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Iran Sentences 8 Facebook Users To Combined 123 Years In Jail

motownbob
motownbob
May 29, 2014
10:57am
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Those Wacky Iranians are at it again ! What's next , cutting off someone's hand for stealing ? Oh wait , they already do that ! Bob
jphelan
jphelan
May 29, 2014
11:12am
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So were these radical Islamists or just regular ones.....sometimes I get so confused!
Boilerman
Boilerman
May 29, 2014
11:13am
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Yes.


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Originally posted by: jphelan
So were these radical Islamists or just regular ones.....sometimes I get so confused!


forkushV
forkushV
May 29, 2014
11:33am
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Did they waterboard any of them? Because as everyone knows, that's no longer torture.

Roulette Man
Roulette Man
May 29, 2014
2:37pm
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Originally posted by: forkushV
Did they waterboard any of them? Because as everyone knows, that's no longer torture.


Hmmm. You equate waterboarding terrorists for information with people who stone and hang people for adultery or other minor crimes. I don't know if you thought you were being cute and clever, but you certainly didn't gain any respect from anyone.
forkushV
forkushV
May 29, 2014
4:03pm
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
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Originally posted by: forkushV
Did they waterboard any of them? Because as everyone knows, that's no longer torture.


Hmmm. You equate waterboarding terrorists for information with people who stone and hang people for adultery or other minor crimes...
No, I compared it with the Facebook users who got long prison sentences. The Shah of Iran who the US placed in power, and his son, the Shah who the US kept in power, did much, much worse.

Of course the US has actively supported monsters like Allende in Chile and the Proceso in Argentina, who "disappeared" thousands of victims. The United States didn't have a problem if they oppressed and murdered their own citizens, as long as they didn't oppress Standard Oil and United Fruit Company. And then there's Iraq.

America has more blood on it's hands than the Muslims ever did. And if our Christianist fanatics ever gain power, watch out.
Roulette Man
Roulette Man
May 30, 2014
12:18am
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Originally posted by: forkushV
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
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Originally posted by: forkushV
Did they waterboard any of them? Because as everyone knows, that's no longer torture.


Hmmm. You equate waterboarding terrorists for information with people who stone and hang people for adultery or other minor crimes...
No, I compared it with the Facebook users who got long prison sentences. The Shah of Iran who the US placed in power, and his son, the Shah who the US kept in power, did much, much worse.

Of course the US has actively supported monsters like Allende in Chile and the Proceso in Argentina, who "disappeared" thousands of victims. The United States didn't have a problem if they oppressed and murdered their own citizens, as long as they didn't oppress Standard Oil and United Fruit Company. And then there's Iraq.

America has more blood on it's hands than the Muslims ever did. And if our Christianist fanatics ever gain power, watch out.


You seem to have no problem in thinking that the punishment practices of the Taliban and Iran are no worse than anything that America does. That of course makes you painfully misinformed or makes you an apologist for the Taliban and Iran.
Boilerman
Boilerman
May 30, 2014
2:40am
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Well said.


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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
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Originally posted by: forkushV
Did they waterboard any of them? Because as everyone knows, that's no longer torture.


Hmmm. You equate waterboarding terrorists for information with people who stone and hang people for adultery or other minor crimes. I don't know if you thought you were being cute and clever, but you certainly didn't gain any respect from anyone.


forkushV
forkushV
May 30, 2014
3:07am
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
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Originally posted by: forkushV
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
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Originally posted by: forkushV
Did they waterboard any of them? Because as everyone knows, that's no longer torture.


Hmmm. You equate waterboarding terrorists for information with people who stone and hang people for adultery or other minor crimes...
No, I compared it with the Facebook users who got long prison sentences. The Shah of Iran who the US placed in power, and his son, the Shah who the US kept in power, did much, much worse.

Of course the US has actively supported monsters like Allende in Chile and the Proceso in Argentina, who "disappeared" thousands of victims. The United States didn't have a problem if they oppressed and murdered their own citizens, as long as they didn't oppress Standard Oil and United Fruit Company. And then there's Iraq.

America has more blood on it's hands than the Muslims ever did. And if our Christianist fanatics ever gain power, watch out.


You seem to have no problem in thinking that the punishment practices of the Taliban and Iran are no worse than anything that America does...
America has done much worse, and to believe otherwise is to suffer from a disease known as American Exceptionalism.

Causing over 100,000 deaths in Iraq in a war started over false pretenses: much worse. Overthrowing a democratically elected government in Iran and installing a repressive Shah: much worse. Militarily and financially supporting a series of monsters in Central and South America, who raped and murdered nuns, murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero, threw human beings out of helicopters, and murdered thousands: much worse.

When exceptionalist Americans naively ask, "Why do they hate us," often it's because we deserve it.
Don
Don
May 30, 2014
4:06am
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Originally posted by: forkushV
When exceptionalist Americans naively ask, "Why do they hate us," often it's because we deserve it.
Who is this "we" of whom forkushV speaks?

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