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BS: Blair the hypocrite

Peace 07 Apr 07 - 01:04 PM
Barry Finn 07 Apr 07 - 01:24 PM
Peace 07 Apr 07 - 01:32 PM
Peace 07 Apr 07 - 01:53 PM
GUEST,282RA 07 Apr 07 - 02:18 PM
Barry Finn 07 Apr 07 - 02:23 PM
Big Al Whittle 07 Apr 07 - 03:08 PM
Barry Finn 07 Apr 07 - 03:26 PM
Big Al Whittle 07 Apr 07 - 04:01 PM
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Peace 07 Apr 07 - 04:21 PM
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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Peace
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 01:04 PM

Iran

Human Rights Concerns

Amnesty International continues to document serious human violations including detention of human rights defenders and other prisoners of conscience, unfair trials, torture and mistreatment in detention, deaths in custody and the application of the death penalty. Iran has one of the highest number of recorded executions of any country in the world. Amnesty International is particularly concerned about the execution of children and individuals who were minors when their crimes were alleged to have taken place. In one case, an 18-year-old girl, Nazanin, was sentenced to be executed for having, at age 17, stabbed to death one of three men in a park who were attempting to rape her and her younger niece.

Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns for Iran »
Demand an End to Stoning

Up to nine women and two men in Iran are under sentence of execution by stoning, including one woman who was convicted of adultery and who claimed she was forced into prostitution. Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan has called on the Iranian government to abolish stoning on the occasion of the fourth World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, 2006.


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Barry Finn
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 01:24 PM

And this shows us what Peace? That their society may be slightly more opressive than ours? We're not that different in our treatment of our own or of our treatment of others for that matter. Try to make another point.

Barry


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Peace
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 01:32 PM

Don't be so aggressive, Barry. The post was for WLD. Yes, Iran abuses its citizens. I think your country abuses its citizens, but just because I didn't take the opportunity to slag the USA in that post should not be read by you as an indication I think the USA does not deserve slagging. Canada has its issues also.

I think Iran is one of the more repressive governments in the world. I don't give a shit whether or not you agree with me.


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Peace
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 01:53 PM

Part of the problem with this thread is the thread. It begins with the premise that Blair is a hypocrite (which he may or may not be) and in order to prove he is, it requires people to either tacitly or explicitly support Iran. Iran at present is not a country worth supporting. It has a miserable human rights recortd and has had for decades. People then say that was caused by the USA (and Russia had its hands in there, too) and whether or not that is true, it does not deal with the fact that TODAY, Iran is repressive, and in some ways barbaric.

So, people dig into Persian history and support how civilized Iran is! NO! That is how civilized Iran WAS.

Case in point. I posted to a thread where 'Christian' countries were taking the piss for all the invasions they have done. In fact, the thread argument had shifeted to the Crusades and the slaughters of people done by 'Christians'. My post named countries that had been invaded by 'Islam' hundreds of years ago. Fact is, Muslims are no more peaceful than Christians. The problem is one of what's arguable and what isn't. When a person has to support a country like Iran in order to slag a nation like the UK, it simply means people are saying they think Iranian bastards are better than British bastards.

How many of you support the government of Iran: its abuse of citizens, specifically women; its gun running, its contributions to the deaths of children in other countries? How many of you?

Wait. I can hear it now: The USA caused it. Bullshit. The Neocons in Iran are NO better than the Neocons in the USA or Britain for that matter. Check your own morality in this issue. You support a theocracy, the same theocracy you dislike in the USA. Give it a rest yourself. Make another point.


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 02:18 PM

>>Dianavan..you are as easily if not more easily conned than the next person. Do you really believe all you have written on this thread in your 'stand alone' views? We are fed information from various sources and yours is only one....whose source is correct is a matter of conjecture but you are so obviously always right we cannot present an adequate argument against your fine words.
Not sure if it has been fed back to you yet but on UK TV, the picture being painted is of the 'Hostages' from our Navy/marines were mostly kept in solitary confinement....they were blindfolded and guns were cocked behind them..making them believe they were going to be shot...they had no other choice but to go along with the TV interviews and the supposed 'fun time' they were having which was being presented to the press. They knew they were in Iraqui waters not Iranian but under duresse had to admit to it and apologise on TV
Iran has certainly made a coup of some sort....with you anyway!!
Blair made all the right decisions! They paid off!<<

I suppose you think your source is the only one that's right. You don't anymore about what went on than I do. And I claim to know nothing at all about it mainly because I don't care. Iran was in their rights to do what they did and it wasn't anything the US and Britain wouldnn't have done under the same circumstances.

As far as the TV images being all show it still makes Iran look better than the US. We can't even do that right. When we show pictures of how we treat Muslim detainees, I'll guarantee you people around the world recoiled way more than they did when they saw pictures of the British detainees. About the only people recoiling at that are Britons and Americans who, quite frankly, aren't deserving of sympathy after telling the rest of the world to shove diplomacy up their ass.


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Barry Finn
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 02:23 PM

Part of what I see is that in oder to show that Iran isn't worth supporting, Iran's policies are being thrown up like a window shade & their the same policies & practices that I see in the same nations that on the window shade next door. One deserves no better treatment or exposure the the other or no worst either but don't go holding one up next to the other in a picturesque fashion without showing them or all in the same light. There's quite a bit of shading going on here.

