While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” a Federal grand jury in the district of massachusetts hands down an indictment against Aaron Swartz, founder of Demand Progress, threatening him with 35 years on prison and a 1,000,000 “dollar” fine, for downloading academic journal articles that were available to the public.

       Postscript: Eighteen months later Schwartz committed suicide.

       [added 5/9/2022] Thanks to Lila Garrett for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

2/2/2012                   3/26/2012                    4/2/2012                   5/11/2012

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface

References:

USDOJ: US Attorney’s Office – District of Massachusetts.htm
web.archive.org/web/20120526080523/http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR.html

Aaron Swartz – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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