Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
1–10 of 55 posts
Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
#2I 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...
Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
#3I 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 left and is a legitimate threat to national security.
Fuck that.
Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
#4I 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...
Hey, no one is without powers. Ours are very limited in situations like that, but amnesty international usually provides a set of honoraries that can be addressed in situations like that, as well as in depth information about the case, in this case: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/2603/2015/en/
Of course, writing someone is useless most of the time, but within the powers we all have is also the power to create awareness for a situation of massive injustice.
Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
#5I 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...
Hey, no one is without powers. Ours are very limited in situations like that, but amnesty international usually provides a set of honoraries that can be addressed in situations like that, as well as in depth information about the case, in this case: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/2603/2015/en/ Of course, writing someone is useless most of the time, but within the powers we all have is also the power to cr…
Millions of people being aware of Khartabil's situation doesn't mean anything if he's executed. Preventing that is the goal. It cannot be accomplished without force, or threat of force, or some other form of pressure that only world governments have the capacity to apply. And we are not any of those.
Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
#6I 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'm probably going to get downvoted a lot for this, but this is probably the exact feeling people on the other side get that causes them to go to Syria and take up arms and join isil.
Edit: To be 100% clear, I'm by no means sympathizing. Rather, I believe that understanding an adversary's motivations can help resolve a conflict.
Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
#7I 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…
How is Syria a legitimate threat to national security of the US? (not rhetorical)
Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
#8I 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'm probably going to get downvoted a lot for this, but this is probably the exact feeling people on the other side get that causes them to go to Syria and take up arms and join isil. Edit: To be 100% clear, I'm by no means sympathizing. Rather, I believe that understanding an adversary's motivations can help resolve a conflict.
Quick, edit out the preemptive complaint so you can see what people think about what you say instead of what they think about the whining.
Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
#9Does anyone know what specifically he was accused of doing?
If he had ties with Western intelligence his detention is understandable (I don't support death penalty in this case, nor Assad, and it would be cool if they released the guy to the West, I'm only saying it's understandable if he was active in opposition spheres). Just because a person is a "hacker" doesn't mean they weren't involved in trying to violently overturn Assad's government.
Re: Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, no one is without powers. Ours are very limited in situations like that, but amnesty international usually provides a set of honoraries that can be addressed in situations like that, as well as in depth information about the case, in this case: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/2603/2015/en/ Of course, writing someone is useless most of the time, but within the powers we all have is also the power to cr…
Millions of people being aware of Khartabil's situation doesn't mean anything if he's executed. Preventing that is the goal. It cannot be accomplished without force, or threat of force, or some other form of pressure that only world governments have the capacity to apply. And we are not any of those.
We (the people) should probably be at least one of the governments.
I don't know how these decisions are actually made, but I would think there'd be at least one government with one military team that would willingly rescue him.
If anyone is in the military, what's the feeling when these kinds of things happen? It seems like there should be brave people volunteering for those kinds of rescue missions where someone really needs their help.