Posted on 07/14/2009 1:31:24 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Back in April, Eli Lake of the Wash Times times Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), a joint venture between the Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia and German powerhouse Siemens broke the Iran embargo to sell a "big brother-like" spy system to Ahmadinejad's nut house:
A spokesman for NSN said the servers were sold for "lawful intercept functionality," a technical term used by the cell-phone industry to refer to law enforcement's ability to tap phones, read e-mails and monitor electronic data on communications networks.
This sale has allowed the oppressive Iranian regime to build a monitoring center that can archive intercepts and provide a valuable tool to intensify repression against those struggling to gain their freedom.
Beyond all of the "embargo" reasons that make this sale wrong, from a human rights perspective, this new system is helping the strong-armed Iranian leadership monitor (and punish) dissent.
With a track record of feeding repressive terrorist regimes, why are we looking at giving Siemens up to $8 Billion dollars worth of stimulus dollars:
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Barry has GE’s Jeffrey Immelt as an economic advisor, the very same company that has and may still be dealing with Iran despite Iran being sanctioned?
Answer: Because the company greased the palms of Democrats and donated huge sums of money through out of state sources to 0bama.
See that was too easy, wasn’t it?
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