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> The full Facebook post, obtained by Bloomberg, contained an anti-U.S. rant calling the government guilty of “immoral and unethical acts.” Is it necessarily a
by mbillie1 12y ago
> The full Facebook post, obtained by Bloomberg, contained an anti-U.S. rant calling the government guilty of “immoral and unethical acts.”
Is it necessarily anti-U.S. to accuse the government of immoral and unethical acts? Surely most of us would agree that the government is guilty of immoral and unethical acts, although political leanings might have us point at different specific acts.
It is concerning that, yet again, we see criticism of the government equated with being "anti-U.S." or somehow traitorous (even if in this case the actions arguably were).
- arjie 12y agoIt's possible they meant that the rant was anti-U.S. and contained those allegations and not that the rant was anti-U.S. because of those allegations.
- __david__ 12y agoYes, the wording is troubling, though it's hard to contest it without being able to read it myself. Is there an unedited copy of his post anywhere online yet?
- polarix 12y agohttp://imgur.com/wClCcYy http://imgur.com/wClCcYy http://pastebin.com/A08VsdDs http://pastebin.com/A08VsdDs
- cmdrfred 12y agoSo I'm gonna smoke this blunt and move on If I was his defence lawyer I'd try to play it off like a big stoned misunderstanding. Whoops dropped my blunt into the server room!
- madaxe_again 12y agoFunny. I observed the same, yet my post above is at -39. Assume I touched a nerve. Don't criticise the government on HN, it won't win you friends.