AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail 449
Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "The notorious troll and hacker known as Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer spent 13 months in jail for exposing an AT&T security flaw. He was recently released when a federal court overturned the conviction on grounds of improper venue. Now, Auernheimer has penned an open letter to the Department of Justice in which he demands reparations for acts of 'fraud' and 'violence' carried out against him over the past three years. Those reparations must be paid in Bitcoin, he says — 28,296, to be exact. At current market value, that comes out to $13.7 million. The bombastic letter is titled 'Open letter to federal scum,' and was allegedly bcc'd to 'a few hundred journalists.' In it, 28-year-old Auernheimer writes that he calculated the sum owed to him based on his market value:"
A gem: "Know that all this wealth will be directed towards a good and charitable cause. I am building a series of memorial groves for the greatest patriots of our generation: Timothy McVeigh, Andrew Stack, and Marvin Heemeyer. You see, In the 'Special Housing Unit,' which is Bureau of Prisons codespeak for 'solitary confinement' and 'torture,' I had enough time to think about the current state of federal government. "
A fifth horseman (Score:5, Insightful)
Now we can watch our rights be taken away in order to punish assholes, on top of drug users, pedos, terrorists, and hackers.
Remember folks, what the government does to weev, it can do to everyone else.
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:5, Funny)
No shit? You mean the same country's government who passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, put the Japanese into concentration camps, got people fired and blacklisted for their political beliefs, etc. is more than willingly to abuse its powers? Say it aint so!!!
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His "troops" that is, people who think the likes of McVeigh, Stack, and Heemeyer as heroes probably doesn't need any more reason to rally. Most normal law-abiding citizens aren't going to rally behind the banner of McVeigh. He should have played the game and named a couple random founding fathers. Now he's allied himself with only those who find murdering innocent people a valid way to change the federal government (worked well didn't it?). I don't see him gaining much support.
And why does he include Heemeyer in when speaking of federal government? Heemeyer's problem was with the local town council not the feds. He agreed to sell his property to a cement manufacturer for $250K then reneged and demanded $375K then a million. Obviously, the cement folks said fuck you and petitioned the town council to rezone an adjacent piece of land for their plant. The whole reason for Heemeyer's rampage was his own stupidity and greed. We're supposed to rally around that guy? You really want the law to allow you to go on a rampage if you, by your own greed, refuse a deal then get cut out of the final deal?
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Yeap, this guy had a golden chance to make a cause and blew it by standing by people who kill other innocent people. Having a cause is one part knowing what to do and three parts getting the general public to like your cause. Using people who kill that general public tends to make them not like you all that much.
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:5, Interesting)
You see, In the 'Special Housing Unit,' which is Bureau of Prisons codespeak for 'solitary confinement' and 'torture,' I had enough time to think about the current state of federal government. "
The guy is clearly messed up in the head from his experience (or maybe he was to some degree before, I don't know). They successfully broke him. Most likely with all that time in solitary confinement, in his mind he rallied behind the names of people who are famous for hating the government, regardless of their cause. I wonder if he can find a good psychotherapist willing to accept bitcoins.
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You might want to take the blinders off. The EFF does a number of really great things, but they are not always the Robin Hood everyone makes them out to be.
Are you nuts?
Hey, man, I didn't claim they're perfect. But if I am faced with the choice of believing EFF vs AT&T and some known-to-be-overzealous Federal prosecutors, I'm going to believe EFF.
I clearly stated it wasn't proof of anything. But all other things being equal, EFF has the greater credibility.
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:5, Insightful)
The government has created a martyr.
No, they have created a kook. Anyone that considers mass murders to be "patriots", and thinks that the likes of McVeigh, Stack and Heemeyer are admirable, has lost all credibility. Rather than making the government more accountable, people like this give everyone that opposes authoritarianism a bad name.
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:5, Insightful)
Karl: "Asian Dawn?"
Hans: "I read about them in Time Magazine"
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Agreed.
Now if he named folks like Snowden, Manning, and similar (where folks could actually go "yeah - they uncovered government badness and were whistleblowers", he could have gotten at least some support.
I mean, c'mon: he could have even stopped short and not even named anybody. At first I figured okay, he probably got a bad shake and deserves the compensation for his maltreatment. But nooo... he goes on to let his freak flag fly, and name those dumbasses as his heroes. My thoughts immediately became: "fuck that."
