] "Even now I still don't fully understand the
] charges against me. I don't even have a copy of the
] complaint, and don't have a lawyer that has
] explained the specific charges to me."

Here is the actual interview with Parsons. You can basically see someone who has a normal life, is about to start school, and is suddenly getting fucked up the ass by a country full of raving lunatics who are holding him responsible for Blaster and SoBig, neither of which he is actually responsible for. He doesn't get that large numbers of people are calling for him to go to prison for a decade. It just doesn't make any sense to him. It wouldn't to you either. It doesn't to me. But I won't be surprised if it happens.

This person did NOT write the blaster worm. He is NOT responsible for the damage caused by the blaster worm. And yet every major news story about him has waxed on for paragraphs about the damage caused by the blaster worm. This interviewer went further and told him that the American public thinks he is responsible for all the trouble they are having with their email! Sobig is even further removed and bears absolutely no relationship to what this person did whatsoever.

The fact is that this person may go to prison for a decade. That thousands are calling for exactly this. The media and the FBI have intentionally deceived the public into associating this person with Blaster in the same way that they deceived the public into associating Iraq with 911. And all of this so that the media companies can post more revenue for this quarter and so that Ashcroft can claim a political victory. That is 100,000 times more sinister then anything that this person is actually guilty of.

Parsons ought to be punished, but so should the press. He ought to file slander charges against all of the major media outlets.