Barrett Brown gets five years in chokey plus $890,000 fine

[struggle4progress]

23 Jan 2015 at 04:32
Iain Thomson
... "For the next 35 months, I'll be provided with free food, clothes, and housing as I seek to expose wrongdoing by Bureau of Prisons officials and staff and otherwise report on news and culture in the world's greatest prison system," Barrett said in a statement ...

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ANDREW BUNCOMBE
NEW YORK Thursday 22 January 2015
... Brown was arrested in 2012 after he posted videos and tweets threatening a federal agent who was investigating him. Brown admitted in his guilty plea that he sent online messages threatening to “shoot and injure agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation” ...

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Jan. 23, 2015
... He was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for threatening a federal agent on YouTube and interfering with a federal investigation related to the 2011 hack of the private intelligence firm Stratfor ... “I’m a very monastic individual anyway. I spend a lot of time reading and writing,” Brown told TIME. “People don’t want to be in prison of course but some people benefit from it. Dostoyevsky. Solzhenitsyn. I’m one of those people.”

[Hoppy]

1. Then again, he might just end up with an undiagnosed, fatal disease. Something like

Bacillus Cyaniditus.

Or maybe he will decide to commit suicide, hanging from a rope with his hands tied behind his back.


He better be careful.

[2naSalit]

2. +1

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. Yeah, he probably should make it plainly known to the world at large

that he is not, never has been, and never will be suicidal.

Just so everyone knows that any such 'suicide' is a total lie.

[freshwest]

3. His triumphant philosophical courses may be interrupted by other inmates. Guess he still expects to

play the role of a martyr and a control freak at the same time. Typical Island Libertarian.

Not knowing what kind of place he'll be confined to for 5 years, although he says 37 months, less than 5 years, so they'll be giving credit since he first became 'a guest of the state', whether it's going to be the fabled Club Fed experience he no doubt considers himself worthy of, or something less safe or savory, what he'll get from the experience is speculating.

Do expect he'll be writing a Mein Kampf instead of the works of the great Russian writers he sees himself as being. How noble of him, evoking the delusions of Ayn Rand's Supermen. It's debatable if he will be allowed the peace of the monastic lifestyle. Not everyone there is part of the same cult, and he could possibly end up something more like a fight pit, with him as prey, rather than safely observing. No matter, though, it takes so much strength, courage and integrity to threaten to kill someone, no?

He said all the right wing and Libertarian memes, 'free food, clothing and housing.' So he likely considers himself to be in the Club Fed category of imprisonment. Who knows, he may have connections like a lot of these characters and do easy time...

If he's not going to get Club Fed, he may get injured or catch a disease and won't get adequate health care, as his others of his bent seek to deny others. And the 'free food' may make him sick. Or the lack of sunshine and inability to keep his tan healthy looking. He may be provided with ill-fitting, scratchy 'free clothes.' And a decided lack of silence that monks used to get closer to God. So much for his brag of getting 'free housing' since he won't be the boss of that, will he?

He may have to suffer from a lack of 'free' laptops to enlarge his ego with. Certainly may suffer a shortage of fawning lapdogs, that he has now, but he may make some converts preaching his cult beliefs (Join the Ron/Rand Paul Revolution!) though.

Poor widdle baby.