Mind you, the government is still way the hell in the wrong for locking him up if all he did was uncover a security flaw (and didn't sell or exploit it for personal gain), but holy shit...
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No, they have created a kook. Anyone that considers mass murders to be "patriots", and thinks that the likes of McVeigh, Stack and Heemeyer are admirable, has lost all credibility.
actually, mcveigh is a terrorist mass murderer, but stack and heemeyer are fellow kooks and crazies. neither of them killed anybody. stack stole a tank from a military base in san diego and led police on a low-speed chase and crunched several parked cars (no ammunition in the tank). heermeyer had a crazy grudge with the city where he lived, so he bought a bulldozer, "armored it" by reinforcing all sides with concrete and steel, then demolished several city buildings. In both cases, these dudes died (stack k
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:4, Informative)
neither of them killed anybody.
Stack killed one other person besides himself. He seriously injured many more, and intended to kill them.
stack stole a tank from a military base in san diego ...
No he didn't. [wikipedia.org] He crashed a plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas.
You have him confused with Shawn Nelson [wikipedia.org].
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Re:A fifth horseman (Score:4, Insightful)
>> The government has created a martyr.
> No, they have created a kook.
No, they have created a radical [wikipedia.org].
Using the term "martyr" or "kook" is a judgment of merit. I agree with the latter, he's batshit looney, but it's not objective. Casting aspersions is all well and good in the popular media, but aren't we here to try to scratch a little deeper? Fine, he's a shitbag who's trying to get his ten minutes of fame and maybe ought to be back behind bars. But is he really the interesting part of the story in any sense other than lurid sensationalism?
What we sane and self-aware citizens should be asking ourselves is not whether a lowlife deserves to be treated like scum -- of course he does, like terrorists deserve to be assassinated and child abusers deserve to be beaten. The question for us is whether we should do what we did -- not because he deserves better, but because we may have done something that is beneath us.
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...in order to punish assholes, on top of drug users, pedos, terrorists, and hackers.
really??? drug users are in the same class as terrorists and pedophiles?
jesus...with attitudes like this no wonder its so impossible for me to find any work whatsoever.
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:5, Insightful)
How many billions have been spent on the war on drugs?
Clearly someone thinks so. And has for a very long time.
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Yes. Thanks to the War on Some Drugs, the government can steal your property without warrant or due process via Civil Forfeiture: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/... [pbs.org]
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... [wikipedia.org] since it apparently went over about a dozen slashdotter's heads.
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:4, Funny)
So you are saying we need to chose the lesser of the two weevils ? :-)
Clearly they've broken him and... (Score:5, Funny)
..he's now Weev 2.0 - now with added 'crazy'!
Re:Clearly they've broken him and... (Score:5, Interesting)
Prison does that. Americans are so interested in retribution and punishment that they forget what can happen to someone you treat like an animal, particularly given that said person will be released some day. The ironic part is that death row inmates are treated far better.
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Re:Clearly they've broken him and... (Score:4, Informative)
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There's plenty of things wrong with our prison systems. There should be less effort spent on "punishment" and more time spent on education and reform. I'm not talking about Clockwork Orange type of reform; I'm talking about getting these criminals into a class room and teaching them something. Not just the basics like reading, math, and history, but also a trade.
This is critically important. Imagine some guy who had a hard time making a living. He held up a as station at gunpoint to grab a few hundred bucks
Re:Clearly they've broken him and... (Score:5, Insightful)
We need to stop letting sociopaths run our prisons. We should be giving all candidates psychological tests to make sure they're all compassionate people interested in keeping their prisoners safe and rehabilitating them so they can turn their lives around. Of course if you push for this, there are a ton of right-wing lunatics that will embarrass themselves by calling you "a bleeding-heart liberal." It's hard to reform society when many terrible people vote.
Not gonna help. We know now from sociological experiments [wikipedia.org] that the environment turns nearly all the guards into sociopaths. It's a structural problem, not a people problem.
But the most pressing issue with our prison industrial complex is the sheer volume of citizens that are subjected to it. The US has the largest prison population by far in the entire world, both by numbers and proportion of the population. And that is directly attributable to the police-state infrastructure created and perpetuated by the Federal government, just like Weev has stated.
