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YouTube Video Sends Guatemala Into Crisis
Several have sent word that a YouTube video of recently assassinated lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg has sent Guatemala into a tailspin. The video of Rosenberg claims that if you are watching, he has been murdered by President Alvaro Colom with help from presidential secretary Gustavo Alejos. "The video spread across the Internet after family members handed it out during Rosenberg's funeral on Monday. In the 18-minute tape, a seemingly calm Rosenberg, sitting behind a desk and microphone, alleges that Colom, the First Lady and two associates were involved in murder, corruption and money laundering. The group, he says, filtered public funds through a state-owned bank for personal gain and to finance drug traffickers. Rosenberg then claims that after Khalil Musa, a prominent businessman and bank board member, had learned of the Coloms' scheme, Musa and his daughter were shot to death in front of a shopping center in April. Rosenberg says the President signed off on the killings."
from the most liberal dutchman to the most conservative saudi
censoring child pornography is nothing remotely like censoring political speech
and if country A censors child pornography, while country B censors political speech, they are not anywhere near comparable
and yet you see people all the time, especially on slashdot, actually saying "country A censors child porn so how can it criticize another country for censoring political opinion?"
they can, and they should, and they are perfectly entitled too
as yes there actually ARE some things, like child porn, that SHOULD be censored, according to ANY ideology
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
They should just say it wasn't murder it was an enhanced censorship technique. They could claim they ran it by their attorney general and he thought it was legal. Then they could form a truth commission to get to the bottom of it and have a long political circus until something else (Maybe some sort of donkey flu) came along to catch the public's attention.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
The only reason people aren't willing to believe it's the president is because the president is a left-winger. Leftists, despite their rhetoric of "equality" and such, strongly support their "dear leaders" as they view them as paternalistic figures giving them free stuff.