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Winning battles like this doesn't mean much as long as whistleblowers are thrown in jail and ignored by major US media outlets.
by aaron_m04 12y ago
Winning battles like this doesn't mean much as long as whistleblowers are thrown in jail and ignored by major US media outlets.
- HCIdivision17 12y agoBut it means significantly more than nothing. Incremental improvement matters, and each success paves the next step toward the big important goals. There isn't a magic switch to just flip this enormous machine on its head. It's a crude, long, and brutal slog beating back the nonsense and cruft built up allowing such personal liberty injustices, and this is just another step. You can't protect whistleblowers if you can't know about them or the reasons they were thrown in jail. This is a step to getting that information and working on a legal vaccine. (IANAL, but I am a cautious optimist.)
- junto 12y agoOne small step at a time. The Berlin Wall was not felled by bombs and guns, but the slow attrition of wall by the will of the public (and mistake over travel permissions by a civil servant). ;-)