The break-down by states. (Score:3)
The US has the largest prison population by far in the entire world, both by numbers and proportion of the population. And that is directly attributable to the police-state infrastructure created and perpetuated by the Federal government
Now and again the geek needs to be reminded of how federalism really works in the US.
The prison population of the US varies enormously by state. But the states of the desert Southwest and the old Southern Confederacy are right up there --- and it is damn hard to see them following the federal lead on anything.
Here is a small sampling:
Prisoners per 100,000 population
1 Louisiana 867
5 Texas 648
7 Florida 556
14 Virginia 468
20 California 448
39 New York 288
41 Washington 269
48 Massachusetts 200
50 Maine 148
List of U.S. states by incarceration rate [wikipedia.org]
Re:Clearly they've broken him and... (Score:4, Interesting)
Governments should assess the societal cost of each inmate who continues to commit crimes and offer half of that to the prison if the inmate emerges properly rehabilitated, perhaps in lieu of the normal per-inmate payments. This would make the profit motive work for us rather than against us as crime is lowered and our streets become safer.
Of course it might result in prisons wanting to release some murderers early because they've been rehabilitated, and some prisons may even refuse some shoplifters if they think the cost of rehabilitating them outweighs the societal cost of them stealing a pack of gum every once in a while, but would either of these results really be so bad?
As Oscar Willde said to George Bernard Shaw (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah? Well you're a fucking idiot who knows nothing about everything.
Re:As Oscar Willde said to George Bernard Shaw (Score:5, Funny)
That, sir, is a slanderous insult.
I can spell it perfectly well, I just can't fucking type for shit.
Re:Clearly they've broken him and... (Score:4, Insightful)
His reference to solitary confinement caught my attention. There was a recent Frontline on solitary confinement [pbs.org]. It is scary. It is a modern-day dungeon. These guys are so messed up there is nothing to do but lock them up and throw away the key, which messes them up even further. The convicts certainly aren't blameless to begin with, but we are over-doing it. I non-violent hacker (if that's what "weev" is/was) should not be there.
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I totally agree.
I can't imagine a scenario where sensory deprivation does anything other than make things worse. I can understand separating them from the population and taking away privileges, but there should be some basic privileges that you simply don't take away - otherwise you get 'crazy' more often than not (it would seem.)
Re:Clearly they've broken him and... (Score:4, Insightful)
We all know this, but no one cares enough to actually do anything about it...
A government powerful enough to give you everything you need is powerful enough to take everything you have...
That isn't something taught in public schools of course, but it should be...
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I always wondered that with the recidivism rate so high and the cost of housing inmates so high, solving the post-release job/hiring issues by offering employers who employ ex-convicts an annual/monthly tax break for employing them.
At rates of over 70% nationally for many crimes, offering 70% of half of that cost to employers annually would be interesting. Offering them nearly a thousand dollars a month in tax breaks for each convict employed at some specified pay rate...?
Surely, less difficulty in securin
Re:Clearly they've broken him and... (Score:4, Insightful)
That really makes sense. If you're unemployed, instead of getting a job commit a crime, do some time in prison, then decide, ok - now I want to get a job and I bring a tax break, you just have to accept that I'm an ex-con.
Talk about a straw man...
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Bitcoin ? (Score:4, Insightful)
Why Bitcoin and not Dogecoin (or any other e-currency) ?
Bitcoin dwarfs Dogecoin (Score:2, Informative)
1) 28,296 Dogecoin is only worth about $13.
2) He doesn't want government-issued currency because he feels this would be paying into the system that oppressed him, and Bitcoin is the most popular private currency.
3) Dogecoin changed their money supply from fixed to infinite this year, so it's probably not safe enough to store millions of dollars. It's more of a joke/tip currency.
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Why Bitcoin and not Dogecoin (or any other e-currency) ?
My guess would be he wanted to use the one with the most penetration, because his real objective (or at least a simultaneous objective) is to do a little crowdbusking.
As a side note; he may be little more than an irritating troll, but it will be interesting to see where this goes. Think of him as a walking, flaming, honeypot.
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Probably not his favourite word these days.
