From Wired:
When 22-year-old programmer Aaron Swartz decided last fall to help an open-government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he’d end up with an FBI agent trying to stake out his house.
As the piece goes on to describe, the FBI launched its investigation just before Swartz (and Carl Malamud, the above mentioned open-government activist) were profiled in The New York Times for their efforts to place as many uncopyrighted district court documents, usually available for eight-cents a page via the courts’ clunky PACER system, online for free. Swartz designed a computer program that took advantage of free use of the PACER system at some libraries to extract almost 20 million pages of documents, gratis.
As the FBI went about its business, they eventually contacted Swartz for an interview, which he wisely declined. And after the investigation was thankfully dropped—to me, it’s pretty clear that Swartz committed no crime, and that calling the FBI was a massive and troubling overreaction—Swartz decided to extract another set of government documents: he filed a Freedom of Information Act request for his FBI records, which he posted last night on his blog.
I subscribed to the CJR last year. I am a victim of bias and prejudice from various jurists within the New York State Supreme Court and its Appellate Court.
I've been targeted by gangsters within Freemasonry since 1999. They went into the archives at the New York State DMV and placed 28 false violations on my driver license. In order to facilitate a false arrest and confiscate my valid California driver license while visiting New York. Well recently via the New York City Advocates office the NYS DMV expunged all these violations.
However, back on October 29, 1999, approximately 2 weeks after the false arrest. I was involved in an automobile accident which rendered me physically impaired with injuries in three-four ares of my spine (cervical,thoracic,lumber/sacral). This secret society used corrupt doctors to undertreat and keep information about my condition from me. They had the radiologist sent one set of MRI report to my then barrister (Jacoby & Meyers) and another to my then doctor. Meantime, it had me falsely arrest in October 2000, maliciously prosecuted by Charles Hynes office, and imprisoned until June 2001. All the charges were dismissed. During the episode I was a victim of grand larceny which NYPD reported as a "petty larceny" in prevent its investigation. They stole my intellectual property (such as a draft for a manuscript), business equipment, professional wardrobe, college books and notes. I was left homeless and unable to prove whom I was.
I cloak the false arrest and imprisonment. It hired unethical practitioners of the art of "psychiatry" to put false a false diagnose that I was mentally impaired.
It used corrupt individuals within the Social Security Administration to deprive me of disability benefits because of the spinal condition. They (SSA) attempt to coerce me to submit a claim for a "mental impairment," rather than "physical impairment." The unfortune accident made it impossible to pursue my professional ambition (successful real estate executive).
Meantime, the NYS HRA, and the NYC Human Resource have subjected me to all manner of harassment and discrimination; which violate public policy. Even New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was involved in Freemasonry machination to destroy me.
Meantime it has undermined my personal injury lawsuit at the Suprme Court. I had to dismiss three lawyers, and now I'm proceeding pro-se. It used corrupt jurist, my then barristers, and the defendants to undermine the the court Civil Practice Law andn Rules. I took my grievance to New York State Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau, and the then Chief Justice Judith S. Kaye. They intervened in my behalf. Then as my matter began to proceed to trial at the Kings County Supreme. The defendants barrister appealed a favorable decision in my behalf by Justice Leon Ruchelsman. The panel of judges allwed the defendants barrister to proceed in an appeal in which it did not submit the entire record. One of the jurists (Reinaldo Rivera)in its decision-making panel was involved in my false imprisonment.
I sent a grievance to the chief admininstrative judges chief of staff after speaking with him personally by telephone.
White my action was in the non-jury conference part. They defendant's barrister motioned to dismiss, I was to respond by October 15, tomorrow. And planned to ask for an application to adjourn in order to prepare the response which required extensive medical, case law research. I also purposed to show the court how Freemasonry used corrupt medical professionals to undermine and ruin my finances.
Then, yesterday I received a letter from the defendants barrister that the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division: Seceond Judicial Department. Rendered a Order against me, revesring the just order by Justice Leon Ruchelsman in January, based upon its incomplete record. The decision was based upon completely false information.
Now, I must take the matter to the Court of Appeals. My hope is that that honorable, jurists in the judiciary will realize the matter can turn to be an expose like the "Dreyfus Affair" of 1895.
In 2007 I sent a 134--page outline of the manuscript,which I began to rewrite in 2005, to Harvard University Press. And it sent me a letter endorsing the project. However, with my physical condition and lack of finances--Although I've prepared a business plan to establish a publishing entity,in order to publish the manuscript myself. And a periodical to as a venue to further discuss the many issues raised in the manuscript.--I can't legally raised the $5 million without paying for filing fees at the state level regarding disclosure.
The reason I subscribed to the Columbia Journalism Review is because the content of my manuscript is nonfiction philosophical/theology dealing with current, political affairs. Impartial and objective journalism is an essential component of a functional democracy. We live in what I describe as an illusion of democracy. And that situation came to be because mainstream journalism's point of view is subjective and narrow. To protect the interest of its owners, and those in its realm of influence.
Well, I can write a lot more but I'll stop here. By the way I recieved several of my issues of CJR because your entity could find the payment I'd made. I receivd the Sept/Oct issue and I'm still reading the many excellent articles.
I intend to support your organization once I prevail either in my pending civil action or the publication of "a most interesting book" ( as said by Harvard University Press).
Sincerely,
Leslie Barnave
lesliebarnave@netzero.net
718-471-0489
P.S. I didn't proof the above message. So please excuse attention errors, such as typographical. My pains from the spinal conditional is rising above the manageable threshold level.
Your magazine is impressive.
Posted by Leslie Barnave on Wed 14 Oct 2009 at 11:53 AM