On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:02:26 -0500, Jeffrey Walton said: >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:34 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck >> > >> > Above link to remove this prosecutor needs to have signatures by >> > February 11. >> Its unfortunate Schwartz committed suicide over the incident. > > From the fine article: > > "On his blog, Swartz had written of his history of depression." > > Given that, and the fact that the article doesn't mention a suicide note > stating Aaron's reasons, it's not entirely clear that he in fact committed > suicide over the incident. It may have been one factor out of many. Perhaps. In the absence of a note, all we have to go on is the family and girlfriends experience with his personality: "On Saturday, his family and girlfriend called his death "the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach" and blamed decisions by the Massachusetts U.S. attorney's office and MIT for contributing to his death."
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