No hoods! No electric shocks! No beatings! : The Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch

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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 ...

... What's more, it is clear that the Iranians are not giving their British prisoners any decent physical exercise. The US military make sure that their Iraqi captives enjoy PT. This takes the form of exciting "stress positions", which the captives are expected to hold for hours on end so as to improve their stomach and calf muscles. A common exercise is where they are made to stand on the balls of their feet and then squat so that their thighs are parallel to the ground. This creates intense pain and, finally, muscle failure. It's all good healthy fun and has the bonus that the captives will confess to anything to get out of it ...

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Soft target

by Mars

Mon Apr 09, 2007 09:37

With all due respects to Terry Jones, Bush/Blair etc are soft targets when it comes to outing and laying into hypocrites.

redefined

by chrissie

Sun Apr 08, 2007 19:56

The US/UK human rights record has been tainted, at the least since Guantanamo & 'extraordinary renditions'.

The point is...

by Goblin

Thu Apr 05, 2007 19:13

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.

What's your point?

by Barker

Thu Apr 05, 2007 19:05

What's your point? Do you believe that Iran has a better human rights record than America or Israel?

good on ye

by Mary Kelly

Wed Apr 04, 2007 20:22

Mr Jones,saying it like it is, and you've made my day!

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No hoods! No electric shocks! No beatings! : The Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch

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