Doug Henwood Quotes Amnesty Intenational:
Iran
New government fails to address dire human rights situation
1. Introduction.
Six months after Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took up office as the
country’s new president, the human rights situation in Iran remains
dire. Scores of critics and opponents of the government continue to be
imprisoned, many following grossly unfair trials, the death penalty is
widely used and torture is common. The authorities maintain strict
controls on freedom of expression and association, and religious and
ethnic minorities are subject to persecution. Women are severely
discriminated against in both law and practice and those lawyers,
journalists and others who dare speak up in support of human rights -
Iran’s community of courageous human rights defenders – do so at
constant risk of harassment, imprisonment or other abuses by security
authorities who are able to act with impunity.
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In case you haven't noticed, Iran is under international siege right now
due to it's nuclear/syria/lebanon/SOF groups consolidating bases on
their Iraq border problems, and can't pay attention to your bourgeoise
approach to human rights issues at the moment... Please try again later
when the circuits aren't busy... thank you.
So what you... or Amnesty International thinks would amelieorate the
situation is precluded by issues created by the U.S. government, it's
satraps like the UK, and media hype created by subservient NGOs like AI.
You know, they chop your hands off for stealing, no matter what your gender.
Seems pretty egalitarian to me!
I wouldn't *even* know what they do to BS investment advisors... but I'm
sure it isn't pretty. [<= Cheap shot]
Don't like their form of justice? How about a nice gang rape on Rikers
Island, and you get to commit suicide by throwing yourself off the 2nd
tier. Or... you could just sit in a supermax box for 23 hours a day till
you can't stand up straight anymore and your bones start to deteriorate.
That's the treatment for being fingered as 'gang related' by some snitch
trying to lighten *his* load. No proof required, and it's a hole @
Pelican Bay, Marion for you.
IOW, you should probably butt out of other folks legal systems and pay
attention to the one you pay taxes for and have to live with, but as the
sandwichmeister said earlier.
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Long ago, it struck me that political activists were much more
interested in issues
that were in some sense remote from the daily lives of people around
them. I would attribute that to two things: 1. people can engage the
remote issues at a prescriptive "executive" level -- theory,
journalism, day-dreaming -- where day-to-day matters may seem to be
less amenable to such abstraction and 2. engaging with more immediate
issues takes people into the uncomfortable realm of their own
unavoidable complicities, equivocations and less-than-saintly
motivations.
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