Private Manning’s Humiliation (opens in new tab)

(nybooks.com)

17 pointsitistoday14y ago16 comments

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There's an article every day on hacker news about violations of people's rights in the United States. Yesterday it was about the FBI using gag orders to illegally get information about citizens. Today it is Obama violating the US constitution.

What are you going to do about it? What can you do about it? If it's not happening to you, or you don't know about it, you don't care. If it is happening to you, you're powerless to stop it. That's the genius of the whole thing.

VladRussian14y ago

as long as there are people who is ready to perform the acts of violation of rights or torture, it will go on. "Nothing personal, just doing my job" is a lie. It is always personal. The people doing it are enjoying the power over their subjects. It is human nature. You'd see it the moment you understand that any "inhumane" behavior is a behavior exhibited only by humans.

VladRussian14y ago

the public is easy to sell on the necessary torture performed outside of the country and only to obvious terrorists. Next step is moving it closer, onto the country's soil and performed on a citizen, though still an obvious public enemy. Next steps to continue.

dpatru14y ago

Thanks for posting this.

husein1014y ago

how will/should obama respond?

itistodayOP14y ago

Why isn't this on the front page given the number of upvotes it's gotten (12 in 32 minutes?).

Yet this is?

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mkr-hn14y ago

Because mob rule would turn HN into a reddit without the option to remove mob strongholds from view.

itistodayOP14y ago

That this story is being silenced out in so many places... blows my mind. HN should be ashamed to participate in the censorship.

The President of the United States is blatantly violating the Constitution (in one of the worst ways), and nobody cares.

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itistodayOP14y ago

BTW, HN has already turned into reddit, and the fact that this didn't make it to the front page is further evidence of that.

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sudonim14y ago

VladRussian14y ago

dpatru14y ago

Thanks for posting this.

husein1014y ago

how will/should obama respond?

itistodayOP14y ago

Why isn't this on the front page given the number of upvotes it's gotten (12 in 32 minutes?).

Yet this is?

  Show HN: New Fwix Local API (from the team at Fwix)
  4 points by goo 56 minutes ago | flag | 1 comment

mkr-hn14y ago

Because mob rule would turn HN into a reddit without the option to remove mob strongholds from view.

itistodayOP14y ago

That this story is being silenced out in so many places... blows my mind. HN should be ashamed to participate in the censorship.

The President of the United States is blatantly violating the Constitution (in one of the worst ways), and nobody cares.

1 more reply

itistodayOP14y ago

BTW, HN has already turned into reddit, and the fact that this didn't make it to the front page is further evidence of that.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse