"... 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 …"
