What kind of sentence is the government asking for and how have they overreached? The government wants Brown to serve the maximum sentence possible under his plea agreement, which is a full 8 ½ years. See the factual resumé for specific details of the conduct constituting the offenses. They are seeking to punish him for the criminal activity of all of Anonymous, who they say are a criminal organization. They are even using the fact that he linked to information hacked from Stratfor – charges which were dropped in March 2014 – as relevant conduct that he should serve more time for. Incredibly, the prosecutors absurdly maintain that Brown is not an actual journalist, despite the fact that he’s worked solely as a writer and began receiving payment starting in his teenage years for a wide variety of journalistic assignments, having more recently contributed to the Guardian, Huffington Post, Vanity Fair and others, has authored two books, appeared in the media as a commentator, currently publishes a column with D Magazine, and has received support from Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Free Press, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Freedom of the Press Foundation, among others. Prosecutors and/or the FBI have also: written that Brown, along with Anonymous, sought to overthrow the U.S. government tried to seize funds that were raised for his legal defense obtained a gag order against the defendant and his lawyers restricting what they could say about the case for several months sought to identify contributors to a website where Brown and others dissected leaks and researched links between intelligence contractors and governments pursued a case against Brown’s mother, who was forced to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for obstruction, resulting in six months probation and a $1,000 fine argued that he should not be allowed to criticize the government, his First Amendment right federal agents seized the Declaration of Independence from his apartment as evidence against him used a retweet of a quote from Fox News commentator Bob Beckel threatening Julian Assange – “a dead man can’t leak stuff” – and attributed it to Brown within his indictment as threatening
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 06:31:54 +0000
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