Immoral USA cannot throw stones to stop stoning
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: Immoral USA cannot throw stones to stop stoning
Date: Jul 6, 2010 6:31 AM
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Whoops. Oh, well. The mass-murdering
hypocrites of the Fourth Reich USA can't
exactly ask Iran not to stone the lady [below].
People will say, "Well, youz Americans refer
to the deaths of a million-and-a-half innocents
as 'collateral damage,' while 25% of Americans
are unemployed, 25% of Americans 'work' for 'The
Government' and the rest wait tables, change bed-
pans, or waste time, research dollars and lives
with ridiculous notions of tamed spirochetes and
an epidemic of 'witches with magical powers':
http://www.actionlyme.org/070430.htm
"
People will say, "Welp, that Iraq 'Viceroy'
thang didn't work out too well for ya, did
it? Did the likes of AIG-Kroll (the Mossad
911 crew) and their ilk gamble for a new source
of petrodollars? Youz hypocrites still haven't
told the world who planted the thermate in WTC7.
http://www.actionlyme.org/070426.htm
"
The so-called Christians, Muslims, Jews and
the self-alleged secular philosophers are having
a contest; no one in the world has standing to
comment.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.stoning/index.html
(CNN) -- A veteran Iranian human rights activist has warned that
Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, could be stoned to death
at any moment under the terms of a death sentence handed down by
Iranian authorities.
Only an international campaign designed to pressure the regime in
Tehran can save her life, according to Mina Ahadi, head of the
International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty.
"Legally it's all over," Ahadi said Sunday. "It's a done deal. Sakineh
can be stoned at any minute."
"That is why we have decided to start a very broad, international
public movement. Only that can help."
Video: Mother to be stoned to death
RELATED TOPICS
* Amnesty International
* Iran
Ashtiani, 42, will be buried up to her chest, according to an Amnesty
International report citing the Iranian penal code. The stones that
will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so
large as to kill her immediately.
Ashtiani, who is from the northern city of Tabriz, was convicted of
adultery in 2006.
She was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes, human
rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei said Thursday in a telephone
interview from Tehran.
She later retracted that confession and has denied wrongdoing. Her
conviction was based not on evidence but on the determination of three
out of five judges, Mostafaei said. She has asked forgiveness from the
court but the judges refused to grant clemency.
Iran's supreme court upheld the conviction in 2007.
The majority of those sentenced to death by stoning are women
--Amnesty International
Mostafaei believes a language barrier prevented his client from fully
comprehending court proceedings. Ashtiani is of Azerbaijani descent
and speaks Turkish, not Farsi.
The circumstances of Ashtiani's case make it not an exception but the
rule in Iran, according to Amnesty International, which tracks death
penalty cases around the world.
"The majority of those sentenced to death by stoning are women, who
suffer disproportionately from such punishment," the human rights
group said in a 2008 report.
On Wednesday, Amnesty made a new call to the Iranian government to
immediately halt all executions and commute all death sentences. The
group has recorded 126 executions in Iran from the start of this year
to June 6.
"The organization is also urging the authorities to review and repeal
death penalty laws, to disclose full details of all death sentences
and executions and to join the growing international trend towards
abolition," the statement said.
Ahadi, who fled Iran in the early 1980s, told CNN that pressure from
Amnesty and other organizations and individuals is likely the only way
to save Ashtiani.
"Experience shows (that) ... when the pressure gets very high, the
Islamic government starts to say something different," she said.
In Washington, the State Department has criticized the scheduled
stoning, saying it raised serious concerns about human rights
violations by the Iranian government.
"We have grave concerns that the punishment does not fit the alleged
crime, " Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley said Thursday. "For
a modern society such as Iran, we think this raises significant human
rights concerns."
Calling Iran's judicial system "disproportionate" in its treatment of
women, Crowley said, "From the United States' standpoint, we don't
think putting women to death for adultery is an appropriate
punishment."
Human rights activists have been pushing the Islamic government to
abolish stoning, arguing that women are not treated equally before the
law in Iran and are especially vulnerable in the judicial system. A
woman's testimony is worth half that of a man, they say.
