News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program. Parent comment

Re:A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program by rayiner on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @08:13PM (#5865624)
Its not a matter of it being a lesser or greater country. Its the matter of it being a different country. There is no "murder" in the state of nature. Nothing limits our use of force other than our bargaining away that natural ability when we form societies. But the fact that Americans have bargained that away with respect to each other does not mean we have done so with respect to non-Americans not on our soil.
[ Parent | on HN ]
[deleted]
Re:A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program by carbocation on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @09:17PM (#5865833)
Not really. China has the apparatus to apprehend a person such as al-Awlaki. It has nothing to do with greater or lesser.

Emphatically, I am not saying this in defense of the assassination of al-Awlaki, but instead I am saying this because I believe it to be a simple truth that is related to the case.

[ Parent | on HN ]