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Timothy McVeigh (Score:5, Insightful)
Wow.. good role model there.. Timothy McVeigh. I repeat.. Wow.
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weev can get bent.
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No, this [wikipedia.org] is "the unabomber guy." Before they caught McVeigh [wikipedia.org] though I believe it was widely speculated that his crime had been an act of the Unabomber, who had at that time not yet been caught.
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... Which makes weev's invocation of McVeigh ironic, since the Unabomber actually targeted government officials, and McVeigh murdered a bunch of children.
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Re:Timothy McVeigh (Score:5, Insightful)
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Weev always was a piece of shit (Score:5, Insightful)
Just because his conviction wasn't proper, doesn't mean he's not an asshat, or even that he didn't break the law. Note that his conviction was overturned because of the venue (meaning it was tried in the wrong court) not because of a problem with the charge or evidence. Now that's a good thing, the state needs to do everything properly in a trial, and if they fail to do so, the defendant gets to walk. That is a cornerstone of the American justice system.
This is just him showing more asshattery, and a pretty good indication that his time free is likely to be only temporary. Anyone with that level of delusion and self grandeur is likely to do something illegal again, and sooner rather than later, and the state will probably make sure to do everything right the second time around.
Like a friend of mine used to work in the PD's office. He got a client who had been arrested for tagging (graffiti) since a cop stopped him and found sharpie markers in his pockets. The kid had sure as shit been tagging and had used said markers to do it, but the cop hadn't seen that, and had no reason to search him, so my friend got it tossed out. So what happened? Same kid went and tagged again, but this time the cops watched him do it and caught him in the act. The kid was miffed my friend couldn't do anything the second time.
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Yeah, unbeweevable.
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To abuse an old quote, "Get thee to a nuttery!". No, seriously, get this guy some mental healthcare before he does something totally psycho and irrevocable.
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McVey was just stupid enough to be unbelievably lucky, or he was a patsy.
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We'd be a lot safer if only smart people could cause us harm, but stupid people are just as dangerous.
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In case the point was missed, Weev is a well renowned troll.
We have every reason to believe that the whole tirade was a setup to get people on that emotional roller coaster of "YEAH, he's right, the government is totally... wait, what?? Who?"
For the lulz
Re:Timothy McVeigh (Score:5, Informative)
Marvin Heemeyer is the man though..
"Outraged over the outcome of a zoning dispute, he armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it on June 4, 2004, to demolish the town hall, the former mayor's house, and other buildings in Granby, Colorado. The rampage ended when the bulldozer got stuck in the basement of a Gambles store he had previously destroyed. Heemeyer then killed himself with a handgun." (See here [wikipedia.org].)
Truly a 'Merkin hero.
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I would have considered him a hero if he hadn't offed himself, which is certainly a cowardly act. That aside, the rampage itself was as American as you get.
Suicide is generally caused by mental illness. [wikipedia.org] Whether you characterize it as cowardice or not is a philosophical distinction, but portraying the "cowardly act" of a mentally ill person as a correctable character flaw vs. an illness that needs medical attention is unproductive.
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>Even the 'bravest' of men shy away from the thought of hurting themselves.
Yet teenage girls cut themselves all the time
"PAY ME MY MONEY, YOU LYING SUBHUMAN GARBAGE." (Score:3)
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It kind of works for AT&T, Verizon, et. al. They are perhaps slightly more polite "Pay me my money, or else I'll throttle your bandwidth", but the implication that we're subhuman garbage is clear.
Why we can't have nice things... (Score:3)
Weev is ruining it for everyone with his egotistical douch-nozzle approach to this whole thing.
I support *everything* Weev is doing, from a conceptual standpoint.
That's where it ends...this stupid letter shows what happens to a good mind when all other voices are shut out internally.
WE MUST CONNECT WITH OTHER PEOPLE NOT BROWBEAT THEM WITH OUR SUPERIORITY
I mean...if we ever want to win this fight...
Intelligence eclipsed by hate (Score:5, Informative)
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Most of the people claiming to be patriots these days are anything but. It's always selfish, clueless people who are engaging in fantasy role-playing to pretend that they're better than quality people.
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Let's not forget the "patriots" who destroyed others' legal property [wikipedia.org] in protest against their rightful government. What's the difference, anyway?
