Dr.
Kevin Barrett, one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror, has
raised questions about the death of Aaron Swartz, a prominent info-warrior and
critic of President Obama’s “kill list.”
“As
with so many freemasonic assassinations, including that of ‘DC Madam’ Deborah
Jean Palfrey, Swartz was hanged. Naturally the police are calling it suicide,”
Dr. Barrett wrote in an article titled “Is Obama killing kill list critics?”
published on Veterans Today.
According
to Barrett, “Swartz’s death raises the obvious question: Can you criticize
Obama’s barbarian, unconstitutional ‘kill list’ without ending up on it
yourself?”
He
wrote, “the problem with Obama’s kill list is that it is targeting good people
(like Aaron Swartz) not bad people (like names deleted for reasons of National
Security). The bad people are the ones running the kill list. They are the ones
who should be (remainder of sentence deleted for reasons of National
Security).”
Barrett
explained that “So let me hereby state that I am not only an inveterate opponent
of Obama’s kill list, I am so angry about it that I would support putting an end
to it by any means, including (remainder of sentence deleted for reasons of
National Security). So shoot me.”
“Please
note that I’m a practicing Muslim, so suicide is out of the question,” he
said.
Swartz
was openly critical of the White House's policy of drone strikes against
suspected terrorists. Now it's being reported that the founder of the message
board site, Reddit, loudly voiced his disapproval of the White House's "kill
list". Gather.com "Every
week or so, more than 100 members of the U.S. national security team gather via
secure video teleconference run by the Pentagon and go over the biographies of
suspects in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, and "nominate" those who should be
targeted in the attacks," Swartz once wrote on his blog. The New York City
medical examiner deemed the death suicide by hanging, but there are still so
many questions about the mysterious tragedy. Gather.com Two
days after Swartz killed himself in the face of charges he stole journal
articles from MIT, university President L. Rafael Reif said the university will
start an internal investigation into its role in Swartz’s prosecution.
suntimes.com Swartz
faced 35 years in prison for stealing 4.8 million scholarly journal articles and
documents from subscription-only archive JSTOR. The articles were stored on the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer network.
suntimes.com JSTOR
later dropped charges against Swartz and chose to open the archives to the
public for free on a limited basis. suntimes.com “I
want to express very clearly that I and all of us at MIT are extremely saddened
by the death of this promising young man who touched the lives of so many,” Reif
said in the statement issued Sunday. “It pains me to think that MIT played any
role in a series of events that have ended in tragedy.”
suntimes.com In
a statement Saturday, Swartz's family in Chicago expressed bitterness toward
federal prosecutors pursuing the case against him in Massachusetts.
Newsday "Aaron's
death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice
system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by
officials in the Massachusetts U.S. attorney's office and at MIT contributed to
his death," they said. Newsday
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