I do agree that Iran has some big time persnally qurkes but Iran isn't over here patroling within site of any of my borders that I can see nor do I hear about them off the British coast either. You are throwing stones in a glass house.

Blair is not only a hypocrite he's far worst & like Bush does not deserve the support of their people & it's just the same in Iran. They ingauge in the same atrocities & their records are in now way to be held up as a comparison for anyone to proudly veiw.

Barry


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 03:08 PM

Well Barry - theres hypocrisy, and then again there's hypocrisy.

I sort of know where people like you and Diana are coming from . My parents were very very left wing. They thought Kruschev was the hero of the Cuba missile crisis - a model of self restraint, despite the fact that he had enslaved half of of Europe.

Similarly I think you are turning your back on the fact that SOMEONE is paying for all these murders going on in Iraq, and stopping democratic process being set up there. Someone is behind all these terrible things like 9/11 - recruiting young people as Muslim terrorists. And ones attention is immediately grabbed by those who walk the walk and talk the talk.

Its pretty bloddy silly prancing round with a few technical infringements of England and America in war situations that Amnesty has come up with - rather than the truck load of depostions that Amnesty has come up with againg Iran.

if you need it for a sense of identity - fair enough, but jeering at the discomfiture of the English as they watch a group of their young people fall into the hands of people whos records of monstrous cruelty. Well it makes you look just plain weird.


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Barry Finn
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 03:26 PM

Weelittledrummer, if ya don't want your young people falling into the hands of people who's records show monstrrous cruelty then don't send them there. Otherwise wait until they come to your shores & start their patrols. But if you think that what we're doing in the middle east is somewhat of a noble adventure or gesture you keep puffy & blowing & beating your chest that will do you fine. As far as whose paying for the murders in Iraq, the allied nations are paying for them & commiting them, if you still think that 9/11 had something to do with Iraq & us being there then you can keep believing it if you need to, I don't. Are we now policing nations according to Amnesty International. We'd be far better off tending our own gardens of delight 1st. But seeing that all is so well with you & yours feel free to invade others & bring the democratic process down on the heads of innocent people while stripping them of the few rights that they might've once had & replace those with their own blood. We're doing a fine job at it wouldn't ya say. Keep cheering, you got God & the King on your side.

Barry


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 04:01 PM

They are on my streets and your streets - it must take an act of willful blindness not to notice the odd tube station and world trade centre going off with a pop occasionally.

And don't you dare accuse me of being a Queen and country patriot - you monstrous blob of moral superiority!


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Barry Finn
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 04:15 PM

Now, now, weelittledrummer, you want to be condscending towards me & peg me in a hole with your parents, with whom you should show more respect for their leftist ways then back yourself up some & check out our own self first. You do flag wave for your Queen & country, you back the part & play of the Blair & Bush policy so as I see it your shoe fits well so keep on wearing it. I'll let you know if I see any of those bogeymen on my streets or yours but the ones that were here were no from any nation that we've attacked. In fact they represented no nation at all, just a gang of thugs pretending to be the angels of death. ANd here you go on beliving that they were sent by Iran or Iraq. Get real.

Barry


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Peace
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 04:21 PM

"just a gang of thugs pretending to be the angels of death"

Lots of that going around. I wonder where the funding is coming from?


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Peace
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 04:30 PM

That's not a dig at anyone.

The US, Britain, Iran, Iraq,--name it, have been funding terrorist organizations. The only commonality is that plain folks in this world are paying for the shit governments do. The world has more wars going on, millions starving, people being slaughtered, and I'd ask this: Is anyone here in favour of that stuff? They are bastards all. Too many people here think their bastard is more righteous than the other guy's. I gotta hot flash for y'all. They's bastards, plain and simple. And all the 'he pushed me back first' ain't gonna accomplish jackshit.


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: dianavan
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 04:51 PM

2A2RA - explained it well. "As far as the TV images being all show it still makes Iran look better than the US."

Thats exactly what I was referring to and I mean today, not somewhere in the past. If you compare the way the 15 Brits were handled to the way the the U.S. handles their detainees, Iran definitely comes out on top. Its a propaganda war and Iran is winning in the court of public opinion. Who cares if 15 Brits say they were kept in solitary and 'psychologically' tortured? Lets see the hoods, the bended knees, the bloody faces, the bruises, the noose and the bowed heads. Thats what we saw the U.S. doing to their detainees and Blair is cheering the U.S. admininstration and everything they do.

Yes, Iran has a terrible human rights record. They are a theocracy. Of the list you provided, Peace, there are perhaps 14 possible incidents of torture. Compare that to the number of people who are being tortured by the Bush and his lapdog, Blair, the defenders of democracy!

Weelittledrummer - Get over it. This is not about your teen-aged rebellion. Start paying attention instead of reacting to fear and propaganda. Iraq had nothing to do with 911 or terrorism. It is the occupation of Iraq by the U.S. that is responsible for the recent recruiting of terrorists.

The U.S. does not want the democratically elected majority, Shiite government to succeed. Iran is helping the Shiites of Iraq. It is the al-Qaeda/Sunni/Arabs who are responsible for the insurgency, the terror and most of the murders occurring in Iraq. Who do you think might be helping them and why?

Figure it out.


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Subject: RE: BS: Blair the hypocrite
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 08 Apr 07 - 09:43 AM

Well done Tony your diplomatic approach worked


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