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Peter Adekeye Freed, Judge Outraged At Cisco's Involvement
puppetman writes "Ars Technica has an article relating the recent release of Peter Adekeye, a former Cisco employee who was arrested in Canada on trumped-up charges that appear to have been fabricated by Cisco. Slashdot covered the story back in April, 2011, during which time Mr Adekeye was still being detained. In the ruling, the judge squashed the US extradition request, rebuked both the Canadian and American authorities for 'an appalling abuse of process,' and goes as far as to say that the criminal proceeding was launched on behalf of Cisco, to mirror the civil proceedings that Mr Adekeye had launched against the powerful Cisco." The full judgement (PDF) is quite readable and damning.
Great. It's "damning". Yay.
Will we see any penalties for Cisco breaking the law?
*crickets*
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"there are still actual judges on this planet after all .....
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Notice this judge is not an American one. If it were you bet he would probably be in the slammer as many judges are elected by businesses who lobby for pro corporate friendly judges to rule in their favor. Canada has actual sanity and does not allow this appauling abuse.
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They don't rely much on Canadian precedent, though.
Uhhh, I am positive this sort of abuse happens in Canada. It happens anywhere where money is important to people. It may not be as bad as the US, but you can't say it doesn't happen.
That brings me to an interesting point, / . is just "the ramblings of socially-inept, technology-literate news-mongers".
This is just another sad statement showing the "End of America" and the dream it was, under Bush/Cheney civil liberties became secondary and Obama/Biden has done nothing to restore justice.
If we in the US isn't careful we'll start blaming our countries problems on the poor/sick/gay, which is only one step away from rounding up groups and shipping them off in rail cars.
The same company that's all but leading the charge to lower the corporate tax rate in the US, while simultaneously shipping jobs overseas?
Whatever for?
Thank God for Canada. This case illustrates exactly why the trend internationally to reduce the role of the courts in extradition to mere rubber stamping is so dangerous (for eg, the EAW and the removal of the need for a prima facie case to be made to the responding court in new extradition treaties).
Bureaucrats have long viewed the need for anything other than a simple request for extradition to be produced to the other country as an annoying inconvenience and, arguing that extradition is merely an 'administrative' and not a criminal procedure, have secured changes in the law in some countries. But how can anything resulting in the removal of someone's freedom *not* be a criminal procedure? Were it not for the fact that some civil law states in Europe absolutely refuse to hand over their own citizens to any other State (I suppose with the exception of within the EU under the EAW), we would rapidly be heading towards a world where any government hands over any person to any other government on flimsy grounds. This is the case already between certain countries.
Well, at least you don't have Obama. He is a good speaker, and seems like a nice guy, but he doesn't do and hasn't done ANYTHING. He'd rather go on vacation, or while actually doing the duties of his office "talk" about doing something without backing it up. I suppose that's better than doing the wrong thing all the time like Bush did, but in a recession you sort of need politicians to try to do something, and try to make it right.
That brings me to an interesting point, / . is just "the ramblings of socially-inept, technology-literate news-mongers".
Um, this was the OBAMA Justice Department. If this were Bush's Justice Department, I'm sure Darth Cheney or Halliburton would have been blamed. So, where is the outrage from the "left" here?
The left are just useful idiots and the right are just idiots.
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He didn't do any of that except Bin Laden, and even that was not due directly to his involvement. The military did that, and even as commander in chief he knows next to nothing about what actually happens day to day in the military. The rest of that, that was congress or fabricated. You can't prove a great depression would have ever happened, nor can you prove anything saved it from happening.
That brings me to an interesting point, / . is just "the ramblings of socially-inept, technology-literate news-mongers".
And there's the rub. "They're a company, so, of course they're just a big sociopath" isn't really an excuse, is it?
the CFAA (18 USC 1030) was the law they attempted to use against Adekeye
this law is seriously flawed and possibly unconstitutional.
Lori Drew, Thomas Drake, Peter Adekeye, George Hotz, all of them allegedly violated it. What kind of law outlaws such a broad range of things?
Corporate Death Penalty
Since the US treats corporations as individuals this is not a bad idea and has the huge benefit that nobody actually dies. Just shut the corporation down, all property is confiscated and sold to recompense the victims and any excess donated to relevant charities and all IP is released the to public domain (to repay damage to society the company caused). Executives get nothing - all pay, bonues, pensions etc cancelled (and they may be liable for further criminal charges/penalties if warranted) and most importantly even the shareholders get nothing so that they are very strongly motivated to not turn a blind eye if they suspect something is rotten.
Of course we will never see anything like that actually happen because the corporations are far too powerful but wouldn't that be an amazing deterrent to corporate misbehaviour!
Yeah but in the US 'global' means 'on the land mass between New York and San Fransisco.'
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So, where is the outrage from the "left" here?
Maybe read all the comments to this story? You're like a guy wearing a blindfold shrieking "I DON'T SEE IT"