Unless he engaged in autoerotic asphyxiation, Aaron Swart killed himself on purpose by hanging. Since he lived in Brooklyn, his use of a rope prevented one more senseless gun death.<\/p>\n
Since you probably have no idea who he was (I didn’t), he was one of these 20 something Occupy type people – born with the gift from God of being a brilliant computer programmer – who decided his purpose in life was to fight for “social justice”, meaning that there is no need for property rights, and “information was meant to be free”.<\/p>\n
In that spirit, he allegedly downloaded millions of journal articles from a subscription service named JSTOR. His apologists describe this act as a “victimless crime”, with which the owners of the copyrights and the US government strongly disagree. He was about to go on trial for his actions.<\/p>\n
An interesting note – he will be buried where his parents live, in Highland Park Illinois. Highland Park is where the top 1% of the top 1% live. The mean (average) family income is $158,000 and the town is 91% non-Hispanic whites.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Highland_Park,_Illinois<\/p>\n
Highland Park is close to and demographically very similar to Glen Ellyn, the childhood home of Weather Underground co-founder and Barack Obama advisor William Ayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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