No it doesn't. Tax liens in the DC city government have fuck all to do with surveillance carried out by the federal government, notwithstanding Congressional authority over the DC government. Would it be appropriate for me to bring up the failings of Union Carbide or TEPCO in any thread mentioning a corporation? After they're business corporations too, and all business corporations are engaged in trying to increase their capital value...
...the point being that 'government' is not a unitary entity.
Furthermore, I don't think you're the arbiter of how HN discussions need to go down - so while you're entitled to talk about why you personally find a topic worthy of repeated discussion, trying to frame your individual opinion as a matter of objective fact is a rather cheap rhetorical trick unless you're speaking on pg's behalf.
