The rise and fall of Jeremy Hammond: enemy of the state

[Os Cangaceiros]

http://anarchistnews.org/content/rise-and-fall-jeremy-hammond-enemy-state

Usually Rolling Stone's articles about radical activism (they've done a bunch...ones about the ELF/ALF, that anarchist dude who got shot down in Mexico, and the Cleveland 5 to name a few) make me roll my eyes, this one was kind of an interesting story about a politicized hacker though.

Jeremy Hammond deserves all the support the left can give IMO. Esp for the Stratfor action...Stratfor and all groups/individuals like it who provide "consultation" for the best course of state repression are such scum. If there were any justice in the world they'd be all floating face-down in a river somewhere.

[Lynx]

I respect him for following his convictions, alas his 15 minutes of fame are over.

[Os Cangaceiros]

He's looking at serious shit, that's for sure. But he did two years in federal prison and only came out more pissed off and politicized, so I don't think he'll abandon political struggle (hopefully).

He was responsible for some pretty good rhetoric, though:



The statement led off with an illustration of an AK-47 and the slogan "Off the pigs." The data dump – hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal e-mails, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement, including documents pertaining to the border patrol and counterterrorism efforts, and the use of confidential informants – was made in protest of the "racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona."

After Chinga la Migra #1, there was Chinga la Migra #2, #3 and #4 – all directed at Arizona, and later Texas, law enforcement; each one more radical sounding than the last. "Yes we're aware that [releasing the personal information of police officers] risks their safety, those poor defenseless police officers who lock people up for decades, who get away with brutality and torture . . . who make and break their own laws as they see fit," one missive read. "We are making sure they experience . . . the same kind of violence and terror they dish out on an every day basis." It concluded: "We're not stopping until every prisoner is freed and every prison is burned to the ground."

Stuff like that makes me smile.

[Lynx]

What political objectives can he accomplish from a prison cell?

[Os Cangaceiros]

Radicalization of fellow prisoners, contributing to a culture of organized revolt in prison, etc. Prison is actually a pretty big sphere of struggle, esp. in the USA.