BREAKING NEWS: Anonymous' Barrett Brown is Free - New Short Documentary From Alex Winter Shares Release From Prison

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After serving 4 years in federal prison, Barrett Brown has been released. Brown is known for his journalism and activist work with Anonymous.

Brown was facing over 100 years in prison with a long list of charges from federal law enforcement due to his activism with Anonymous.

The crime that Brown was convicted of was his form of real journalism exposing nefarious activities of those in power - the existing order.

Currently, he still faces 6 months of house arrest, two years of probation and owes over $800,000 in restitution fees.

Recently speaking to the Wire, Brown said, "I’m very much in favor of further leaks and hacks against select targets, those institutions we believe are engaging in crimes with the complicity of our government."

Brown’s crime, it’s worth noting, was never actual theft of information from Stratfor—he was always closer to a public relations spokesperson for Anonymous than one of its hackers. Nonetheless, the Justice Department in 2012 accused him of sharing a link to an already-stolen trove of information from Stratfor to other members of a Project PM chatroom. That trove also included, unbeknownst to Brown, credit card data for thousands of the company’s customers. (Brown was more focused, for instance, on the Stratfor emails that showed the group had spied on victims of the deadly 1984 Bhopal toxic gas disaster on behalf of Dow Chemical.)

For sharing that link, the FBI raided Brown’s home and seized his computers. When prosecutors went so far as to threaten his mother with obstruction of justice for hiding his laptops in her kitchen cabinet, Brown posted a somewhat unhinged YouTube video threatening to launch his own personal investigation into FBI agent Robert Smith, to “ruin his life and look into his fucking kids.” (Brown blames the threats on a manic episode brought on by withdrawal from his anti-depressant Paxil as well as heroin, an addiction he’s been fighting for years.)

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Relatively Free

Just released today, a short documentary created by director Alex Winter and his production company Field_of_Vision filmed Brown's release from prison:


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     8 years ago 

    Saw the video of is release and I almost cried with happiness, and because he should be an example for all the anarchist-freedom-fighters
    Definitely Barry Brown is one of my heroes in the *"conspiracy" of "crypto" "source-code" "anons" against the "Old World Order"
    More recently the "blockchain" and his creators and users are the most powerful gun we ever had in hands to defeat the state, politics, oligarchies and all pyramidal centralized systems of this kleptocracy called democracy

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    Well said @charlie777pt. I couldn't of said it better. I have a REALLY good feeling that we're about to see the most interesting of times.

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