Michelle Malkin:
BOSTON — On the day Boston Children’s Hospital celebrated being named “the number one pediatric hospital in the nation” by U.S. News & World Report, I was interviewing Dana Gottesfeld in nearby Somerville, Massachusetts. Dana is the young wife of Martin “Marty G” Gottesfeld, an imprisoned technology engineer/activist who used his skills to fight against medical child abuse committed at Boston’s Children’s Hospital.
“That is so Boston,” Dana observed Tuesday in response to the new ranking — which is already splashed in multiple gold medallions across the hospital’s website.
It’s all about power, prestige and pull in the top echelons of the Bay State’s medical community, many New Englanders have informed me. BCH’s teaching affiliate is Harvard Medical School. The ties between and among influential and wealthy alumni in the realms of health care, politics and the courts are innumerable.
It’s a network that’s “practically untouchable,” Dana explained.
And like the third rail, those who dare challenge these renowned institutions risk great danger to their freedom and their lives.
Dana’s husband, Marty, faces felony charges of computer hacking and conspiracy related to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in April 2014 against Boston Children’s and the nearby Wayside Youth and Family Support Network residential treatment. Marty had organized a social media army to knock the computer networks of both institutions offline to protest the medical kidnapping of then-15-year-old Justina Pelletier. Hackers from the loose-knit collective, Anonymous, allegedly participated in the campaign. more here
Why am I NOT surprised that this is happening in Boston and the state of Massachusetts!
One of these days a defendent will be sitting in the witness box charged with some sort of hacking crime (be it for good or evil) and will look at his watch and interupt whoever is speaking and calmly say “If you don’t drop all charges with prejudice and free me immediately the lights go out in 10 secs. Everywhere. Ten, nine, eight……”
I don’t know whether what this guy did has a material effect on the case but I wonder whether which nets were downed and whether that had an effect on patient care. His trial will be interesting.
scr_north, Yeah, I agree.
It’s too bad that no one pays attention to this hospital. There are sites devoted to medical kidnapping but no one else wants to talk about that issue.
OMG! I remember Justine: I contributed to her fund. If only the high and mighty had a little honor. So glad M.Malkin is bringing this into the light.
I have never heard of this. the site lists horror stories.
http://medicalkidnap.com/2016/03/02/medical-kidnapping-a-threat-to-every-child-in-america-today/
Thanks Zonga, that was a good read. People w/without children should know what is or can happen. Remember back in 08/09 We were told your children don’t really belong to you.
Here comes that “Village”.