On: Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy

[peterashford]

Yeah, us New Zealanders have kidnapped lots of US citizens and handed them over for torture in opposition of own laws. We've established an overseas prison explicitly to hold people who would have rights if we imprisoned them locally.

But, you know, it's cool : all states do the same thing.

[dnautics → peterashford]

don't be so smug. It almost happened, with kim dot com.

[peterashford → dnautics]

Kim was kidnapped by NZ, really? I must have missed that.

[mkramlich → dnautics]

Though one could argue there is a big difference between "actually has and is continuing to be so" and "almost, maybe, kinda, sorta"

[dnautics → mkramlich]

unquestionably, and to their credit the New Zealand authorities brought an end to the farce in a timely fashion. But, the statistics of small numbers can be deceptive. Certainly, in the US, plenty of farcical prosecutions are halted, but there are also plenty of counterexamples. And the population of the US is nearly 100x the population of new zealand.