Links for February 11th from 20:55 to 21:05

  • Don’t Divorce Us – I honestly do not understand how any person can watch this video and not find their heart broken into a nonillion pieces at the thought of these families being torn apart.It really underlines what enormous privileges security and privacy are—the knowledge that you are the only people who can fuck up your relationship. This is something I know a little bit about myself, and it is excruciating, unbearably frightening, to have the fate of your relationship in other people’s hands. There’s no legitimate reason why the people in this video should be denied the security and privacy opposite-sex couples are allowed to enjoy. None.
  • You’re Telling on Us? – If you’re doing something, you should be able to say it. If it’s the right thing to do, it should be the right thing to admit to. If America doesn’t torture prisoners, it has little reason to offer evidence of that. And if it does… its secrecy speaks volumes about its own doubt as to its rightness. And the same for Britain: if it doesn’t condone torture, or join in, the way Miliband claims, then prove it and investigate; and if it does, its own secrecy makes it complicit or worse.
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