not to worry, the usual suspects will be in shortly to defend Iran.

Yeah, outdated. We all know how much society changes over in the middle east.

Yes, because only black people were hung from nooses.

stuhayes2010: Yes, because only black people were hung from nooses.

But definatley not gays because there are no gays in Iran.

Troops to the left of me, troops to the right! Here I am... Stuck in the middle with you. ~ Ahmadinejad.

Joe Blowme: stuhayes2010: Yes, because only black people were hung from nooses.

But definatley not gays because there are no gays in Iran.

But they are really nice to the transgender community!

Maybe they just force gay ment to be turned into women!!?!?!

More like "Iranic," right?

GIS Iran human rights. about 1/3 the images are people being lynched.


Too tired to be outraged.

If you treat your citizens worse in the 21st century than you did in the 6th century BC, then you might have a human rights problem.

Joe Blowme: stuhayes2010: Yes, because only black people were hung from nooses.

But definatley not gays because there are no gays in Iran.

The noose thread is over there. (new window)

Well, a bunch of really, really old motherfarkers have appointed themselves government-for-eternity and the country is like 50% under 30 years old. There's only two ways to keep that kind of situation stable, and they sure as hell aren't going to allow actual, legitimate elections so that basically narrows it down to control through violence.

Jim_Callahan: control through violence.

Orwellian control too. That's a possibility.

I mean, violence is involved but it's generally under-wraps.

In before "glass parking lot"

They would know:

Iran and human rights - two things that definitely don't go well together. In fact, there's no country on Earth with a Muslim majority and a good track record on human rights, if you define human rights as being willing to tolerate people who aren't their brand of Muslim. Why do liberals support Islam, given that they'd all be persecuted and/or dead if the US were Muslim instead of nominally Christian?