Civil Rights Icon John Lewis: Snowden’s Actions In Line With Gandhi, Thoreau

[MADem]

84. You do know the guy bullshitted, didn't you?

He later admitted everything he did. He also stole credit cards.

No one forced him to plead guilty--he did it because he mouthed off to another "hacker" who had been turned by the FBI. He was CAUGHT by "one of his own."

See, that's the problem with this "Anonymous" nonsense ....with the childish little face masks made by Warner Brothers, and the stupid electronic voice, and all the dramatic "Expect Us" silliness. Half of the people in that outfit are INFORMANTS.

“While he billed himself as fighting for an anarchist cause, in reality, Jeremy Hammond caused personal and financial chaos for individuals whose identities and money he took and for companies whose businesses he decided he didn’t like," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. "He was nothing more than a repeat offender cybercriminal who thought that because of his computer savvy he was above the law that binds and protects all of us."

During the Stratfor attack, Hammond and other hackers, who were part of an offshoot of Anonymous known as Antisec, found e-mail correspondence, financial and personal data -- including 60,000 credit card numbers -- belonging to 860,000 clients.....

Before his arrest last year, Hammond, of Chicago, served two years in prison for hacking a conservative political group's server and stealing 5,000 credit card numbers.

He has spent 15 months in prison on the Stratfor charges. During that time, he claims he has been held in solitary confinement and denied visits and phone calls with family and friends.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/28/jeremy-hammond-anonymous-hacker-guilty-stratfor_n_3347215.html

How would you like it if he hacked a "liberal political group's server" and stole 5000 credit card numbers--maybe YOURS? Would you still call this clown a hero?

But yeah, he's some kind of "hero" freedom fighter. He's not. He is a thief.

People get put in solitary for being assholes in the general population, not for "political reasons."

He's got all the time in the world to opine, now--he'll just have to learn to do it with a pencil and paper.