Is it any wonder that the ODOJ is deadly determined to threaten Whistle Blowers, such as Bradley Manning, and brilliant internet activists, such as Aaron Swartz, with decades to life sentence length prison terms for either or both exposing chicanery and crimes and keeping our access to information open via the internet?

No, it’s not a gag.

This clear attempt to manage perception did not admit how complicit, cooperative or involved MIT had been in the government’s prosecution. And, essentially, what the MIT president appears to be requesting is a cost-benefit analysis to show that MIT did not err and bears no responsibility for Swartz’s death.

That is likely all correct. But I’m interested to know, Kevin, what you make of what Lawrence Lessig said this morning on Democracy Now about Prof. Hal Abelson being “the best person in the world” to conduct the assessment or investigation or whatever it is that they are calling it.

If the charge of “aiding the enemy” is dumped, then wouldn’t the sentence, if any, be greatly reduced?

Try that link. If it doesn’t open or is dark, click the link beside it with the red camera picture. Atty. David Coombs discusses US v Bradley Manning

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Attorney-for-Alleged-WikiLeaks-Source-Discusses-Case/10737436204-1/

This link is working live right now:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Attorney-for-Alleged-WikiLeaks-Source-Discusses-Case/10737436204/

And, as far as legal arguments go, there are few arguments more perverse than this.

Yes, the prosecution is laughing in the faces of any and all who have the least bit of common sense about what they are witnessing. I don’t know if ‘Contempt Charges’ can officially be applied to what the prosecution is doing with this nonsense, but they should be. How could any self respecting judge listen to this and not tell the prosecution to either stop trying to play everyone for fools, or just sit down and shut up until if and when they can come up with something that has any resemblance to a reasonable argument.

Thank you Cherri Foytlin for standing strong and risking all that you’re risking on behalf of your family, yourself, all of us and Mother Earth.

This should be tied into your report:

Why would President Obama want a Yemeni journalist, known for his reports of human rights abuses, to remain in Yemeni prison?

That’s the question Abdul Ilah Haydar Shayi’ wants to know after two years in detention following his reports – later proven correct — that the United States was involved in a deadly attack on an alleged al-Qa’ida training camp which took place on Dec. 17, 2009.

http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/president-obama-keeps-a-yemeni-journalist-in-jail/

This story is a perfect example of why so called voting, especially nationally, has no effect at all on the totally corrupted oligarch system – except to give it your okiedokie support – that we are so clearly faced with.

Note to those who might choose to post the usual pony shit, such as if you don’t vote you can’t complain: If you vote for what this system is offering, you are the one who can’t complain. Your vote is a show of support. You can’t wash that off by claiming lesser of two evils or any of the other cliche excuses for continuing to support mass murder and mass thievery.

All of the clues you could ever need to see that we are being duped are there for anyone who looks. We are being bludgeoned every day with stories providing the evidence such as this post has provided. Millions of us have to stop supporting our own destruction and become massively involved in acts of civil disobedience. That civil disobedience can’t be about asking the so called leaders to do as we ask. Those so called leaders have rendered themselves irrelevant as far as our moving ourselves out of this perpetual dump. We need to make the needed changes ourselves. Let’s just try it and see instead of throwing up our hands and pulling another lever for oligarchy.

Four of my favorite journalist, bloggers people all in one program: Kevin Gosztola, Jane Hamsher, Alyona Minkovski and Glenn Greenwald! Enjoyed each of the videos, Kevin and your blog post. Fine work! Also I have to add that I’m envious and jealous that you’ve been able to meet and speak with Alyona. I’m not sure that I would be as composed as you seem to be in the videos if I were speaking with her. ;o)

Judging by what Kevin wrote in his post I would say that he certainly had not seen it at the time of publication of this blog post. As UserFromLatinAmerica commented, this is scandalous and disgusting “journalism” no matter if the dna test was bogus or a mistake or what have you. But if what was in that tweet is correct, some f’ing heads need to seriously roll.

Of course the commands are coming from Emanuel and even from Obama. But don’t give these police jerks a pass. The cop, not Rahm Emanuel, with gun drawn, screamed “Fucking hands” at the live streamers in their car. These coward cops think this shit is a movie and they are the heroes.

Shouldn’t there be, or is there, some online site with constant postings and updates by Legal teams about this and all other nefarious and questionable acts taken by police against citizen journalists/live streamers and other journalists in Chicago?

That’s not Jon Favreau the actor/director. That would be Jon Favreau the speechwriter — this guy at the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau_%28speechwriter%29

But we have put some much effort into making war, we don’t know how to make peace.

That is part of the theme of the documentary film The Crisis of Civilization
http://crisisofcivilization.com/

This is a wonderful victory. Thank you to all who helped to make it happen. But, I want to see that entire strip search Supreme Court ruling catch as much flak and be immediately rescinded. Not years from now, after untold damage has been done, but right the hell now or as soon as is humanely possible it should be knocked down. I think a starting point would be to name/expose as many of the actual, specific people who are responsible for it as we can dig up. And, for sure, that includes Obama first and foremost.