...the difference is that the patriots of the American Revolution spent a few decades lobbying and writing essays before any violence, pursuing a diplomatic resolution even after the fighting broke out.
In my opinion, patriots don't just promote some message. They stand for and live by the ideals of their country, even if their government doesn't. For an American, t
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Let's not forget the "patriots" who destroyed others' legal property [wikipedia.org] in protest against their rightful government. What's the difference, anyway?
...the difference is that the patriots of the American Revolution spent a few decades lobbying and writing essays before any violence, pursuing a diplomatic resolution even after the fighting broke out.
No, the difference is that nobody got killed by the Boston Tea Party. Also American society mostly backed the Boston Tea Party and its goals. You can't really make that claim that the majority of Americans were sympathetic to the other 3 cited cases. When society says "You're wrong and crazy" that is a difference.
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Stack intentionally flies his plane into a building kill several.
Not several. He hit a break room. He killed himself and one guy who was just getting a cup of coffee.
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His Time May Still Come (Score:2)
That the court overturned the conviction on grounds of improper venue does not prevent the Gub'ment from going after him again in the "proper" venue. If he makes himself enough of a pain, it could be sooner rather than later. Certainly they are watching him closely now.
You owe the state a dime (Score:3)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... [wikipedia.org]
Um... McVeigh a hero? You lost me pal (Score:4, Insightful)
I absolutely detest the state of things right now, the NSA/Snowden revelations, corporations/lobbyists running the gov't, rights being ignored, etc. BUT that said, TImothy McVeigh was a murderer... including 18 children:
Peachlyn Bradley, 3, Oklahoma City
Gabreon D.L. Bruce, 3 months, Oklahoma City
Ashley Megan Eckles, 4, Guthrie
Baylee Almon, 1, Oklahoma City
Danielle Nicole Bell, 15 months, Oklahoma City
Zachary Taylor Chavez, 3, Oklahoma City
Anthony Christopher Cooper II, 2, Moore
Antonio Ansara Cooper Jr., 6 months, Midwest City
Aaron M. Coverdale, 5 1/2, Oklahoma City
Elijah S. Coverdale, 2 1/2, Oklahoma City
Jaci Rae Coyne, 14 months, Moore
Taylor Santoi Eaves, 8 months, Midwest City
Tevin D'Aundrae Garrett, 16 months, Midwest City
Kevin "Lee" Gottshall II, 6 months, Norman
Blake Ryan Kennedy, 1 1/2, Amber
Dominique Ravae (Johnson)-London, 2, Oklahoma City
Chase Dalton Smith, 3, Oklahoma City
Colton Wade Smith, 2, Oklahoma City
Many people are angry and frustrated, but please read those names and ages and tell me again about his 'heroism'?
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While I agree with the sentiment that thinking of somebody like McVeigh as an absolute hero, I don't think the reason for that should be hinging on the fact that children died in the attack. It's a bomb. It's about as non-discriminatory as weapons go.
Assume no children died, would that somehow qualify him as being a hero after all?
What about teenager Cartney McRaven, age 19?
What about Kathy Cregan, Rheta Long, Laura Garrison, LutherTreanor, Olen Bloomer, Calvin Battle, Norma Johnson, Donald Burns Sr., Don
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He attacked a federal building. Or as Obama and Bush say "Collateral Damage".
But I get you, it is only "murder" when it is a foreign terrorist organization, not an American one.
Re:Um... McVeigh a hero? You lost me pal (Score:4, Interesting)
Its not murder when nation states with clearly declared intentions are involved. Its murder when its an individual in a non-combat scenario against unarmed civilians. Its terrorism when its non-governmental organizations with that target civilians.
If you're still not getting it, you may want to re-take that poly sci class.
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Re:Um... McVeigh a hero? You lost me pal (Score:5, Insightful)
I didn't say the adults lives weren't valuable, so don't put words into my mouth. There is NO way an infant or toddler could make ANY choice or cause ANY action that could in any way be a threat to McVeigh. Hence my pointing them out. It's not a prop or news-speak, sorry you're so cynical.
While I don't in any sense condone ANYTHING he did, he could try to argue adults can make choices or actions that in some whacky way he could attempt to rationalize as a threat -- my point of bringing up the kids, is that they had ZERO, absolutely ZERO to do with whatever beef he had in his twisted mind.
