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Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies At 37 (zdnet.com)
Adrian Lamo, a well-known hacker known for his involvement in passing information on whistleblower Chelsea Manning and hacking into systems at The New York Times, Microsoft, and Yahoo in the early-2000s, has died at 37. ZDNet reports: His father, Mario, posted a brief tribute to his son in a Facebook group on Friday. "With great sadness and a broken heart I have to let know all of Adrian's friends and acquittances that he is dead. A bright mind and compassionate soul is gone, he was my beloved son," he wrote. The coroner for Sedgwick County, where Lamo lived, confirmed his death, but provided no further details. Circumstances surrounding Lamo's death are not immediately known. A neighbor who found his body said he had been dead for some time.
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Adrian Lamo extended that faith to the government. He had faith that the people in government offices were true to their oaths, and he had faith that eventually a proper justice would be served. He had faith that talking to the authorities would lead to a righteous outcome.
Or he was a narc because that was a condition of his lenient sentencing, and he chose to take it.
When is this country going to stop passing out opiate pills like candy and threating in to kill heroin dealers while young people die in droves?
Heroin dealers aren't lacing heroin with fentanyl and carfentanyl - they want repeat customers.
The fentanyl is made in China, shipped to Mexico, and cut there with heroin made in Afghanistan (Taliban operations supported by the US Army). The CIA imports the heroin, and they get exactly the desired effect - dumbasses like you calling for more power for the government to engage in extrajudicial killings domestically.
End the drug war, sell clean heroin at Walmart, and divert all the money into treatment centers, and you'll clean up both the crime and the body count. This experiment has been run and it works everywhere it's tried. At this point people who support the drug war are either making money on it, useful idiots, or those who just enjoy seeing people die.
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We have often disagreed, but Bill has this right. (Except, perhaps, for the CIA importing heroin... that's so 1970s. But they still could be, for similar perverse reasons.)
Basic economics has shown, and by real-world experience: end the drug war, and you also solve the other problems.
Drug use does not go up, compared to other countries.
Addiction rates go way DOWN. Without criminal penalty, more people seek treatment.
Disease rates go way DOWN. No incentive to share needles (or other means of transmission) and spread disease.
ALL LOGIC AND EXPERIENCE OVER MANY DECADES says that just like alcohol prohibition, the War On Drugs is not just a failure, but the cause of most of the problems.
The majority of the non-suicide firearm deaths in the US are "criminal-enterprise-related". That means, almost always, something drug-related.
Remove the underground profit motive, and you remove most of the related crimes and deaths.
It's not just logic, we have 100 years of practice saying that is so.
The status quo benefits BOTH sides: law enforcement, and drug dealers. Both have bigger budgets, and better weapons compared to before.
And that won't stop. Until we eliminate the need for a black market.
It's really pretty simple economics.