"... A prosecutor who does
not understand proportionality and who regularly uses the threat of unjust and
overreaching charges to extort plea bargains from defendants regardless of
their guilt is a danger to the life and liberty of anyone who might cross her
path."
Petition here.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
MA US Attorney Destroys Another Life
Carmen Ortiz, Aaron Swartz and Tarek Mehanna
"... It is not surprising that Eric Holder and Carmen Ortiz are
consistent in their overzealous prosecutions against individuals who are
engaged in political dissent: For Aaron Swartz, this dissent took the form of
challenging the electronic paywalls that prevented public access to work done
by scholars like myself, who will never see a penny from the tens of articles
that I have published. Mehanna’s speech at sentencing is worth reading; he is
clearly a politically aware young man. His dissent took the form of challenging
and criticizing the US government’s imperial war …"
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