Swartz suicide being blamed on federal prosecutors

Superfreak said:
true... however it is quite sad that the parents are trying to blame the prosecutor for it. By his own words, he had suffered from depression for years and had voiced his thoughts of suicide as early as 2007. If that is the case, then his friends and parents should look inward to reflect on how they may better handle a future situation like that rather than try to blame someone else.
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Sorry, didn't make myself clear, the suicide of the young man is most unfortunate, as are most suicides when family membrs aren't watching signs and are in denial. I do not agree with the family's actions, their actions are most unfortunate. They feel guilt.
 
Rana said:
Sorry, didn't make myself clear, the suicide of the young man is most unfortunate, as are most suicides when family membrs aren't watching signs and are in denial. I do not agree with the family's actions, their actions are most unfortunate. They feel guilt.
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I understood you, which is what my 'true' portion was in response to. I was just adding on other thoughts. Always unfortunate when someone is so depressed that they take their life.
 
Superfreak said:
What we know...

1) He stole academic files and intended to publish them without the authors permission
2) He was fighting depression for years
3) He had talked of his thoughts of suicide before

Yet somehow his death is the fault of the prosecutor? His parents need a reality check.
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His parents are dumbass liberals.
They have to apportion blame!

I blame Bush!
 
Reddit proles deserve death. I would be sad if Zuckerburg or Gates offed themselves. Jobs' cancer was sad, and I hate Macs.
 
DOJ Admits It Had To Put Aaron Swartz In Jail To Save Face Over The Arrest

As the Congressional investigation into the DOJ's prosecution of Aaron Swartz has continued, apparently a DOJ representative has admitted that part of the reason it insisted on having Swartz plead guilty to a felony and go to jail, no matter what, was that it feared the public backlash for the original arrest if they couldn't then show a felony conviction and jailtime. According to a Huffington Post article, quoting various sources:

Some congressional staffers left the briefing with the impression that prosecutors believed they needed to convict Swartz of a felony that would put him in jail for a short sentence in order to justify bringing the charges in the first place, according to two aides with knowledge of the briefing.​
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So, in order to 'save face' at a fucked up and wrongful arrest of this guy from the start, the DOJ used everything it had to force an admittance of guilt from someone who didn't commit a crime.
 
yup. fuck the DOJ and our thug government.

There was a really good piece (rather long) that I read about this entire incident, I think it was in wired. The whole incident is heartbreaking and enraging. Schwartz's lawyer had basically been feeling better and better about their case, they had awesome witnesses lined up, there were some errors on the prosecution side that would have blown the whole thing wide open. His lawyer was actually running down his law office hall to make a call to aaron to let him know all the good news and that's when he found out he had killed himself.
 
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