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Letters Desperately Needed For Jeremy Hammond's Sentencing

• http://jayleiderman.blogspot.com/2013/10/letters-d
"You don't have to know Jeremy to help, you just have to care" WHO IS JEREMY HAMMOND? Jeremy Hammond is a gifted young computer programmer facing a decade in prison. His crime? Leaking information from the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, information which revealed that Stratfor had been spying on human rights activists at the behest of corporations and the U.S. government. In March 2012 Jeremy was arrested in his Chicago home and charged with violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same legislation used to prosecute Aaron Swartz. This outdated law, written before the Internet was even created, gives absurdly broad powers to corporations and prosecutors to criminalize an array of online activity and pursue extreme and disproportionate sentences. By contrast, of Jeremy’s co-defendants in Ireland and in the U.K. none will spend more than 16 months in prison, and many have been released already. Jeremy has been denied bail, cut off from his family, and hel

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