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Prison would be deeply ironic. He’d like that, I think.
Mr. Barrett is an iconoclast I think
Maybe they’ll issue him a Prisoner ID in hexadecimal. That would be cool.
We should feel priviledged that Mr. Brown has graced the pages of this blog.
I know I do.
I vote international man of mystery. It’s how he’d want to be remembered.
Barrett Brown: In his own mind, he’s “The Worlds Most Interesting Man.”
From a Guardian piece.
Interesting comment from mojo at RSM:
Ah, hubris meet nemesis.
Memories of good times past.
Remember when he was going to embarrass me for calling him a mendoucheous twatwaffle? Epic funny.
My bet goes to “spoiled little asshole”.
When will the government get the fact that ANYTHING can be hacked with enough patience?
DUH!
Did anyone else see the link to this article in the comments at RMS?
What a hipster douche.
I thought BB was saving Tunisia with the Freedom Fighters.
Douchebag indeed, cranky. Internet vandals certainly have grandiose opinions of themselves, don’t they?
He’s too busy pretending to be Vladimir Illych Lenin to get his hands dirty.
I simply can’t imagine how we failed to appreciate his wisdom.
A little OT, but I was just reading Drudge, and it made me wonder: Do the Greeks really like it in their butts, or do they just wish that their dicks reached their assholes?
“We don’t HAVE any money!”
“Tough shit! We want money anyway! Our butts itch, and it’s YOUR fault.”
OMG! OMG! OMG!
Get ready, Amourica! Coming to a neighborhood theater near you, much, much sooner than you and your virgin asshole think.
Just remember, when the time comes. Face Mecca and thank George Soros for your wasted, miserable life. Soros has no problem with a universal colonoscope.
Do you, you illiterate bitter clingers?
(New gun in hand)
In other news, another obnoxious lefty is hoist by her own Twitard.
Oh good Allah, cranky. He is a bigger douchenozzle than any of us could have possibly imagined.
One can only imagine the shrieking if a number of “accidents” happened to Ms Piscatell. Even so, I wish her the best of luck with her panic attacks.
In other news, another obnoxious lefty is hoist by her own Twitard.
Well, except, watch and wait, this whole episode will turn out to be a good career move for the lying scrunt.
Barrett was a heroin addict.
What stellar judgment led him down THAT path?
heroin is very addictive it’s like pie
Brown was prescribed Suboxone, a semisynthetic opioid that is meant to be taken orally, but he had been dissolving the film strips in water and shooting the solution to produce a more satisfying high.
That jackass cannot even tell a simple lie without blowing himself out of the water.
Suboxone is a combination of buprenorphine – the semi ‘synthetic opioid’ – and naloxone. Naloxone is a narcotic antagonist, it directly blocks the action of narcotics at the opioid receptor. In fact it’s primary medical use is to be given via injection to directly counteract narcotic overdose.
What is the stuff doing in a product intended for oral use? It isn’t absorbed when taken orally (gets digested too fast.) It’s only purpose is specifically to prevent abusers from injecting (or snorting) the product. So the product is a way to give addicts a form of narcotic maintenance while protecting them from their own behavioral idiocy. The drug is made in film strip form for observed therapy – to prevent the junkie from ‘cheeking’ the dose for accumulation and later use.
If you dissolve a Suboxone strip, or tablet and inject it you get nothing. If you are a junkie with other narcotics still on board and you inject Suboxone you get thrown into immediate withdrawal.
Barret is such a poseur. A hard working twit of a poseur to be sure, but poseur none the less.
The truly embarrassing thing about this is that all of this information, from the pharmacologic specifics, to the actual knowledge and behaviors of drug abusers, is freely available on-line.
That Barrett, a purported journalist, cannot even research up a plausible story of drug abuse, screams incompetence at his self described core function.
If it was crack instead of H he could be a NT Times writer looking down his nose at all of us sloping foreheads. Wait a minute, that might explain a lot of things – they’re not biased, they are on the nod?
heroin is very addictive it’s like pie
Which is why you’d have to be a total moron to try it the first time.
I predict Barrett Brown will self destruct in a flamboyant and enteraining way.
ThomasD, great response to Brown.
Are you trying to tell me that Barret was pretending to be a junkie? I could believe that, but I’d need to know more. He’s half as clever as he thinks he is, so anything is possible.
I’ve had pie many, many times, and I can take it or leave it. If I had to say, I think I’m pie-free since Christmas. Should I be looking for my 6 month chip?
Natalie Zea is so awesome.
All-American PIE~!
Callie Thorn too.
Pablo, I guess I’m just not explaining the concept well. Barret claims to have been injecting dissolved Suboxone “to produce a more satisfying high.” The facts regarding the nature and function of the active ingredients contained within Suboxone render that purported outcome highly improbable if not frankly impossible.
When you inject a dissolved dose of Suboxone you are injecting yourself with either 0.5 mg or 2 mg of naloxone (the product comes in two dosage forms.) Injected naloxone is a potent narcotic antagonist. That is the fancy pharmacology term for something that blocks stimulation of a receptor (the fancy term for something that stimulates a receptor is – you guessed it – an agonist.)
When a person shows up in the ER suffering from a heroin overdose naloxone is exactly what is used to reverse the effects of the heroin.
So, the amount of naloxone present in a dose of Suboxone is more than enough to counteract the narcotic agonist action of the other active ingredient, buprenorphine, which is a much less potent agonist than heroin. The product was designed to be exactly so.
Not only would injecting the stuff ‘not work’ but, in the case of a true junkie, it could reverse whatever residual narcotic effect was still present – throwing that person into frank withdrawal that could last anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour. Any real junkie would quickly learn that injecting dissolved Suboxone is a terrible idea. Anybody with a paying gig looking to get high can (and would) score better.
Perhaps, like any good fishing story, there is some truth involved. Maybe he has tried heroin, maybe he’s even gotten himself a prescription for Suboxone, maybe he’s even snorted or injected it. But ultimately he is practicing a degree of deception that is obvious to anyone with real knowledge or experience in the subject.
Descriptive of so many in the journalism and political areas.
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Most of the people who could verify this for me are dead from a heroin od.
No. really.
Oh, no. You did a fine job of it, Thomas. Barrett is bullshitting…again. I just wanted to verify, for what I’m not sure.
He’s still around? Why?