I don't know if I could have helped him if I had known or understood at the time what was happening.
I didn't mean to be an activist; it all happened so quickly in 2010 that the conglomerate formed and started to dismantle human rights that there didn't seem to be anything else that I could do other than to write "No," all day and every day.
Unlike me, Mr. Swartz didn't publish page after page every year describing the suicidality that the government was causing him, before he died of suicide at 26.
Copyright L. Kochman, June 28, 2016 @ 11:14 p.m.
