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Anonymous Hacker Gets Lost At Sea, Rescued, Then Arrested (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Martin Gottesfeld, 31, from Somerville, Massachusetts, was arrested by FBI agents after being rescued at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the FBI, Mr. Gottsfeld was under investigation after launching a series of cyber-attacks against Boston Children's Hospital in 2014, as part of the Anonymous hacker collective. Gottesfeld and his wife were found in a sailboat, near the coast of Cuba, with lots of luggage and 3 laptops. A Disney Cruise ship took them to the Bahamas, where FBI agents took him into custody.
Boston Children's Hospital was likely in the wrong for what they did. Here's some background: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/07/difficult-return-hospital-for-justina-pelletier/u4JXzmt5YsmWhYk95za2aK/story.html. Justina Pelletier had been diagnosed with a mitochondrial disorder, but doctors at BCH decided the ailments were mental. They claimed that Pelletier's parents were harming her by seeking medical treatments that the BCH doctors deemed unnecessary with their diagnosis. Pelletier was declared a ward of the state and spent over a year in a psychiatric health unit. Another article worth reading is http://www.csoonline.com/article/2147347/hacktivism/activisms-slippery-slope-anonymous-targets-childrens-hospital.html, which says that there was a note allegedly written by Pelletier saying that caregivers in the psychiatric health unit were abusing her.
Diagnosing some ailments is difficult, and doctors don't always agree. I suspect Pelletier's parents believed they were doing the right thing. Declaring her a ward of the state was a pretty awful thing to do. If the caregivers didn't treat her well, that's even worse. Campaigns on social media and going to the traditional media to protest this is absolutely warranted. Threatening to harm doctors crosses the line. Denial of service attacks against a hospital might affect systems used to provide medical care, endangering patients. That's truly wrong because it puts innocent people at risk of being collateral damage.
The Disney Caribbean cruise travels first to a port in Mexico, then essentially sails around to the other side of Cuba to either Grand Cayman and/or Jamaica, depending on the cruise you book. All the interesting islands in the Caribbean essentially surround Cuba. See for yourself:
http://disneycruiselineblog.co...
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According to a couple of reports he was arrested in Miami.
It's not that simple. This isn't a case of siding with the medical experts versus the parents. This was a case where the medical experts disagreed on the causes of the child's symptoms. The doctors at BCH claimed it was a mental health issue. The doctors at Tufts believed it was a physical health issue. The parents were stuck in the middle between doctors at two hospitals who disagreed. When the opted to follow the treatments proposed by doctors at Tufts, the doctors at BCH alleged medical child abuse. BCH made claims of medical child abuse in a similar case with a different child. In that case, removing the medical treatments actually harmed the child during the course of a six week hospital stay. If a parent agrees to remove necessary physical treatments from a child based on the diagnosis of a different doctor when the physical treatments were necessary, couldn't that be considered child abuse? The child is now being treated by doctors at a hospital at Yale who again believe the issues are physical in nature rather than mental. What you call siding with the medical professionals is actually siding with one group of doctors in the minority versus the diagnoses of doctors at two other hospitals. You're also siding with doctors who apparently made an improper allegation of medical child abuse in another similar case.
Rei has always been a great supporter of the State. Whether it's oppressive environmental regulations or snatching a child from a family because they didn't blindly accept the medical advice from a strange doctor, that never even really spent time on their kid's case, and which conflicted wiht the advice of their family's doctor, Rei is right there backing up the Government.
I guess you could say he is a Government Tool to end all Government Tools.
Holy Crap, you people are ignorant.
1. Justina's Doctor moved from their home town to BCH.
2. HE was the one that diagnosed her and was treating her.
3. They took her there in order to see him during a difficult time for her.
4. BCH people NEVER LET HIM SEE HER.
5. Instead, they sent her to the Psch ward where some asshat Doctor had a program that had previously taken children away from other parents.
To reiterate. HER Doctor, who Diagnosed her and was treating her, moved to BCH. That's why they went there.
BTW, her doctor is a leading expert in the field of mitochondrial disease.
It's all out there for anyone to read with just a tiny bit of effort.
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