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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."
It could mean some serious doo-doo for el presidente.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
No, you're an elected official who is abusing your position.
Also, it's "clamouring" or "clamoring".
Dictators can be elected, altho I can't think of any modern example of this happening.
The ones I can remember right now:
Aleksander Lukashenko
Getulio Vargas
as yes there actually ARE some things, like child porn, that SHOULD be censored, according to ANY ideology
Right! Life is never more complicated than an ultimatum!
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?
Really? ALL the time? ESPECIALLY on slashdot? Lets see two examples. Not half-assed examples that might kinda sorta mean what you say if you looked at them from the most biased perspective, nor examples of people trolling, I want full-ass examples. Gotta be pretty easy to come up with since they happen ALL the time, ESPECIALLY here. Right?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Was your friend's mother shot in the head while riding a bicycle?
In related news, Guatemalan police arrested a twitter user, after he put a message telling people to withdraw their funds from Banrural -the bank involved in the corruption scandal- as a way to protest against these acts. The authorities charged him of "intent to incite financial panic", a crime recently created in order to protect financial institutions from unfounded rumors.
I wish you were right about this. After all evidence is building that the US torture policies have lead to many well documented deaths and have been authorized at the highest level. Yet, that doesn't mean that Bush wasn't elected president (although technically the first time around he may not have been).
Will be interesting to see if there are enough hardcore dead-enders still around on /. to get this modded as flamebait.
In any case, as I understand it, people don't generally commit suicide by getting shot in public while riding their bicycles to work.
Of course, there's always the possibility that they guy knew that SOMEONE was out to get him, but that he was wrong about who it was.
cp /dev/zero ~/signature.txt
Lots of talk about people sharing picture on the net, nothing people prosecuted for producing child porn for money. I want proof that there is a child porn industry. I don't doubt that there are child abusers and I don't doubt that pictures of that are on the net and people are sharing them, but that is a very different thing that an industry producing child porn on demand.
The data in that link is even self contradicting, little example:
"The United States Department of Justice estimates that pornographers have recorded the abuse of more than one million children in the United States alone."
"At any one time there are estimated to be more than one million pornographic images of children on the Internet"
So what is it? Do the child porn producers just make a single photo per child? Sounds kind of unlikely. Seems more the case of inflating data by lack of technological understanding. Internet makes copying easier, it also makes copying child porn easier. That however gives no indication on how many children are actually abused for child porn for money, as most of that stuff either was once legal or produce without any monetary interest.
I am still waiting to have some actual hard numbers on people prosecuted and children freed from the child porn industry.