Posted on 06/08/2005 10:24:25 AM PDT by angelr1076
The War Against the Torture Masters Will any Western leader proclaim the Iranian elections a fraud?
The cheerless creatures who rule the Islamic republic of Iran have developed a particularly wicked use of torture. Not only do they use the full panoply of physical and psychological horrors on their captives, but they then send the victims back into their homes and neighborhoods for brief periods of “parole” or “medical leave,” so that their friends and families can see with their own eyes the brutal effects of the torture. The clear intent of this practice is to intimidate the population at large, to break the will of would-be dissenters and opponents, and to maximize the effects of the victims themselves, for the brief respite from the pain of the prisons is mercilessly accompanied by the certainty that the agony will soon resume.
Thus, when a victim uses his time outside the torture chambers to call for the people of Iran to act against the regime, it warrants our attention.......
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
They are made to wear womens' underwear on their heads? /sarcasm
They're not human rights activists, they're anti-American activists.
Soft racism. The usual complainers about how such things as "America's gulag" in Gitmo undoubtedly think that little brown Persian people aren't capable of freedom, and besides, their culture is built on oppression, so we shouldn't force them to conform to our way of doing things or expect them to change.
They're not human rights activists, they're anti-American activists.
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We have too many groups, still duping the ignorant, that are anti-American losers, always trying to hide their identity.
Communist, socialist and Islamic human rights violations don't count...
And somehow we're painted out to be the villians because a couple of terrorists in our custody complain that their koran was mistreated and the media jumps all over it.
Human rights activists are only willing to be activists when they are actually protected from by htose they hate.
And somehow we're painted out to be the villians....
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But of course. Don't you realize that is the FULL TIME job of the MSM, the ACLU, Amnesty Internation these days? The communists in our midst need love too!
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