Article 74 of the Iranian penal code requires at least four witnesses
-- four men or three men and two women -- for an adulterer to receive
a stoning sentence, said Ahadi, of the International Committee Against
Stoning. But there were no witnesses in Ashtiani's case. Often, said
Ahadi, husbands turn wives in to get out of a marriage.
Mostafaei said he could not understand how such a savage method of
death could exist in the year 2010 or how an innocent woman could be
taken from her son and daughter, who have written to the court
pleading for their mother's life.
The public won't be allowed to witness the stoning, Mostafaei said,
for fear of condemnation of such a brutal method. He is hoping there
won't be an execution.
Mostafaei, who himself did jail time in the aftermath of the disputed
presidential elections in June 2009, said he realizes the risk of
speaking out for Ashtiani, for fighting for human rights. But he
doesn't let that deter him.
He last saw Ashtiani five months ago behind bars in Tabriz. Since
then, he said, he has been searching for a way to save her from the
stones.
CNN's Moni Basu, Ben Brumfield, Bobby Afshar, Gena Somra, Mitra
Mobasherat and Elise Labott contributed to this report.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci
David E. Powell
> To: dwhe...@forbes.com, ca...@drcarolgoodheart.com,
So your position is that it is a good thing for an Iranian woman to be
stoned to death and a bad thing to protest it? Dude, just leave the
planet now. Just get on a one way rocket to Charon (Pluto is too good
for you.)
Dennis
> Subject: Immoral USA cannot throw stones to stop stoning
Ah, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. <hint> <hint>
<hint>
"Everybody must get stoned!"
- Bob Dylan
Andrew Chaplin
news:Xns9DAF92C9EB6DAts...@130.133.4.11:
> Nutty Kathleen wrote:
>
>> Subject: Immoral USA cannot throw stones to stop stoning
>
> Ah, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. <hint>
> <hint> <hint>
>
> "Everybody must get stoned!"
> - Bob Dylan
People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
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Dan Sullivan
Dennis
> Please stop cross posting to alt.support.child-protective-services
>
Good idea, considering how the content has degenerated! :-(
Dennis
Mort Zuckerman
Don't be a tard.
DCF whorey-glories are responsible for
many, many deaths and disability
related to the crime of "Lyme Disease."
Instead, these DCF sluts support the notion
that "sex cures all diseases."
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
Richard
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. Just because you're an asexual
fruitbat doesn't mean the rest of us need to follow your example.
Dennis
> On Jul 8, 10:29 pm, Dennis <tsalagi18NOS...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Dan Sullivan wrote:
>> > Please stop cross posting to alt.support.child-protective-services
>>
>> Good idea, considering how the content has degenerated! :-(
>>
>> Dennis
>
> Don't be a tard.
Who the tard is here is pretty clear.
> DCF whorey-glories are responsible for
> many, many deaths and disability
> related to the crime of "Lyme Disease."
>
> Instead, these DCF sluts support the notion
> that "sex cures all diseases."
>
> Kathleen M. Dickson
> http://www.actionlyme.org
A daft spammer here vents her spleen
And her name is Nutty Kathleen.
And plain it appears
Yes, she has two ears,
But absolutely nothing between!
Mort Zuckerman
Except for the part where the DCF tards
criminally charged me with "intelligent"
speaking to how OFF THE CHARTS STUPID
they are,
LOL.
Dennis
>> > Don't be a tard.
>>
>> Who the tard is here is pretty clear.
>>
>> > DCF whorey-glories are responsible for
>> > many, many deaths and disability
>> > related to the crime of "Lyme Disease."
>>
>> > Instead, these DCF sluts support the notion
>> > that "sex cures all diseases."
>>
>> > Kathleen M. Dickson
>> >http://www.actionlyme.org
>>
>> A daft spammer here vents her spleen
>> And her name is Nutty Kathleen.
>> And plain it appears
>> Yes, she has two ears,
>> But absolutely nothing between!
>
> Except for the part where the DCF tards
> criminally charged me with "intelligent"
> speaking to how OFF THE CHARTS STUPID
> they are,
> LOL.
You have a sense of humor! Good for you.
Dennis