dont see why political hitpieces should be on hacker news sites,

considering that U.S. itself is currently torturing the Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning in prison who exposed the fraud and war crimes of U.S. at the much greater international scale

so that Germany is protesting the inhumane prison conditions of Manning

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42571392/ns/world_news-europe/

leave politics aside would be a good idea ..