By consensus of the contributors to the HN community who have been most honored with karma by their fellow participants (I asked them once), political posts like this really don't belong on Hacker News. The guidelines<p><a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a><p>specifically say, "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic," and this story has definitely been covered on TV (it BROKE on TV) and has been widely reported and discussed online already.