Khomeni says people who protest should be executed

[tazber]

Posted: 6/26/09 at 4:48pm

"Anyone who takes up arms to fight with the people, they are worthy of execution," Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami, a ranking cleric, said in a nationally broadcast sermon at Tehran University.


Wow, just...wow.

[romantico]

Posted: 6/26/09 at 4:52pm

Didn't Republicans say something similar with those who protested the war in Iraq? We all need to stand by our President in a time of war?

This is sick!

Updated On: 6/26/09 at 04:52 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/26/09 at 5:25pm

Gay protesters should be killed twice!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/26/09 at 6:08pm

Romantico

Your statement is a tad overblown but that is nothing new here.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/26/09 at 6:08pm

Romantico

Your statement is a tad overblown but that is nothing new here.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 6/26/09 at 6:20pm

So it is a tad overblown but kinda based on fact, no?

[romantico]

Posted: 6/26/09 at 6:53pm

Roxy, you were more than likely one of those who boycotted the Dixie Chicks. I bet you were silent when Natalie Maines life was threatened.Perhaps you have forgotten how rabid the extreme right was during the lead up to the war in Iraq.They made death threats towards liberals on a day to day basis.Go over to FreeRepublic and do a search.I recall dozens of threads where they demanded the Department of Homeland Security to take names of those who protest and incarcerate them and take away all of their rights. When Iranian officials do it it's a horrible act. When Republican politicians do it in a time of war it's just something that needs to be done in order to keep America safe.

Many right wing extremist(who I am sure you listen to and admire) wanted them exiled out of the USA and confused their acts of protest as an act of treason.Some even wanted them dead.I was one who was branded anti American because I questioned the war and my President.SO tell me, how is this that much different?

Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Hal Turner, and many other right wing pundits hint at killing liberals on a day to day basis so I do not think this is a stretch at all. O'Reilly instigated the Dr. Tiller murder. Hal Turner faced a judge this week for threatening Chicago Judges and Michael Savages wants to post the names,addresses,and photo's of those critics of his at media matters. Gee, wonder why?

Overblown? You know if a Republican YOU ADMIRED and agreed with said the same thing you would not be posting about it. You are a hypocrite and a joke,but what else is new?

Updated On: 6/26/09 at 06:53 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/29/09 at 12:00am

Ohhhhhh children. Gather round. Way back on the eve of the first Gulf War (summer 1990), I attended a pre-first-strike anti-war rally with such wild radicals as The Quakers. I thought, you know, once you make that first strike the genie's outta the bottle so maybe, AS AN AMERICAN, I should weigh in with my opinion that war, as Marvin Gaye sang in 19hundred and 71, is not the answer.

Anyhoo, it was a very quiet rally and very short march from point a to point b. Halfway between those points, me and the very quiet and very kindly looking and very peaceful mostly-white-haired Quakers encountered a very loud very frantic crowd of counter-protesters. I don't want to call them pro-war, because I want to believe that nobody is pro-war, but what they chanted was direct from a WWF match between Hacksaw Jim Duggan and The Iron Sheik (later busted for getting high together on wacky tobacky somewhere on I-95, if you want to talk about Theater of the Absurd). That's right: "U.S.A.! U.S.A!" like it was the Olympics and not a thing where people on one side KILLED people on the other and vice versa.

Later that night I tuned in as my local news broadcast coverage of the lead-up to the war. There was coverage of the very protest I had attended. Of course, the myth in America is that there are EXACTLY two sides to any given story and if the side of a progressive person is EVER included in the media, the "other side" must be represented. (Non-progressive issues are only presumed to have one side, so only one line of discussion is ever broached in such instances. For instance, if Puerto Rican Day festivities are covered, there is no effort to search out the KKK for counterpoint in the footage, but if Gay Pride is covered, there is ALWAYS inclusion of this fundamentalist or that Phelps family member.)

So, as footage of the quiet Quakers (and me) marching up the street with candles was shown, there was a voice over and then a quick zoom-in to a furious and very red-faced woman (a counter-protester) telling the newswoman, "If my brother dies over there, I blame these protesters!!!!!!"

This had a profound effect on my psyche. I have never been able to understand the math that woman did in her head, but somehow, I tell myself, it made logical sense to her. We, the people saying "Hey! Don't start a war!" would personally be responsible for the death of her brother, if, god forbid, he should be killed in the war we were protesting.

THAT is exactly what I think when I read one of Roxy's political posts.

OH, and the very next day, on whatever the CBS morning show was called back then, Harry Smith (who I had loved up until that very moment) shook his head gravely after coverage of an NYC anti-war protest and he said, and I'm paraphrasing, that you really had to wonder what such protesters were thinking. It was as if he were chiding us for not clapping hard enough to bring Tinkerbell back to life.

I think of THAT everytime Roxy says "So much for free speech" whenever a dilwad like Imus is justfiably called a racist, or whatnot.

Updated On: 6/29/09 at 12:00 AM