Private Manning’s Humiliation

There's an article every day on hacker news about violations of people's rights in the United States. Yesterday it was about the FBI using gag orders to illegally get information about citizens. Today it is Obama violating the US constitution.<p>What are you going to do about it? What can you do about it? If it's not happening to you, or you don't know about it, you don't care. If it is happening to you, you're powerless to stop it. That's the genius of the whole thing.

the public is easy to sell on the necessary torture performed outside of the country and only to obvious terrorists. Next step is moving it closer, onto the country's soil and performed on a citizen, though still an obvious public enemy. Next steps to continue.

Thanks for posting this.

how will/should obama respond?

Why isn't this on the front page given the number of upvotes it's gotten (12 in 32 minutes?).<p>Yet this is?<p><pre><code> Show HN: New Fwix Local API (from the team at Fwix) 4 points by goo 56 minutes ago | flag | 1 comment</code></pre>