If I thought I was breaking a story by going to Georgia last week, I was mistaken. More and more are learning about this young veteran, and supporting Stand with Reality. You should check out that page and bookmark it, especially during this lag time between last week and Winner’s trial. There’s also an active Facebook page and multiple Twitter hashtags, including #Justice4Reality and a #Tweetstorm that last week garnered 22 million views. Winner’s mom, Billie, then broke multiple hearts by going on “Democracy Now”:
That segment also contained the invaluable perspective of Kevin Gosztola of Shadowproof, whose revelations I mentioned in the previous post.
I’ll end this one with some notes from the page on which I had started to write about last week’s hearing, before I was informed I couldn’t bring it into the courtroom: Augusta, GA is in some ways a typical military town, wide highways surrounding a downtown of red brick buildings. The hotel I’m staying in is mostly inhabited by weekly and monthly residents; behind me, a common terminal, a quiet young woman is paying bills. We’re close to Fort Gordon, but the feel is less military than melancholy Middle America. At the reception desk, a lovely woman of South Asian descent speaks quick Hindi (?) into the phone.
I hope to return to that town (if not to that particular hotel). It did, and does, feel an oddly appropriate gateway into that world where “Cyber Excellence” means not cute cat pics and FaceTime but information warfare.
I Ain't Marching Anymore 