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'Anonymous' Hacker Indicted As His Hunger Strike Continues (newsweek.com)
Eight months after being rescued at sea near Cuba and then arrested, Anonymous hacker Martin Gottesfeld now faces prosecution as well as death by hunger. Newsweek reports:
A member of Anonymous has been indicted on hacking charges while on the third week of a prison hunger strike protesting perceived institutionalized torture and political prosecutions. Martin Gottesfeld, 32, was charged this week in relation to the hacking of Boston Children's Hospital in 2014 following the alleged mistreatment of one of its patients. Gottesfeld has previously admitted to targeting the hospital, though says he did it in defense of "an innocent, learning-disabled, 15-year-old girl"...
Since beginning his hunger strike on October 3, Gottesfeld tells Newsweek from prison he has lost 16.5 pounds. He says he will continue his hunger strike until two demands are met: a promise from the presidential candidates that children are not mistreated in the way he claims Pelletier was; and an end to the "political" style of prosecution waged by Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts.
The indictment claims that the hospital spent more than $300,000 to "mitigate" the damage from the 2014 attack.
Since beginning his hunger strike on October 3, Gottesfeld tells Newsweek from prison he has lost 16.5 pounds. He says he will continue his hunger strike until two demands are met: a promise from the presidential candidates that children are not mistreated in the way he claims Pelletier was; and an end to the "political" style of prosecution waged by Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts.
The indictment claims that the hospital spent more than $300,000 to "mitigate" the damage from the 2014 attack.
Anybody really think they will let him die? Please! There will be feeding tubes going into both ends..
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
His reasons for doing it (from another thread)
He won't die from that. They'll just force-feed him through a tube.
That says all you need to know. Could there be a more infantile group wannabes?
I was highly skeptical of the whole thing until I read the words "Carmen Ortiz". Now I am forced to look at this knowing a corrupt, unrepentant career criminal (Ortiz) is involved.
Save yourself from hunger and indictment by not being a jerk. Not being a jerk to people has many benefits.
Cut off his head, stick it on a pole, carve the word TOILET on his forehead and have the folk use it as an urinal.
Tell me more about this political style of prosecution. Is it happening because the U. S. attorney has a name relating to the Southern America, leading automatically to the causes of the political instability in the subcontinent?
Why not just get these guys addicted to heroine and when they are bad they do not get their fix.
He was worthless to society anyways
I don't think Anonymous went about things the right way but they appear to be right about the problem with BCH. A BCH psychiatrist (usually the bottom of the med school barrel) invoked invasive legal provisions to kidnap a child with a medical condition diagnosed and treated by internal medicine doctors at another Boston hospital. The kid became a multiple cash stream and an injured experimental subject of BCH, as well as hostage. Both Mass and Conn became complicit in the kidnap.
After a year, BCH essentially proved the other drs right by almost killing the kid. The parents and kid were damaged far more than $300,000. The kid's health then had to be restored as best as possible by the parents' previous drs... By a jury, the actual damages would be over a million.
The real issues here involve the state "antiabuse" powers against competent and caring parents, corporate greed and persistent misbehavior (BCH), involuntary experimental subjects, medical corruption, and gunpoint medicine. BCH got off lightly, the favored historical response to kidnapping and torture is death.
From the goddamn dictionary:
Hacker: a person who secretly gets access to a computer system in order to get information, cause damage, etc. : a person who hacks into a computer system
You are dead wrong. And I don't know where you got the idea that you get to dictate what worlds mean. You don't control the world, and you certainly don't control the English language.
Fucking moron.
That is what this sounds like to me. It kind of like a physical blockade to a room where people go to give donations. Only difference is that it's one individual verses many.
Three weeks in a white collar jail seems like an appropriate punishment to me.
As for what they did to the girl and her family: A children's hospital guilty of abuse... As for the Doctors involved.. if they didn't push their diagnosis then it's not on them but rather social services. The doctors would just be fallible idiots and need this misdiagnosis on their records for the rest of their life. But often enough there are laws that force Doctors to report, when they even in the slightest they suspect abuse. In that case it's social services that was abusive. There should always be at least 5 doctors involved from different hospitals in a case like this before you remove a child from a parents custody and control.
I don't care what the social service liberals says. You have to prove abuse. And hard as it maybe to believe it can be more traumatic and abusive to remove a child from so called abuse. In such cases you supervise and collect hard evidence. Where are the punishments to the system when the system gets it wrong?
I would like to see an accounting of the $300K. If BCH paid $300K to put locks on e-doors that should have had locks, it's largely their own fault.
I find the case of Justina Pelletier very disturbing, as with far too many cases of overreach and abuse of power by "authorities". The problem is that most people in society say "that's terrible" and shake their fists at their screens but do little or nothing about it, because there is very little we can do. The police police themselves with very little oversight. I wish people like Martin Gottesfeld, or whoever did the BCH attack, could work together and fight injustice in a more civil, organized, and effective way, rather than just give "authorities" more need for ever increasing budgets and weapons.
I only have Wikipedia and news to go on, but it seems the hospital went to court to take her from her parents. They stopped the heart medicine she was on, stopped a lot of other medicines...... and they were correct. She was being medically abused by over anxious parents demanding medicines for problems that weren't real.
A year later the same judge returned her to her parents and she was alive and well. WITHOUT ALL THAT MEDICINE THEY'D BEEN SHOVING INTO HER.
So surely time showed the medical professionals in the children's hospital were correct.
Housing him with the rest of the nuts is a crime against the other nuts.
Is that really a fair way to portray it? I mean he's doing it to himself.
I found this mildly amusing.... as I actually started dieting on October 1st. Just been on a normal keto diet and have lost 12 pounds so far. (270 originally... down to 258 now.... still a long way to go.) I find it somewhat comforting that somebody who hasn't eaten a THING in the same amount of time has only lost an extra 4 pounds. :-D