The Dispossessed -
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Tuesday, 17 January 2017
quote [ WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted the administration, and made WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures, famous. ]
Thanks, Obama.
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Bob Denver said @ 10:13pm GMT on 17th Jan
[Score:2 Hot Pr0n]
OT but I just read something truly funny on Quora (yeah I know but this is!) Someone asked what Obama should do about Trump. The responder replied that were he Obama, he'd resign on the 19th or 20th and thus make Biden the 46th president. Then Trump would have all of his presidential tchotchkes be wrong and it would piss him off every time he looked at them...or he'd have to have them remade.
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Headlessfriar said @ 3:27am GMT on 18th Jan
I thought Quora was that fungus-based meat substitute they make chicken nuggets out of.
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midden said[1] @ 6:24am GMT on 18th Jan
That's probably the best use for those guys, anyway.
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Bob Denver said @ 10:05pm GMT on 17th Jan
Fuck, YES!!
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HoZay said @ 10:08pm GMT on 17th Jan
Thanks, Obama!
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sanepride said @ 10:12pm GMT on 17th Jan
He's also commuting the sentences of hundreds of drug offenders.
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satanspenis666 said @ 10:50pm GMT on 17th Jan
Yet still, it is not enough!
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Kama-Kiri said @ 11:34pm GMT on 17th Jan
"non-violent" drug offenders, mostly small-scale crack dealers as near as I can make out from the link.
Without that qualifier, what you wrote above sounds like a right-wing scare headline. |
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HoZay said @ 12:02am GMT on 18th Jan
Some of them may be Mexicans!
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midden said @ 6:13am GMT on 18th Jan
What, do you mean some of them aren't???
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sanepride said @ 12:14am GMT on 18th Jan
No doubt it will be.
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cb361 said @ 12:59am GMT on 18th Jan
It already is.
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XregnaR said @ 10:30pm GMT on 17th Jan
Meh. I'd rather see Snowden, but I bet that doesn't happen. Obama doesn't have the best track record regarding "transparency" related to 3 letter agencies.
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HoZay said @ 11:07pm GMT on 17th Jan
Snowden hasn't applied for clemency. Plus, he's living in Putin's basement, so...
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Ankylosaur said @ 11:38pm GMT on 17th Jan
Plus he hasn't been found guilty of anything yet so there's no sentence to commute. Can a president pardon someone for a hypothetical crime they haven't been found guilty of yet?
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hellboy said @ 11:53pm GMT on 17th Jan
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HoZay said @ 1:37am GMT on 18th Jan
Or whichever Secret Service agent draws the short straw.
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midden said @ 6:21am GMT on 18th Jan
I know one should not talk lightly of assassination, but damn, that would make a great book/movie! It would also guarantee that Biden doesn't go down in the history books as just another faceless smudge of a VP like Richard Johnson, Levi Morton or Garret Hobart. He deserves better than that.
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HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 11:59pm GMT on 17th Jan
"Basement?" Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
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HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 12:02am GMT on 18th Jan
I wonder if Julian Assange will keep his promise to be extradited, since the pardon went through?
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HoZay said @ 12:03am GMT on 18th Jan
[Score:1 Funny]
I'm sure he will, he seems like a stand-up guy.
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foobar said @ 12:31am GMT on 18th Jan
It's not actually a pardon, so...
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HoZay said[1] @ 1:02am GMT on 18th Jan
[Score:1 Interesting]
True. he's off the hook.
Actually, the ask was clemency. Your move, Julian: “If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case,” WikiLeaks said on Twitter. |
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yogi said @ 4:09am GMT on 18th Jan
Now all he needs to do is free Edward Snowden
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Onix said @ 5:21am GMT on 18th Jan
Leonard Peltier is still in jail.
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