Iran Resorting To Torture

Watch how quickly the American media weighs in - don't hold your breath. That might qualify as torture to them, if you're American, that is.

“Garadaghli also said that Iranian law enforcement bodies are using torture on the detained Azerbaijani demonstrators making them say that the US and other Western states are behind these protests. Four protesters died of severe torture in the past two days.”

Comments

[lawbster]

resorting to torture? i wasn't aware they'd ever stopped.

[rwilymz]

Torture is a world-constant. Every nation, at all times in their individual histories, have undertaken torture for the standard reasons: To get information; to get revenge; to get leverage.

Civilized nations which have citizens who misguidedly believe that "civilized" means treating its enemies like friends think only bad people do torture so therefore the US [e.g.] is bad, but that nations the US doesn't like are entitled to use torture because, well, they're fighting the US and they have to use every weapon they have.

So Iran will continue to cut the fingers and cajones off its disidents and the American press will yawn, but when the CIA makes Gitmo detainees eat with their left hand and wipe their ass with their right they'll throw themselves on the pavement and kick and scream.

[Rick]

As long as they stop before putting panties on someone's head or allowing a dog to bark at them.

[Rick]

And now we're learning in the ALTERNATE media that the Marines weren't out of line in Haditha?

[lawbster]

no Rick they were just tweaked out on meth

[Rick]

That may be. Who freekin' knows anymore? Back in my single days, wearing panties on your head was anything but torture.

[jamie]

The sad truth is that it is not "news" that Iran is torturing people. We EXPECT them to torture people. That is why it doesn't get much coverage - it isn't "news" to anyone.

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