First of all, I'm really sorry so many people in your country died, and I'm also sorry that your leadership is trying to enact broad measures against terrorism that you dissagree with.

Now, for the talk on regional vs global issues.

You've got to be kidding!!!

You're polluting the perlmonks discussion space with irrelevant content about local politics in a single country. Imagine what would happen if we all did this. There are probably 200 countries represented in perlmonks

There was a shooting in Switzerland last week where 14 politicians died. This is causing dialogue in this country about limiting civil liberties. Yet you do not see a call to arms by swiss monks.

There was a new release of JAKARTA two weeks ago. Yet no postings showed up in perlmonks about that either. So what's so special about your issue that should push you to cross-post like that?

This is entirely inappropriate stuff for perlmonks. The very fact that you bring up issues about one country's kneejerk responses to a trajedy on its soil echos what the rest of the world has been telling you for 50 years. Wake up - the US is not the only country in the world and we don't care about your internal matters.

What happens to your politics in your country is as relevant to me as what happens in Germany is relevant to you (in other words not at all). Same goes with your state and city politics. If your president makes an announcement about US foreign policy, I care about it. If he makes an announcement about the War On Drugs, then not.

perlmonks is a PERL discussion site. Perl is not the ACLU. Perl is not a country. Perl is not even a culture (well, at least it's not meant to be).

PERL IS A COMPUTER LANGUAGE FOR MANIPULATING DATA.

If you have some gripe about your governement in your country, tell someone in alt.gov.us.i.hate.what.you.are.doing but don't tell me about it, or start www.USCivilLiberties.org. Just don't post this on perl.

Did you even once consider how many of this community even _live_ in the US?

I have to be honest, I can't imagine why: 1/ your post did not get reaped 2/ you got 83 reputation from voting

Now I understand that the US is having a surge of patriotism (It's also called nationalism) and (I presume you are American) you feel duty-bound to talk about your problems. Fine. I respect that. But please, keep it out of my radar. it is irrelevant to perlmonks and to the perl community.

Please, next time, think of the audience, and take a bit of global perspective. This is the internet, not the US-internet.

Ronan

In reply to I'm sorry, but while I sympathize with your issue, it is off-topic in a PERL LANGUAGE forum on the net. by hackmare
in thread (OT) Pending Anti-Terrorism Legislation in the US could impact us all by idnopheq

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