Comments on: How Ahmad Batebi Survived Torture In Iran

Tells 60 Minutes How A Photo Taken Of Him During A Protest Got Him Sentenced To Death

[bblank27]

I have a question regarding this story and the reporting. How do you aquire a cell phone with video when you have just broke out of the pokey?

[Alex_113]

I wonder why 60 minutes is not interested in political prisoners at other places like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey.

This guy looks perfectly healthy and a bit over weight too (even during his scape). Have you seen those kids living in Gaza?

[hotrokh]

I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned the fact that the (CIA trained and US equipped) Shah of Iran used tactics of torture that made getting your testicles flogged seem like a harmless fetish. Again the CIA trained "savak" secret police (like the CIA trained Mossad Israeli secret police) torture(d) by pulling fingernails off with pliers, raping daughters/wives in front of their families and using hooks to take out eyes and testes..
Not only did the US condone it, they financed and trained too...same with the zionist police..so thanks America! We learned it from you!
PS..when the Serbs were placing bets on what a pregnant Bosnian woman was carrying then cutting her stomach open to see who "won", when they were putting babies in the oven in front of their mothers...where was the US outrage then?? Where was our duty to the world that we falsley think we have?? Why did Clinton wait so many years to act?? Oh yeah...there was no oil to steal,and no natural resources to milk!!

[sara_99]

mwhc1, there is also a place called Israel that dumps thousands of cluster bombs on Lebanon still killing and dismembering innocent people. Let's face it, we are all the same ... influenced by ideas, anger, and religion; capable of committing the most horrific acts and also capable of as much compassion.
.... Imagine a world without such rigid ideologies and resided by free thinking individuals...

[Questionews]

walt1944

Bush is gone.
The nightmare is over.
Time to look forward.
Stop being obsessed with the past.
Not every story revolves around Bush.
Put away the Bush voodoo doll. (It has to be a shredded piece fabric by now)
You can return to reasoned, rational thinking now.

[walt1944]

Seeing the piece on 60 Minutes yesterday made me wonder that if the former-Great Emperor George Bush II had been given a 3rd term, or totally trashed the Constitution and declared himself Great Emperor for life, or even if John McBush McCain had won the election, that our country would have turned into a "Christian" Iran!!!!

That is, "Christian" according to the right-wing, wacko, fundamentalist "Christian" sects out there!

Certainly not "Christian" acording to what Jesus preached in the Bible. Concepts such as love your neighbor, blessed are the peacemakers, the meek shall inherit the earth, if someone strikes you on the cheek, turn the other cheek to him also, and THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE SWORD SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD!

Extremist Christian concepts 2,000 years ago, and just as "extremist" in the neocon Facist Nazi Republican world today!!!

HAIL OBAMA!!!

[Questionews]

In all reality, trying to compare waterboarding with having your nuts beat with a cable?
Any man (and I'm talking men) would gratefully endure a 50 waterboarding sessions than one session of ball beatings. Any man that disagrees should do a quick check to be sure that they have a pair themselves.

[stevex47]

Wow, iran's nutjobs and republicans have a whole lot in common.

[searingtruth]

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guyfrompa50


Ahhh....

Evil run aground, and out of argument.

As always.
ST


"The greatest persuader is the ever encroaching power of truth."
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[searingtruth]

"searingtruth - we's see how fast you'r change your tune if a family members was in harms way and the info needed to possibly save was from one of these scum. I;m sure you would be first in line to get it out of him in anyway you coud."
guyfrompa50


Huh?

"these scum"?

So you're absolutely sure that the anonymous global citizens that Bush and Obama have indefinitely incarcerated in secret prisons without charge or representation, where they are subject to institutionalized torture and murder, are guilty of something?

My goodness.

We don't even know most of their names. We have no idea where they were abducted from. They haven't even been charged, so they certainly have no opportunity of proving they're not guilty of crimes they're not even accused of.

That's what Iran, China, and Russia do.

And it enables them to get rid of any innocent citizen, throughout the world, that they wish.

Simply because some politician doesn't like them personally, or doesn't like them exposing government misconduct, or has a financial motive or .... on and on and on.

That's why our founding fathers implemented our Constitutional rule of law, which the Democrats and Republicans have so gleefully abandoned; so these types of government atrocities could not exist in America.
ST


"A whisper of horror.
That's all we could hear."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave