<story><title>Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death</title><url>http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2015/11/13/urgent-reports-.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corndoge</author><text>I hate feeling completely powerless in these kinds of situations. All I can do short of flying to Syria and taking up arms against such tyranny is upvoting this post. Absolutely pathetic.&lt;p&gt;Update: The least we can do:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amnestyusa.org&amp;#x2F;get-involved&amp;#x2F;take-action-now&amp;#x2F;syria-release-bassel-khartabil-ua-22015&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amnestyusa.org&amp;#x2F;get-involved&amp;#x2F;take-action-now&amp;#x2F;syria...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omarish</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m probably going to get downvoted a lot for this, but this is probably the exact feeling people on the other side get that causes them to go to Syria and take up arms and join isil.&lt;p&gt;Edit: To be 100% clear, I&amp;#x27;m by no means sympathizing. Rather, I believe that understanding an adversary&amp;#x27;s motivations can help resolve a conflict.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death</title><url>http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2015/11/13/urgent-reports-.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corndoge</author><text>I hate feeling completely powerless in these kinds of situations. All I can do short of flying to Syria and taking up arms against such tyranny is upvoting this post. Absolutely pathetic.&lt;p&gt;Update: The least we can do:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amnestyusa.org&amp;#x2F;get-involved&amp;#x2F;take-action-now&amp;#x2F;syria-release-bassel-khartabil-ua-22015&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amnestyusa.org&amp;#x2F;get-involved&amp;#x2F;take-action-now&amp;#x2F;syria...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DiabloD3</author><text>Yeah, honestly, its shit like this other countries should go to war over. The United States was founded on free speech, not just having it, but spreading that ideal everywhere. FOSS is free speech.&lt;p&gt;We dropped bombs on Iraq for non-existant WMDs, and invaded Afghanistan over a CIA agent that was living in Pakistan, yet we won&amp;#x27;t do anything to an out of control government bent on destroying what little society it has left and is a legitimate threat to national security.&lt;p&gt;Fuck that.</text></comment>