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Jailed Iranian Journalist Tells CBSNews.com How Regime Suppresses Ideas And Images
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- george2221"my speech is their greatest fear" really?when the Muslims take over you better start learning FARSI, and make sure you pronounce ALLAH correctly!!because us Christians the religious nuts are making your life imposible ,count your blessings that you can put food on your table!!now go back to your porn site when we need you will call you and its coming to you in the mail, the DRAFT boy,
Posted by sunsetbillyb at 08:32 AM : Oct 16, 2007
Typical fear mongering from the extreme right. You really think that they''re going to try to invade and take over our country? WOW!! You better go stock up on water and canned goods and hurry back down inside your "fallout shelter"!!
Lunatic. - Reply to this comment
- Yet secular humanists and the far-left believe Achmadenijad who is a very evil and wicked man.
Posted by singinrick at 07:26 AM : Oct 16, 2007
Ahmadinejad, bin Laden, and Bush are all far-right, extremist, conservatives that are staunch believers in their respective religions. They all believe that they have the moral superiority based on their fanatical religious beliefs.
Liberals oppose their collective "dominance" on society, both here and in Iran, but what happens in Iran, is Iran''s problem. Same with Israel - it''s no concern on the United States. Our president should be more concerned with fixing all that is broke in our country, before we attempt "repairs" on other nations. - Reply to this comment
- AGAIN - who cares?
Free speech in other country''s is NOT the responsibility or concern of the United States. How we live our lives is OUR business, how they live their lives is THEIR business. I don''t care what happens there - that''s their problem. Our interfering in their society is only going to worsen our national security. Why do the extremists on the far-right always think they have a "moral lock", and have to impose their extremist beliefs on everyone else? - Reply to this comment
- Iran need to drop off the face of the EARTH along with every one over there We just need to get a long with each other and leave people alone
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- The freedom to speaks one''s mind does not exist in Iran ...
I say, so what ... Iran is not a Western country ...
What I ask is this: is the Bush government once again using the media to push for a new war against another country?
"Iran does not have WoMD, but they do jail their citizens for speaking their minds" ... if I close my eyes, I can actually hear these words come out of Bush-wacker''s mouth ... - Reply to this comment
- So when it comes to US soldiers "mistreating" prisoners in Abu-Graib, its an issue of "a few bad apples". But when it comes to some interrogator in Iran getting over zealous and accidentally causing the death of a "reporter" that was caught taking photographs in a high-profile military region, its the whole Iranian regime that is corrupt -- and it must have been ordered by someone at the top. There''s no other explanation.
Whether the current regime remains in power or not, Iran will always have an issue with freedom of speech (just as it did during the era of the pro-US Shah). The reason for this is the broad ethnic diversity and strong militant separatist groups that will exploit any freedom of speech to spread hatred and incite terror.
But then again, who give a ***. Lets attack them and bring them "democracy", and lets leave such issues for later. - Reply to this comment
- So when it comes to US soldiers "mistreating" prisoners in Abu-Graib, its an issue of "a few bad apples". But when it comes to some interrogator in Iran getting over zealous and accidentally causing the death of a "reporter" that was caught taking photographs in a high-profile military region, its the whole Iranian regime that is corrupt -- and it must have been ordered by someone at the top. There''s no other explanation.
Whether the current regime remains in power or not, Iran will always have an issue with freedom of speech (just as it did during the era of the pro-US Shah). The reason for this is the broad ethnic diversity and strong militant separatist groups that will exploit any freedom of speech to spread hatred and incite terror.
But then again, who give a ***. Lets attack them and bring them "democracy", and lets leave such issues for later. - Reply to this comment
- F Cheney, F Bush, F ALL Republicans, Religious NUTS and the IDIOTS they enlist to SPY and ENFORCE their ILLEGAL LAWS, who think that they can OPPRESS my SPEECH.
MY speech IS their GREATEST fear.
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Posted by george2221 at 06:34 AM : Oct 16, 2007
Go wash your dirty mouth out - Reply to this comment
- THE LIBERAL MAIN MEDIA AND DEMONIC-RAT BS PROPOGANDA MACHINE
The death knell of your ethics has been enabled by your parent organizations who have chosen to align themselves with political agendas. What is clear to me is that you are perpetuating the corrosive partisan politics that is destroying our country and killing our service members who are at war.
http://www.militaryreporters.org/sanchez_101207.html
Sanchez Blasts Media, But Media Only Highlight His Criticism of Bush
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2007/10/15/sanchez-blasts-media-media-only-highlight-his-criticism-bush
Sanchez Assaults Drive-By Media
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101507/content/01125112.guest.html
Retired general issues sharply worded rebuke of ''unscrupulous reporting''
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/10/retired-general.html
Sanchez: Media''s Reporting of Iraq War Endangered Soldiers'' Lives
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301676,00.html - Reply to this comment
- House Democrats Vowed last week Not - To grant Immunity in the eavesdropping bill without
being told Exactly what the companies have done.
The Bush administration has said the companies cooperated in good faith because of their
patriotism and desire to protect the country in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,
and should not be punished.
Brought to you by :
Criminal Corporate (Nazi) America
The Republican (Nazi) Party
The Justice Department
Lastdance
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Posted by lastdance2 at 03:58 AM : Oct 16, 2007
You''re POD by the last two election losses to Bush. - Reply to this comment
- Iran has at least one problem in common with us: It is ALWAYS the old b@stards in power who are the problem.
