Barrett Brown
Barrett Brown is an American activist, author, and freelance
writerfjournalist. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Vanity Fair,
Huffington Post, Businessweek, True/Slant, Skeptical Inquirer and many
other outlets. He has appeared as a guest on MSNBC, Fox News and
Russia Today and as an interviewee in three recent documentary films:
We Are Legion, Future Radicals, and Terms and Conditions May Apply.
He is the founder of Project PM, a distributed think-tank which
researches and reports on matters related to the intelligence
contracting industry. More recently, he has been misrepresented in the
media as a spokesperson for the hacktivist collective known as
Anonymous. He's a co-author on Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern
Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny, and had been
working on additional books, with topics such as the failures of
American media punditry and the early history of Anenymous, while
maintaining a blog. Previously, Barrett had served as Communications
Director for Enlighten the Vote.
Although Barrett had a serious side, he was also noted for his
irreverence and use of humor, satire and hyperbole, demonstrated
through writings for National Lampoon and The Onion and is often
described as a modern-day Hunter S. Thompson.
Having previously been raided by the FBI on March 6, 2012 and not
arrested or charged, on September 12, 2012 Barrett Brown was again
raided and this time arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
while he was online participating in a Tinychat session. He was
subsequently denied bail and detained without charge and adequate
medical treatment for over two weeks while in the custody of US
Marshals. In the first week of October 2012, he was finally indicted on
three counts, related to alleged activities or postings on popular
websites such as Twitter and YouTube,
On December 4, 2012 Barrett was indicted by a federal grand jury on
twelve additional counts related to data from the Stratfor breach.
Despite his lack of direct involvement in the operation and stated
opposition to it, he faces these charges simply for allegedly pasting a
hyperlink online. On January 23rd, 2013 he was indicted a third time on
two more counts, relating to the March 2012 FBI raid(s) on his
apartment and his mother's house.Barrett has pleaded not guilty in all three cases. He is currently
incarcerated while awaiting trial in Mansfield, TX. At this critical time,
with such a prominent internet activist facing an extremely difficult legal
battle and uncertain future, he needs our unwavering help and support.
Barrett's trial begins in April, 2014. His defense is being funded entirely thraugh individual donors.
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