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You stood up for your country, then the government hurt you so bad, that you were taken to the hospital, the government then came to the hospital, took you from
by galenko 13y ago
You stood up for your country, then the government hurt you so bad, that you were taken to the hospital, the government then came to the hospital, took you from there, proceeded to undress and torture you. They then threw you out on a cold field to die (it's -14C there).
That vs.
Walking down the road, boom, a lot of me is missing, shock, I'm gonna die, ouch, ouch, dead.
I know which way I'd prefer to go if it was down to these two choices.
- hobbes 13y agoThe choice you are making between different ways of dying has nothing do to with the point being made.
- gfodor 13y agoAnd the point being made has nothing to do with the protests in Ukraine.
- LekkoscPiwa 13y agoHowever, it is shocking that in America governed by a Nobel Peace Prize Winner we do things that put us on the level of Ukrainian Government, i.e. killing your own citizens without trial based on President's "gut feeling". Disgusting.
- rayiner 13y ago> Walking down the road, boom, a lot of me is missing, shock, I'm gonna die, ouch, ouch, dead. More like, hide out in Yemen for 10 years organizing violent jihad against the United States and protecting Al Qaeda members from the Yemeni government, then walking down the road... It's tremendously demeaning to political protestors in Ukraine to compare their situation to people like Al Awlaki.
- galenko 13y agoI'm sorry to say, no one on the ground is worried about a demeaning post made on HN, I happen to know a little about what it's like, as a lot of my family lives in and around Kyiv and several of them have been lucky to get out of the protests with non life-threatening injuries only. Others we can't get hold of. Feelings are a little irrelevant right now.
- mercurial 13y agoI'm annoyed at myself for feeding this thread which has really nothing to do with the Ukrainian situation, but you make it sound like drone strikes only hit terrorists. I'm sorry, but you've been fed the wrong narrative. Take, for instance, this extract from [1]: An estimated 286 to 890 civilians have been killed, including 168 to 197 children. I'm not saying that it's done on purpose, and intent does matter when considering responsibility. But unfortunately, intent makes little difference to the dead. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan