On 2014-01-05 08:44, Juan Garofalo wrote:
1) that he wasn't striking at intellectual property is your (false) side of the story.
2) the physical property of the state and its accomplices isn't legitimate property, or rather, it isn't *their* property.
That Aaron Schwarz repeatedly drew attention to himself by recklessly disrupting the network shows he thought of himself as the state, and those who he harmed as not the state. Much as Henry Louis Gates obviously considered himself the state, and a mere policeman as not the state. Snowden knew he risked punishment for civil disobedience, and so made his activities as normal as possible, as unobtrusive as possible. Aaron Schwarz did not know, and was so horrified to discover he was not part of the powerful that he followed in the footsteps of his hero Wallace and killed himself. Plus, just look at the smirk on his face. That says "I am powerful and protected, and those I have just harmed are not."