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No hoods! No electric shocks! No beatings! : The Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch galway |
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 Monday April 02, 2007 12:12 by TD - Cosantoiri Siochana
 Call that humiliation? In a Guardian article, Python, Terry Jones, lays into western hypocrisy with powerful sarcasm and flays the fucker to the bone - make your day and read full article? : I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives like this - allowing them to smoke cigarettes, for example, even though it has been proven that smoking kills. And as for compelling poor servicewoman Faye Turney to wear a black headscarf, and then allowing the picture to be posted around the world - have the Iranians no concept of civilised behaviour? For God's sake, what's wrong with putting a bag over her head? That's what we do with the Muslims we capture: we put bags over their heads, so it's hard to breathe. Then it's perfectly acceptable to take photographs of them and circulate them to the press because the captives can't be recognised and humiliated in the way these unfortunate British service people are ... |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Mr Jones,saying it like it is, and you've made my day!
What's your point? Do you believe that Iran has a better human rights record than America or Israel?
That the war on terror has been further exposed as the hypocracy it is. And that a so-called barberous enemy has behaved better in a crucial area of conflict than the US or Israel has.
The US/UK human rights record has been tainted, at the least since Guantanamo & 'extraordinary renditions'.
With all due respects to Terry Jones, Bush/Blair etc are soft targets when it comes to outing and laying into hypocrites.