Re: [Full-disclosure] Open Letter to Lee Vartan, Assistant United States Attorney in regards to the Goatse Security iPad case.

[Christian Sciberras <uuf6429@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's some lawyer you've got there Andrew.
When needs arise, everyone's abruptly religious and walking saints, never
mind what they did.







On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Andrew Auernheimer <gluttony@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Howdy Lee,
>
> I was originally outraged by your recent acts towards persecuting me and my
> associates and extremely shaken up due to an unjust search which is based
> upon multiple violations of the Fourth amendment. I believe that this
> outrage, the emotional stress of being placed in solitary confinement for
> multiple days without cause and previous harassment by the government lead
> me to treat you less respectfully than I should, but as I was at the law
> library (where I usually go for ethical guidance) I started reading some
> Thomas Paine and experienced a revelation in how I should best proceed in
> dealing with you and your actions.
>
> * “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy
> from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent
> that will reach to himself.*” - Thomas Paine, Dissertation on First
> Principles of Government
>
> I’m writing you to help clarify this situation we continue to find
> ourselves in. It appears that despite the obvious facts regarding the case
> you continue to attempt prosecution on me. While information security
> experts world wide (many of whom your department hire as expert witnesses),
> average citizens, law analysis groups and consumer affairs groups continue
> to support me; you seem to still be investigating me for some sort of
> criminal act.
>
> While I am sure that you are probably under a lot of pressure to produce
> something, given that you obtained a secret quasi-legal warrant, have a
> large amount of negative publicity on your office and name, and a growing
> number of people asking why you are doing this. I’m sure that this pressure
> is beginning to wear on your personal and professional relationships, and as
> I am and always have been a supporter of the United States Government, I’d
> like to offer some friendly advice before irreparable damages from your
> actions spread to the rest of the Department of Justice.
>
> There are a few options available to you at this point:
>
> 1. *Continue holding Grand Jury sessions and force an indictment.* I can
> in no way advise this as it will cause harm to your professional reputation,
> and force the Department of Justice towards a path of manufacturing
> evidence. Social responsibility has always been at the core of everything we
> do at Goatse Security, and this will be extraordinarily obvious at a trial.
> Goatse has done large amounts of documented work in the areas of fighting
> havens for pedophiles worldwide, protecting US infrastructure, and keeping
> US citizens safe from Russian and Chinese organized crime. The DoJ has also
> done this, and quite well at times, but we should work together for a common
> goal, instead of fighting each other, and wasting our fiscal and legal
> resources. We do not have a large advertising budget like the DoJ and FBI
> have, and our publicity comes from citizen recognition of national
> stewardship. I hope that you don’t see this as competition to your own great
> work in the area, but we believe that we could both do better.
>
> 2. *Stop this investigation.* Given the vulnerable position you’ve placed
> the DoJ in with these actions, you may be required to resign. I am very
> sorry that this is the position you find yourself in, but there are many
> great opportunities available for you in the private sector, and just
> because you are not getting paid by the government does not mean that you
> will not be able to help make the country a better, safer and healthier
> place for us all to enjoy. We do volunteer work daily, and accomplish this
> in our free time funded by our private sector work. We find this the most
> kind healthy form of patriotism, as it not only allows one to help in areas
> freely, but minimizes bureaucratic costs which we are all bear as brothers
> and sisters in this great nation.
>
> 3. *Publicly accept assistance from Goatse Security.* While the smear
> campaign your agency has launched against this group and me personally may
> make this difficult, I’m sure that fully disclosing the rationale for it
> would grant you and the DoJ forgiveness from the public, as well as from
> myself. As always, we are more then happy to work with you hand in hand
> towards a better country. If you are unable to do this for political
> reasons, we understand, but we would not want you to dishonor your family
> (probably the people who put you through law school) by making choices which
> are wrong but popular. AT&T needs to be held accountable for their insecure
> infrastructure as a public utility and we must defend the rights of
> consumers, over the rights of shareholders.
>
> I pray for you Lee. I pray for you to see wisdom in your actions, and pray
> for you to be guided towards righteousness. I advise you to discuss this
> matter with your family, your friends, victims of crimes you have
> prosecuted, and your teachers for they are the people who would have been
> harmed had AT&T been allowed to silently bury their negligent endangerment
> of United States infrastructure.
>
> Hugs and Courage To You,
>
> Andrew
>
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