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Aaron's suicide: System Contributed, Society Perpetuated (jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com)
20 points by kogir on Jan 19, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Ask yourself, are political appointees selected on their careers merits or on the basis of their political clout? Bzzz. Sorry, trick question. The answer is already on US Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s very own wikipedia entry. Says it right there in the second sentence, immediately after her title. "In 2009, she was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama. Ortiz is both the first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as U.S. attorney for Massachusetts."

Unless you count being born a women and hispanic as an accomplishment, the answer is plain as day. Make the boss man look good!

Flagged. There are lots of good articles that discuss the various issues and injustices involved with Swartz's case. This is not one of them.




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