'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.

Comments

Carmen Ortiz

[RonVNX]

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.

recap

[harvey the nerd]

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.

Re:Lesson

[Sad Loser]

I agree. IAAD but not in US and not involved in this case.

When you practice medicine you are always surprised at what you find and you would not believe some of the things we see.
Patients in wheelchairs who are physically and neurologically normal. Patients who present with strange and catastrophic conditions who then turn out to be known Munchausens.

In the case of adults if someone chooses to do strange things we do not have any interest or right to stop them, providing they are not harming others.

However in the case of children, if we believe that illness is not present, and therefore that the child is being harmed by the presumption of illness, then we have a duty of care to the child to prevent it. It is not negotiable - we have legal and moral duty to do this. An example of this is children whose parents poison (and sometimes kill) using salt. These situations are very rarely immediately obvious.

This guy has taken on himself to judge this difficult and messy situation, and unless you are directly involved in the case and have some expertise to bring to the table, a lot of people would agree with you that this indeed makes it likely to be a jerk.