Vendetta

Remove United States District Attorney Carmen Ortiz from office for overreach in the case of Aaron Swartz.

Vendetta Against Aaron Swartz.

“The great ones almost always operate at the edge,”

With the Department of Justice unable to differentiate real criminals from overzealous bright kids, we are incarcerating, if not killing, our national future. The bar should be in the forefront of warning Congress, the news media and the public that the Department of Justice and the federal courts, in Boston and elsewhere, are out of control.

The Swartz suicide and the sick culture of the Justice Dept.

By Harvey A. Silverglate – Read The Full Story CLICK HERE

Aaron Swartz Unlikely To Face Jail Or Conviction... Until Feds Decided To 'Send A Message'

Things just keep looking worse and worse in the Carmen Ortiz/Stephen Heymann vendetta against Aaron Swartz. Now it's come out that state prosecutors, who were originally looking into the case had no interest in pursuing felony charges or prison time... until Carmen Ortiz and her team showed up. Instead, state prosecutors had focused on the initial charges: "breaking and entering in the daytime" which they expected "would be continued without a finding, with Swartz duly admonished and then returned to civil society to continue his pioneering electronic work in a less legally questionable manner." Instead, the report notes:

Tragedy intervened when Ortiz’s office took over the case to send “a message.”

By Mike Masnick - Read The Full Story CLICK HERE

Swartz Didn't Face Prison Until Feds Took Over Case,

The late Internet activist was facing a stern warning from local prosecutors. But then the U.S. Attorney's office, run by Carmen Ortiz, chose to make an example of Aaron Swartz, a new report says.

State prosecutors who investigated the late Aaron Swartz had planned to let him off with a stern warning, but federal prosecutor Carmen Ortiz took over and chose to make an example of the Internet activist, according to a report in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

By Declan McCullagh - Read The Full Story CLICK HERE