The reason to point out the children (Score:3)
Is that there is no way they were complicit in anything.
So the crazy nutball shithead argument for the OKC bombing is something along the lines of the government being evil, the workers in that building being part of some government conspiracy, etc, etc. You can see that kind of bullshit logic in one of the other replies to the grandparent, who talks about "McVeigh's actual targets" and gets all conspiracy nut as though it was the government's fault.
Ok fine, but even if you accept that BS, there's the issue
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So you're saying McVeigh was a hero because collateral damage is acceptable and the building in question was a "legitimate target that just happened to have civilians/kids inside".
I was going to write out a well reasoned argument but honestly the best response is "Are you fucking kidding me?!"
Well... a piece of it...
Whether you agree with McVeigh's politics or no at no point was he at war with the US. By his own admissions this was meant to send a message and is by definition a terrorist act. The blast als
Re:Um... McVeigh a hero? You lost me pal (Score:4)
They were? A lot of them were males old enough to hold a gun, that is good enough to call brown people militants, and murder them in drone strikes. Sorry that turnabout is fair play.
So we should care? (Score:2)
He was convicted of a crime (assuming his guilt was established correctly) and the case was overturned on a 'venue' law, so, why the fck does anyone care about this exactly? That a douche tries to one-up his haters? If I wanted that, I'd read more Rob Ford. That's a guy with actual train-wreck entertainment value.
If I were the Feds (Score:3)
I would agree to pay him, but while negotiating the payment, I would make sure the IRS got word.
Can anyone say "audit".
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Civil awards are not subject to taxes. Sorry.
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You think that when the IRS audits him, they won't find plenty of irregularities in his books. If they even exist?
He could wind up ion the courts for decades.
Don't count your chickens... (Score:2)
He was recently released when a federal court overturned the conviction on grounds of improper venue.
Which means his case can retried elsewhere. He cannot claim "double jeopardy."
if the government fails to produce adequate evidence to prove an element of the crime, then the defendant is acquitted and the government doesn't get another bite at the apple. But this has nothing to do with a conviction being vacated because of a procedural error.
Does Double Jeopardy Forestall Auernheimer's Retrial? [lawtheories.com]
His Rage is Understandable (Score:3)
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it would be no surprise if the government not only categorically refused payment, but retroactively enacted legislation ensuring Weev was guilty
Google "Ex Post Facto" and "Bill of Attainder". Now granted, the US.gov has been using the Constitution (or at least the Bill of Rights), as toilet paper; but even the Roberts court would choke on declaring such legislation Constitutional.
McVeigh?! (Score:2)
And tell me, as an innocent person who got harmed, did you have any time to think about people being harmed when McVeigh murdered them, in spite of them being innocent third parti
Timothy McVeigh (Score:4, Insightful)
was a coward.
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Sorry friend, McVeigh was no coward. If he was so cowardly, he wouldn't have taken the risks he did in the first place and he wouldn't have been as easily caught. He was so anti gov he didn't have plates on the car and if he had any sense or fear he'd have not let such things make him stand out so easily. Besides, given his motives, he was trying to inspire a revolution which if at all successful would have given him an outlet to do more "cowardly" insurgent tactics. He didn't cry like a baby when they ex
Wow, uhm, uh... Jeez... (Score:4, Insightful)
Man, having never heard of this guy before, I was rather sympathetic and thinking "Man, finally a use for all those FBI-confiscated Bitcoins" until that last part about Tim McVeigh... Then all I could think was "Uh...wow, screw this asshat."
i was with him right up until... (Score:4, Interesting)
I was with him right up until he revealed his love of deranged, hillbilly trash like McVeigh. Weev did get a raw deal, but it is worth mentioning that the people in the justice system (that run it) are in fact people, and people (flawed as they are) love seeing assholes (like Weev) get their comeuppance. And given what an asshole he is, I'd say that comeuppance was a long time coming.
But hey, good news for him: He now has a legitimate cause to fight for the rest of his life. If this keeps him from discrediting other causes through his support (this manifesto essentially makes Weev completely toxic to any political activism on any topic, forever, period) then we should consider it a net win.
~$484 per hour! (Score:3)
So I assume he shits out gold bars for a living?