I support his Putting JSTOR documents out in the public. It has always baffled me that scientific research was put behind a lock, key and hefty fee only large institutions could afford. Thus not allowing advances to be widely available [and hindering progress]. I find this a very shocking system that I think is under-estimated, or poorly understood/beyond the care of the average public.

Overall though gonna have to support ~anotalenthack's comment.

I'm Glad that My country (The UK) has told your country where to shove it's extradition treaty.

I think that the pain of losing a child can drive someone to make some extreme claims-- and the indignation of seeing someone treated so cruelly can cause one to overreact.

I also know that this nation follows the golden rule: Whomever has the gold, makes the rules. The perceived severity and extent of punishment for a crime is largely determined by whom is angered by its action.
Call your neighbor a pig and you will not be welcome at his table. Call your king a pig and you will be burned at the the stake, and then in effigy for years to come.

People will love and hate what they are told to; that is our flaw. And nothing will get you put on the list of "enemies" faster than telling the truth. Yes, this man was made an example of. He was prosecuted with an inordinate amount of effort because he as in a position of activism-- his crimes were actually quite irrelevant. His actions were literally nothing but an excuse for those in power to attack him in any way possible.

The same petty games children play in the schoolyard; trying to get others to say something that can be construed as self-damaging, trying to get others to embarrass themselves, trying to convince others that they are "Important" and "Popular", and other inane doldrums are the primary basis of society as we know it. It is the collar by which a human being can be reduced to an obedient herd animal.

If you truly want to oppose such cruelty, don't just get mad. Mad people, especially in large numbers, can do incredible harm to themselves and what they believe in-- especially when they try to serve what they believe in.

No, contrary to popular opinion; you do not fight fire with fire. You fight it with water. When faced with irrational hate, use rational understanding. When told you must act like a monster, act like a person. When told that you have no choice, choose for yourself what you will do-- it doesn't matter WHAT you choose, just make sure it is what YOU decide.
When told you must be indignant because you are being attacked, be forgiving because you know the poor fool doesn't know what they are talking about.

Most of the time when a person throws out an irrational accusation, it isn't because they actually believe the garbage they are spewing, but because they want to hurt the person they are accusing, nothing more. Nothing but simple, petty malice.

When you see a good person be put through hell for no other reasons than to hurt them for caring, and frighten others into NOT caring, don't become the angry, irrational, and confrontational beast that the fools have accused us all of being.

Don't allow the justifiable anger from seeing horrendous acts of cruelty drive you to become what you are accused of being-- that is the goal of the accusers, the liars, the propagandists, and the gossips.

Instead, question your own sacred cows. Remind yourself that you don't know everything. Admit your faults and praise others for their strengths.
Do everything those poor, misguided, and arrogant fools are not capable of.

Do it in front of them, right in their faces. Forgive them for not knowing their own evils. Listen to their twisted and manufactured righteous indignity. Then tell them there is a better way than what they have chosen.

The sheep, fools who claim that those who think for themselves will destroy the world, do not make such claims from actually believing them, but from the DESIRE for it to be true.

The one thing they want more than any other is to live in a small, cold, cruel little world where everything is black and white. They want a world where everyone is miserable because of one obvious, identifiable, evil. They want to be persecuted to the point where they are allowed to strike at that evil with intense fervor and hatred, in the hopes that doing so will magically make the world into a Utopia.
They want a glorious martyrdom.

They have no desire to actually LIVE in a utopia.
They cannot fathom the concept. They cannot even understand the concept of basic happiness. Nor do they care.

They are not evil. They are stupid.
They are not your enemies. They are your neighbors.

They are not what is dragging the human race down. They are the human race.

They want you to show them hatred, and to be too weak to persevere.

Defy them.
Show them compassion, and whether all they can throw at us.