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“Prosecutors destroy a life.” That could be a headline in every newspaper every day in a land where the answer to every problem (and many nonproblems) is police and prisons. When 26-year-old Internet prodigy and freedom of information activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11, the tragedy was the direct result of US attorneys deciding to throw criminal charges at him for violating a website’s “terms of services” while accessing publicly subsidized academic research.

A blogger has published once-classified FBI files that show how the agency tracked and collected information on internet activist Aaron Swartz.

Swartz, who killed himself in January aged 26, had previously requested his files and posted them on his blog, but some new documents and redactions are included in the files published by Firedoglake blogger Daniel Wright.

Internet freedom fighter, Aaron Swartz, commits suicide after government threatens him with a million dollar fine and up to 35 years in prison for downloading too many old journal articles.

An open letter from bunnie, author of Hacking the Xbox:

Dear Reader,
No Starch Press and I have decided to release this free ebook version of Hacking the Xbox in honor of Aaron Swartz. As you read this book, I hope that you’ll be reminded of how important freedom is to the hacking community and that you’ll be inclined to support the causes that Aaron believed in.

A petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets with its super laser. The petition on the White House website’s “We the People” page demands the Death Star project begin by 2016.

http://RevolutionNews.US — Marijuana Dispensary Operator Aaron Sandusky Gets 10 Years in Jail...
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SIGN Petition Pardon Aaron Sandusky for growing Medical Cannabis
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The Real News: Sandusky was convicted in October on federal charges of distributing marijuana, reported the Contra Costa Times.
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The White House removed a petition about the TSA airport screening procedures from the White House "We the People" website.

Essex County prosecutors said yesterday that they will confer with the states top federal prosecutor over the case of a Worcester man who was fatally injured in November at a police checkpoint in North Andover. Jonathan W. Blodgett, Essex district attorney, plans to discuss the case of 45-year-old Thomas Howe, who collapsed Nov. 25 after struggling with police from three different agencies on Route 114 in North Andover, with US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz.

Earlier this month, The Blaze reported on the White House’s new “We the People” tool, which allows people to create their own online petitions on any issue they choose.

If a petition garners 5,000 signatures within 30 days, the White House promises lawmakers will automatically review it and the Obama administration will issue an official response on the subject.

The site went live Thursday. The first petition to cross the 5,000 signature threshold? One advocating for marijuana legalization.