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Guantanamo Officers Caught Modifying Wikipedia
James Hardine writes "Wikileaks reports that US armed forces personnel at Guantanamo have conducted propaganda attacks over the Internet. (The story has been picked up by the NYTimes, The Inquirer, the New York Daily News, and the AP.) The activities documented by Wikileaks include deleting Guantanamo detainees' ID numbers from Wikipedia, posting of self-praising comments on news websites in response to negative articles, promoting pro-Guantanamo stories on the Internet news focus website Digg, and even altering Wikipedia's entry on Cuban President Fidel Castro to describe him as 'an admitted transsexual' (misspelling the word 'transsexual'). Guantanamo spokesman Lt. Col. Bush blasted Wikileaks for identifying one 'mass communications officer' by name, who has since received death threats for 'simply doing his job — posting positive comments on the Internet about Gitmo.'"
I don't get these flagwavers, the kind that go out and change Wikipedia. My Dad is one of them, and he shouldn't be. He flunked out of an Arkansas community college in the 60s so they sent him to Vietnam. That would pretty much sour me on any country, but there's Dad, still waving the fucking flag and taking off his hat at baseball games. What a douchebag.
I fucking hate my country. And not just because of Guantanamo and this whole "war on terror" nonsense. I hate the fact that we talk about how "free" we are when we've got more of our population in prison than any other country in the world. I hate the fact that someone that robs a bank at gunpoint gets 5 years while someone that downloads dirty pics of a 14 year old gets 3 times that, and yet they still let the local high school cheerleaders hold "bikini carwashes". I thought looking at under age girls was bad? What the hell?
I hate all this mandatory sentencing shit that ties judges hands, I hate the way my employer can declare bankruptcy, stiff me on my last 2 paychecks, and the executives walk away scot-free. If I'm a day fucking late on my credit card bill I've got fuckers calling me on the phone and telling me I'm a deadbeat. Hey, what about the 300K/year CEO that owes me 2 paychecks? Oh no, thats just a failed business, he'll get another high paying executive salary somewhere else, but god, he's no deadbeat.
I got to leave the country for 2 weeks once, I went to a USENIX in Stockholm. Did you know you can walk in the parks at night there? It was fucking amazing. I was WALKING in a park at night and not a single cop tased me or beat me with his nightstick.
Fuck the United States. I hate it here. Go ahead. Call me a pinko. It fucking sucks here, the quality of life is shit, the hypocrisy is intolerable.
fighting for "the free world"... America has lost all of its moral credibility in the world. I'm still looking up to the fathers of your constitution. That's some of the best lines of code ever written. Very, very wise men... Look what you made out of this today, look at who got 50% of your votes at the last election. That's so sad.