PrudenceYuris

That's a good point regarding the petition, which is why direct action against these people should not be limited to signing the petition.

Indeed, they should be harried out of their professional and private lives as thoroughly and relentlessly as they drove Swartz to suicide. Their lives should be made not worth living.

Which is why efforts to end her career should go forward with as little restraint as her prosecution

That is a curious argument.

The point of this petition, and everything else done to remove Ortiz, Heymann, and Garland is that it is a repeatable process.

Making a spectacular example of Ortiz et. al. is a first step, but it's a fine first step.

Or put it this way, would we have as many lawyers willing to shield torture had John Yoo ended up delivering pizza for a living?

Crowdsourcing the destruction of the career of an out-of-control prosecutor is a repeatable process, and, as Internet forums gain mass, a process that will get easier to apply.

In other words, this is the public perception of crime on the move. You can see this in other areas of discourse, like cannabis legalization, getting rid of red light cameras that have been shown to increase collisions, etc.

Look to the Tunisian fruit merchant who self-immolated. Suicide as protest is with us today.

Her political ambitions, professional contact network, and post-DoJ employment prospects could be destroyed, costing her millions of dollars in income. Same for Heymann.

Knowing that hundreds of thousands of people in an industry they interface with would fuck them over given a chance must be a bit depressing.

He and his family members have numerous computing industry connections in their network. Turn these connections against him, and isolate him.

David E. Green is VP public policy at NBC Universal. He should be aware of what a pariah Heymann is.

Here is half the phone conversation from tomorrow morning:

Mr. President, one of your appointees made it to the top of the petition list...

No, sir, it's not good news

Shall we draft a response for your approval?

No you don't know her personally...

Hey, at least she's not Deval's Lt. Gov.

Duplicate. This one has 1500 signatures already: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat...

"she did not do anything wrong"

That's a pretty arrogant statement in light of the general opinion regarding this case. It's also arrogant to think that someone, somewhere, will not find some means to destroy her career when at least tens of thousands will try.

You simultaneously claim that attempts to make an example of her will fail, and that such attempts should not even be made. Pfft. Something something before a fall.

Congress is bought and elections are a choice among the bought.

We are dealing with prideful arrogant people. They need a vivid example in order to get their attention. Destroying this case's prosecutors' careers is only a good start.

Hate the game or play the game.

Destroying her reputation. Stripping her of every professional friendship by making her a pariah. Piling on in every conceivable forum against her. Making it cost her every every she ever earned, her home, her retirement, and every penny of any family member willing to help her would be perfectly fitting and proportionate in that light.

And yet you will see people here say "Write a note to your Congressman" and that should be the limit of it. Bah.

Stephen P. Heymann deserves special attention. He worked for the "Security Division" of EMC. He may have a past record of inflating small exploits with no criminal intent into federal cases. We don't need lawyers like that practising tech law.

Her entire career, professional circle, and reputational supports have made an error in backing her, and they need to hear that directly.

She hounded someone to suicide, and the repercussions for that are light if they are limited to ending her career.

You need to reread that.

Contact her professional network, and let them know you don't approve of her actions. No tar. No feathers. Just make your own opinion known in the circles that matter to her career.

Then do something about it.

This prosecutor is quite the collector and displayer of awards: http://www.necc.mass.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Carmen-O...

She is a PR asset to this university: http://www.pr.com/press-release/366324

Evidently some people want her to run for higher office: http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/01/...

Governor Ortiz? Make sure it isn't: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/12/07/patrick-reported...

And if you are a big biotech company, you can readily negotiate a deal to avoid prosecution: http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/gsk/plea-ex-k.pdf

Oh, and piling on in the JSTOR case, while pleading down to two years for an actual money-stealing ATM skimmer with real victims: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/11/08/romanian-man-who...

Make sure this black spot eclipses them all. Contact the organizations she is a member of and/or a recipient of some award. Make sure the leadership of that organization knows that she lacks a sense of proportion and that this tendency to overreach cost a good man his life.

Make this an exercise in how to correct these injustices, and make her an example to other prosecutors.