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- WASHINGTON (Oct 15, 2007)
Phone companies that helped White House obtain records without court orders
Banned from speaking to Congress
Three telecommunications companies have declined to tell Congress
whether they gave U.S. intelligence agencies access to Americans'' phone and
computer records without court orders.
However, last week a Colorado court unsealed documents in the case of former Qwest CEO
Joseph Nacchio
Nacchio, maintains the National Security Agency asked Qwest to allow it to conduct
Electronic Surveillance without a Court Order in February 2001, Six (6) months before the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
On Monday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., asked the
Justice Department and McConnell for a full briefing on what he termed
Nacchio''s "Disturbing Revelation."
House Democrats Vowed last week Not - To grant Immunity in the eavesdropping bill without
being told Exactly what the companies have done.
The Bush administration has said the companies cooperated in good faith because of their
patriotism and desire to protect the country in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,
and should not be punished.
Brought to you by :
Criminal Corporate (Nazi) America
The Republican (Nazi) Party
The Justice Department
Lastdance - Reply to this comment
Re: "In 2001, more than 11,600 people 65 and older died from fall-related injuries"
Are you trying to tell me that dangerous pigs in the U.S., are also killing our elderly, by knocking them down and breaking them? Why don''t they just electrocute them to death like they did with this other guy?
Things are worse than I expected. I''ll bet that they don''t allow that kind of thing to go on in Iran.- Reply to this comment
Re: "Iran facts, FACTS: a 23% illiteracy rate, a 15% unemployment rate and 40% of the population living under the poverty line."
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With "No Child Left Behind" and "trickle-down tax-breaks", I think that we can reach those numbers in no time.- Reply to this comment
Related:
"(2006)Amnesty International reports 152 taser-related deaths in the US (since 2001)"
www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/tasr-m31.shtml- Reply to this comment
- Watching Bush and Ahmadinejad speak at the UN was truly surreal.
I wonder what the audience was thinking. I mean my goodness, here were two men who operate secret prisons, extra judicially abduct foreign and domestic citizens and incarcerate them indefinitely without charge or representation, often torture and sometimes murder them, and engage in the universal surveillance and denial of basic human rights for their citizens.
And yet they both had the audacity to stand before a body of learned men and woman and simply accuse the other of crimes they both enthusiastically commit.
It is a stunningly sad day for America when anyone can stand before any forum, anywhere in the world, and truthfully state that America has abandoned the rule of law, and now participates in the same human rights abuses they do.
It is long past time for the people of The United States of America to rise up and restore our Constitution and the rule of law it embraces to this land, for we may only have a few more months of false liberty left.
Bush and his henchmen have given themselves all the "legal" authority of any dictatorship, and must now only propagate one last false fear so they can be assured that the military and civilian police will follow any illegal order they command."
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A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com - Reply to this comment
Related:
"Los Angeles police takes blame for violent May Day protest"
"The investigators determined that 146 rubber bullets were fired and police batons were used 100 times during the clash injuring 246 civilians, including nine journalists..."
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hjDApNQ0ekq0tDwkLuq2BmtOADjA
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"Task Force to Look Into Kerry Taser Incident"
"GAINESVILLE, FL -- The University of Florida has formed a task force to look into the controversial taser incident."
"Police used a taser on a student who refused to step away from the mic after his time ran out during an event with Senator John Kerry."
www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=92809
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"(Another) Suspect Dies After Police Use Taser on Him"
"In Morganton, state investigators are looking into what led up to a man dying after being tased Saturday."
"Police said Donald Clark was being disruptive, so they used their taser on him to get him under control."
"He fell and hit his head and was then rushed him to Mission Hospital in Asheville. He died a day later."
www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=92809
(He was "suspected" of being "disruptive", so they electrocuted him, to death, with this "less-lethal" device.)- Reply to this comment
sftodd,
Re: "Now, in the U.S., if you try to pass out leaflets at a University, you can be arrested for trespassing."
This is the first that I have heard of this. Do you have a reference/URL?
Re: "It would be nice if the Iranians could put pressure on our government to stop it from infringing on our human rights. I hope they can help us win freedom from the evil dictators that control our government."
Agreed.- Reply to this comment
- It must be amazing to have that kind of free speech. In the U.S., we are forced into "free speech zones", and often beaten and atacked when we attempt to share our opinions in public.
In one recent case, we saw a student brutalized and electrocuted for simply asking one of our politicians a few legitimate questions.
Hopefully, one day, we will regain the kind of free speech opportunities enjoyed by these Iranian students.
Posted by FeelFree1 at 10:57 PM : Oct 15, 2007
It would be nice to have the freedom of speech here. We use to have that freedom until conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court decided that we should not have the freedom of speech for our own good. Now, in the U.S., if you try to pass out leaflets at a University, you can be arrested for trespassing. It would be nice if the Iranians could put pressure on our government to stop it from infringing on our human rights. I hope they can help us win freedom from the evil dictators that control our government. - Reply to this comment
Re: "Last week, President Ahmadinejad spoke before the student body at Tehran University."
%u201CStudents should feel responsible in the international arena. Today%u2019s world needs them,%u201D he said, in remarks to begin the new academic year."
"Many of the students heeded that call. Outside the auditorium, hundreds chanted "Death to the Dictator."
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It must be amazing to have that kind of free speech. In the U.S., we are forced into "free speech zones", and often beaten and atacked when we attempt to share our opinions in public.
In one recent case, we saw a student brutalized and electrocuted for simply asking one of our politicians a few legitimate questions.
Hopefully, one day, we will regain the kind of free speech opportunities enjoyed by these Iranian students.- Reply to this comment
