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Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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I hate feeling completely powerless in these kinds of situations. All I can do short of flying to Syria and taking up arms against such tyranny is upvoting this post. Absolutely pathetic. Update: The least we can do: http://www.amnestyusa.org/get-involved/take-action-now/syria...

I think, in this case, bribing will work better than taking arms in Syria. The problem is finding all the people you need to bribe and engage in a conversation.

Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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I hate feeling completely powerless in these kinds of situations. All I can do short of flying to Syria and taking up arms against such tyranny is upvoting this post. Absolutely pathetic. Update: The least we can do: http://www.amnestyusa.org/get-involved/take-action-now/syria...

You are not powerless. You are never powerless. Your mind is the most powerful thing on the planet. Finding your power rests in realizing that.

Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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I hate feeling completely powerless in these kinds of situations. All I can do short of flying to Syria and taking up arms against such tyranny is upvoting this post. Absolutely pathetic. Update: The least we can do: http://www.amnestyusa.org/get-involved/take-action-now/syria...

How much money have you got? Maybe the HN community can scrape together a few million to pay a private military contractor to go in and "bail him out"?

Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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post #32
post #2

I hate feeling completely powerless in these kinds of situations. All I can do short of flying to Syria and taking up arms against such tyranny is upvoting this post. Absolutely pathetic. Update: The least we can do: http://www.amnestyusa.org/get-involved/take-action-now/syria...

You are not powerless. You are never powerless. Your mind is the most powerful thing on the planet. Finding your power rests in realizing that.

How do I use that to stop this person's death? 1) Realize power of mind. 2) ???? 3) Stop execution.

Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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There is no indication that the sentence has been carried out, AFAICT. The black ribbon on the homepage is premature.

The current black ribbon is due to Gene Amdahl's death.

Oh, right, I just noticed it farther down on the page. :(

Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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Yeah, honestly, its shit like this other countries should go to war over. The United States was founded on free speech, not just having it, but spreading that ideal everywhere. FOSS is free speech. We dropped bombs on Iraq for non-existant WMDs, and invaded Afghanistan over a CIA agent that was living in Pakistan, yet we won't do anything to an out of control government bent on destroying what little society it has l…

American allies in the Middle East are Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel. We don't care about human rights in the Middle East; we prop up horrible administrations there and shield them indefinitely. Why you think elite concerns like free speech and open source software should be a special case is beyond me.

Funny that you mention those three countries in one breath like that.

Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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post #35
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are not powerless. You are never powerless. Your mind is the most powerful thing on the planet. Finding your power rests in realizing that.

How do I use that to stop this person's death? 1) Realize power of mind. 2) ???? 3) Stop execution.

We can try to stop deaths of this type.

Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death

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post #2

I hate feeling completely powerless in these kinds of situations. All I can do short of flying to Syria and taking up arms against such tyranny is upvoting this post. Absolutely pathetic. Update: The least we can do: http://www.amnestyusa.org/get-involved/take-action-now/syria...

Yeah, honestly, its shit like this other countries should go to war over. The United States was founded on free speech, not just having it, but spreading that ideal everywhere. FOSS is free speech. We dropped bombs on Iraq for non-existant WMDs, and invaded Afghanistan over a CIA agent that was living in Pakistan, yet we won't do anything to an out of control government bent on destroying what little society it has l…

Once more into the quagmire? Fuck that.
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