While we sit and whine about whether the NSA looks at "kitteh" attachments

[Dreamer Tatum]

...Syria GASSED its own people, killing what is claimed to be HUNDREDS.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE97K0EL20130821


Not seeing much coverage of that here.


(I get called an NSA apologist by some meathead in 3...2...1...)

[JI7]

1. do you think we should finally arm the opposition ?

[Dreamer Tatum]

2. I'm sure we already have. nt

[Fumesucker]

3. Perambulation and mastication

Some of us can accomplish both simultaneously.

[Dreamer Tatum]

4. Wait...hang on...ah yes, zero is the number I was looking for.

ie, number of threads about Syrian atrocities on DU.

[villager]

6. "Zero" as in this post from LBN?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014571254

[Fumesucker]

8. Something is stopping you from posting a thread about Syria? n/t

[villager]

9. Easier to whine about 4th Amendment supporters, than to simply go ahead and post

It's pure flamebait.

[morningfog]

11. I tried, not much attention was given.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023503399

[leftynyc]

19. Will your self righteousness

allow you to apologize for being wrong about threads on Syria. There were several this morning. Don't get me wrong - I also am sick of so many important things going by the wayside while we wring our hands over the NSA but I don't accuse the entire board of ignoring them.

[villager]

5. So... supporting the 4th Amendment precludes knowing about Syria?

Trying to decide if that's intentional surrealism, or perhaps intentional obfuscation...?

[peace13]

7. I wonder where the gas was manufactured?

Did we sell it to them?

[ljm2002]

10. So that being the case...

...why make the gassing in Syria take second place to the NSA in your own post? Your post's title is a provocative one, clearly doing a little meta analysis about the many NSA threads here. You COULD have made a post about the Syria gassing, without bringing another topic into it. Then you would be practicing what you preach. Since you chose to make the Syria situation secondary in your own post on the matter, I think I'll demur when you try and lecture the rest of us on the topic.

[leftstreet]

14. +1

What you said!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

12. You wouldn't run the risk of being called an apologist had you not gone out of your way

...to connect the Syria story with NSA. If you want to talk about Syria, do so. If you want to talk about the NSA, do so. If you want to conflate the two matters, expect to hear something about it.

[liberal_at_heart]

13. We have major issues with wages, education, SS, health care, and many other issues.

We can pay attention to more than one issue at a time.

[frazzled]

17. Except many are singularly focused on this one issue

I think that is what the OP is trying to say.

Minimally, it is taking up the most real estate on this board, by a long shot. A very long shot. Maybe it's a small coterie, but they're unusually loud and vocal.

[liberal_at_heart]

18. maybe that's because Manning's sentence was today. I see lots of other threads dealing with

health care, minimum wage, marijuana, and even threads that don't have anything to do with politics. If someone doesn't want to see the Manning threads or the NSA threads they can tell the site to auto trash those threads.

[frazzled]

20. Well, it's been top o' the boards for weeks

And, at least for me, personally, hiding or trashing threads is not the answer. That's like putting your head in the sand to me. I think it's important to understand where people's heads are. And just as important for other people to be able to openly say, "get your head in a saner place," if that is their opinion.

[liberal_at_heart]

21. well then you have to be able to accept that people are free to make as many threads about an issue

as they want. After the Sandy Hook shooting this place was nothing but people arguing over gun control, and even the adminstrators said it was perfectly fine for there to be as many threads on that one subject as people wanted to write.

[DefenseLawyer]

15. This is really your defense of warrantless searches?

Syria gassed its own people? Well it's as good as any I suppose.

[HappyMe]

16. *sigh!*

Horrifying.