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The Strange Case of Barrett Brown (thenation.com)
9 points by guelo on June 22, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


I know a girl on twitter who is always tweeting about this guy. She claims to know him and take calls from him often (from jail). She is fucking crazy and kind of a druggie herself. If you want to be a technology / information activist, have your shit straight, kids. No crazy heroin shit.


"...While the media and much of the world have been understandably outraged by the revelation of the NSA’s spying programs, Barrett Brown’s work was pointing to a much deeper problem. It isn’t the sort of problem that can be fixed by trying to tweak a few laws or by removing a few prosecutors. The problem is not with bad laws or bad prosecutors. What the case of Barrett Brown has exposed is that we confronting a different problem altogether. It is a systemic problem. It is the failure of the rule of law.

>Journalist Michael Hastings, 33, died in a car crash yesterday......

......what is this doing here?


the journalist was obviously trying to say something




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