We Don’t Need to Redeem the Reputations of Johns — We Need to Tell the Truth About Them
Facing his sentence, Zitars committed suicide on August 22nd. Brown quotes his lawyer, Zachary Wagnild, who says:
“I can’t pretend to know everything that contributed to Sigurd’s decision. However, I know that he had lost a lot of family members over the last few years and that being falsely portrayed as an unfeeling, exploiter of women was very painful for him.”
Brown eulogizes Zitars through quotes, implying that attempting to hold this man accountable killed him. Brown quotes an anonymous co-defendant, who claims Zitars “was ‘guilty’ of nothing more than exercising his First Amendment rights by running a public online discussion forum — without any financial gain.”
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