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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Hedges: The Revolutionaries in Our Midst
from truthdig:
The Revolutionaries in Our Midst
Posted on Nov 10, 2013
By Chris Hedges
NEW YORKJeremy Hammond sat in New Yorks Metropolitan Correctional Center last week in a small room reserved for visits from attorneys. He was wearing an oversized prison jumpsuit. The brown hair of the lanky 6-footer fell over his ears, and he had a wispy beard. He spoke with the intensity and clarity one would expect from one of the nations most important political prisoners.
On Friday the 28-year-old activist will appear for sentencing in the Southern District Court of New York in Manhattan. After having made a plea agreement, he faces the possibility of a 10-year sentence for hacking into the Texas-based private security firm Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor, which does work for the Homeland Security Department, the Marine Corps, the Defense Intelligence Agency and numerous corporations including Dow Chemical and Raytheon.
Four others involved in the hacking have been convicted in Britain, and they were sentenced to less time combinedthe longest sentence was 32 monthsthan the potential 120-month sentence that lies before Hammond.
Hammond turned the pilfered information over to the website WikiLeaks and Rolling Stone and other publications. The 3 million email exchanges, once made public, exposed the private security firms infiltration, monitoring and surveillance of protesters and dissidents, especially in the Occupy movement, on behalf of corporations and the national security state. And, perhaps most important, the information provided chilling evidence that anti-terrorism laws are being routinely used by the federal government to criminalize nonviolent, democratic dissent and falsely link dissidents to international terrorist organizations. Hammond sought no financial gain. He got none. ....................(more)
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Chris Hedges: The Revolutionaries in Our Midst (Original Post)
marmar
Nov 2013
OP
"to criminalize nonviolent, democratic dissent and falsely link dissidents to international terroris
woo me with science
Nov 2013
#2
Wm. Binney (formerly of NSA) says as much & adds all presidents starting with GW/cheney to today
mother earth
Nov 2013
#6
K&R One wonders where the real sacrifices for freedom & justice are made on days like today. nt
raouldukelives
Nov 2013
#7
Stratfor's hires didn't have to walk far: 5 blks from Occupy Austin/City Hall.
Eleanors38
Nov 2013
#10
xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. du rec.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)2. "to criminalize nonviolent, democratic dissent and falsely link dissidents to international terroris
Thank you for this post:
"And, perhaps most important, the information provided chilling evidence that anti-terrorism laws are being routinely used by the federal government to criminalize nonviolent, democratic dissent and falsely link dissidents to international terrorist organizations."
We live in a corporate surveillance/police state now, no matter what "democratic" scenery the corporate thieves choose to keep up on the walls.
K&R
mother earth
(6,002 posts)6. Wm. Binney (formerly of NSA) says as much & adds all presidents starting with GW/cheney to today
should have been impeached for what they have done...it IS criminal and has only grown in scope, absolutely unconstitutional.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)9. Not only the presidents,
but the congressional intelligence oversight committee members as well...
Looking at you, DiFi.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)4. Anyone with half a brain would know that they would abuse the power.
We have a right to dissent and protest and not to be criminalized for it. It's the 60's all over again.
westerebus
(2,976 posts)5. Has the President's staff informed him of this?
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)7. K&R One wonders where the real sacrifices for freedom & justice are made on days like today. nt
heaven05
(18,124 posts)8. what a shame
and exposes this country for the sham it is. By the way, Occupy was infiltrated by 'patriots' from the very beginning. God bless amerikkka.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)10. Stratfor's hires didn't have to walk far: 5 blks from Occupy Austin/City Hall.
Probably had coffee with APD infiltrators.
JEB
(4,748 posts)11. Why isn't this story front page and 24/7 on the TV?
Because the perps own the media.
JEB
(4,748 posts)12. More whistle blowers facing harsh punishment.
Still a few brave individuals risk much to reveal bits of truth. All the while media and political parties worship Fascist collaborators.