Today, Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to ten years in prison. It is important to remember why this young man, a long time Chicago activist, will be deprived of his liberty for the next decade of his life. Natasha Lennard explains how Jeremys actions inarguably served the public interest: It is indeed in the public interest to know that Dow Chemicals paid a private security firm to follow and low-level harass individuals fighting for recognition and restitution for the Bhopal disaster; it is of public interest too that the Coca Cola company employed Stratfor to spy on PETA activists, that the Department of Homeland Security used the firm to spy on Occupy activities. These details all came out of the Stratfor hack. Our context is such that the intelligence firm’s activity is supported and upheld by the law, Hammond’s work to reveal it is punished with a ten year sentence.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:44:48 +0000
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