Barrett Brown Quotes
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The truth is that I am a sentient computer program and I fully intend to burn your cities to the ground.
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The less said about my extended family back in ranch country the better, as I don't want the ATF burning them alive.
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Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
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This is not the “rule of law”...it is the “rule of law enforcement.”
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The main point seems to be that I'm arrogant and narcissistic, which should be news to exactly four people.
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What an age of innocence it was, the Watergate era... way back in the halcyon days when the US could be contrasted with totalitarian regimes on matters of surveillance.
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Anyone who dismisses out of hand evidence that U.S. intelligence agencies still do some of the things that they now brag about having done not too long ago is not a skeptic, but a fool.
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The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.
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I, for instance, am a jackass, and this anguishes me quite a bit, or at least it would if I were not so fond of being a jackass, which has long been a hobby of mine.
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I would love to debate any politician in any western state on the question of whether the rule of law ought to be respected in a world where even the most "respectable" governments establish intelligence agencies that routinely violate those laws at taxpayer expense and at no real penalty to anyone involved.
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I am a tremendous optimist for someone who has grown up amid the twilight of American competence.
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We're in a state of conflict with the Government. Either we are going to jail or we're going to win.
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In conclusion, they should let me out of jail.
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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.