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Comment by FireBeyond

Not sure this warrants a felony charge, but not sure this petition is particularly inspiring either.

Both parties behaved amazingly immaturely. But this petition is a heavily reality-distorted mealy mouthed justification of hand-waving away of what he did. Every action by the other party is blown up "many DDoS activities keeping him out of important business meetings", while the things he did are just hand waved away like so: "Jason decided to play a friendly prank on him in return and performed three twenty minute stress tests on one of Brian’s wifi hotspots" - not sure how one person's actions are a DoS, but another are not).

Hyperbole abounds, too: "Conviction would guarantee the rest of his life to be spent in financial insolvency and as a third-class citizen with fewer rights and only the most unfulfilling employment prospects."

Really, convicted of a felony, you're guaranteed lifetime financial insolvency?

"a conviction would spell the end of his professional career and aspirations to serve the nation's Foreign Service corps as a diplomat."

A little snarky, but I'd wager the State Department is looking for diplomats who'd avoid getting into petty situations like this in the first place...

parent FireBeyond 11 years ago

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