloading an online archive of obscure academic articles." (Excerpt fm article by Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe). http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/18/taking-heat/L1rfSF47...

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