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Barrett Brown, Freedom Of The Press, And The Failed Shield Law

July 22, 2015 By Ali Salaam 2 Comments

It’s been one year since journalist Barrett Brown was recently sentenced to 63 months, or 5 years in prison, while the corporate state he was trying to expose walks free, continuing their crimes against humanity.

Perhaps George Orwell said it best: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”

The American government has no interest in protecting press freedom. They just want to protect the press that serves the agenda of war and limi the political conversation to only the two parties. Forget objectivity on the Middle East: Rupert Murdoch is in the oil business in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights with Lord Jacob Rothschild, whose family created the Federal Reserve as well as Israel’s Supreme Court Building, and Dick Cheney; Wolf Blitzer is a former AIPAC lobbyist; and Anderson Cooper was a former intern at the CIA.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Media & Culture Tagged With: Barrett Brown, Freedom of Religion, journalism, whistleblowers, Wikileaks

VIDEO: Protesting George Friedman, CEO Of Stratfor, in Austin & San Francisco

February 13, 2015 By Kit O'Connell 15 Comments

On January 22, journalist and political prisoner Barrett Brown was convicted in a Texas court of controversial charges. In addition to a 63-month sentence, Brown is expected to pay $890,250 in restitution to the private spy agency, Strategic Forecasting (a.k.a. “Stratfor”). This monumental fine, which turns a theoretically free citizen into an indentured servant of a corporation, is meant to hold Brown responsible for a hack by the Anonymous group LulzSec — even though the government admitted it didn’t have any concrete evidence to show he’d taken any material part in the hack.

Jeremy Hammond, a member of LulzSec, pled guilty in May of 2013 and was sentenced to ten years in prison. The hack, carried out under the instruction of the FBI’s agent saboteur and snitch Sabu, revealed millions of emails that showed the complex interrelationship between the private intelligence firm, multinational corporations, and the surveillance state. The emails also revealed how Stratfor had infiltrated activist groups from Texas to India.

On February 2, 2015, George Friedman, Stratfor’s CEO, was scheduled to sign his book “Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe,” at Book People, an independent bookstore in Austin, Texas. It would be Hammond’s 1,065th day in prison; Brown had been incarcerated for 874.

George Friedman, you should have expected us.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: activism, Anonymous, Anonymous Solidarity Network, Austin, Azzurra Crispino, Barrett Brown, Bhopal, Book Passage, Book People, California, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dick Cheney, Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, FreeAnons, FreeBB, George Friedman, GI Files, Global Intelligence Files, hacking, hacktivism, Hector Monsegur, Hector Xavier Monsegur, India, Jeremy Hammond, journalism, Lulz, Lulzsec, NSA, Occupy Austin, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, PAPS, political prisoners, prison, prison abolition, Prison Abolition & Prisoner Solidarity, protest, Sabu, San Francisco, San Francisco Occupy Action Council, Strategic Forecasting, Sue Crabtree, surveillance, Texas, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas State Troopers, Union Carbide, War, Wikileaks

Controversial Case Lands Barrett Brown With 63 Months in Prison

January 22, 2015 By Cole McMillian 2 Comments

Barrett Brown, journalist, satirist, activist and columnist with links to Anonymous, has been sentenced to 63 months in prison after lengthy litigation.

Brown was charged with three counts: accessory post unauthorized access to a protected computer, threatening a federal agent and obstruction in the execution of a search warrant. Brown was convicted on all three counts receiving a 48 month, 12 month and 3 month sentence all to be served consecutively.

Brown has spent approximately 28 months in jail already which will be credited to his sentence as time served. According to Brown’s attorneys, his best outcome is release to a halfway house after a one year deduction on his prison sentencing contingent upon his completion of a drug program. However, Brown could spend as much as 35 months in prison.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: Anonymous, AntiSec, Austin, Barrett Brown, Bureau of Prisons, computer security, credit card fraud, Dallas, Department of Justice, drug war, FBI, FreeBB, Glenn Greenwald, hackers, hacking, journalism, political prisoners, prison, Robert Smith, Sabu, Samuel Lindsay, security, Strategic Forecasting, Stratfor, Texas, The Daily Dot, United States Bureau of Prisons, war on drugs

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