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I try to give the US the benefit of the doubt occasionally to keep myself from forming a bias against them as my list of reasons to despise the country (NOT the
by franga2000 7y ago
I try to give the US the benefit of the doubt occasionally to keep myself from forming a bias against them as my list of reasons to despise the country (NOT the people) seems to just keep growing.
And I do understand why the government won't just release him, but if everyone in the world knew about this, releasing him wouldn't do that much harm (everyone would have already seen the failure) and would actually be brilliant PR for whoever does it. But then again, that would require people and especially media that actually care and have a longer attention span than 30 seconds, which seems rather far from achievable right now.
- cstross 7y agoIt's almost a textbook case of institutional failure -- multiple interlocking institutions took a remediable mistake (the first arrest) and doubled-down on it. Almost as if the failures are an emergent property of the institutional architecture. (This being HN, we see this sort of thing discussed wrt. failing startups or larger corporations, but seldom so brutally and clearly with governments -- although the moderators' policy on political discussions is necessary if only to prevent HN turning into a permanent floating firestorm of flame wars.)