by Commodore on July 2, 2010
It's time to progress
I think I might have had an article of that same exact title a few months back (but I can’t be bothered to check) in regards to a stoning in some bass ackwards society. And now, is deja vu all over again.
Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, is waiting to die…She will be buried up to her chest, deeper than a man would be, and the stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately, according to an Amnesty International report that cited the Iranian penal code.
The Iranian Penal Code. That thing is about as with-the-times as a fucking sun dial. How can shit like this still happen? I understand that there is capital punishment for the most horrible cri- Hm? What was that? She’s being killed for what?
Ashtiani was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes. 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. She has asked forgiveness from the court but the judges refused to grant clemency. Iran’s supreme court upheld the conviction in 2007. Mostafaei (her lawyer) believes a language barrier prevented his client from fully comprehending court proceedings. Ashtiani is of Azerbaijani descent and speaks Turkish, not Farsi.
So a woman gets whipped 99 times and then confesses to something in a language she doesn’t even speak and is now going to be buried up to her chest and have rocks thrown at her that are specifically sized to not kill her immediately. WTF.
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 Mina Ahadi, coordinator for the International Committee Against Stoning. But there were no witnesses in Ashtiani’s case.
No witnesses. Seems like an open and shut case.
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by Commodore on April 28, 2010
I see that, Mr. Ahmadinejad
Hey ladies, stumped about where to take your next vacation? Don’t be lame by deciding on a stay-cation, make it an Ir-ation!
Brig Hossien Sajedinia, Tehran’s police chief, said: “The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehaviour by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values. In some areas of north Tehran we can see many suntanned women and young girls who look like walking mannequins.”
(Brig. What a name.) Boy, the radical interpretation of Allah doesn’t sound so akbar. Who new Vitamin-D was such an insult?
“We are not going to tolerate this situation and will first warn those found in this manner and then arrest and imprison them.”
Oh, they get a warning first? Touche Iran. I see that you are making a move back towards the moorings of sensibility and decency. The only problem is, you still need 10-miles of cable to reach them.
(Lindsay Lohan, if you can read and are in fact reading this, I’m just teasing, Tehran is really great. Please go visit. Pwetty pwetty pweese!)
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by Commodore on December 17, 2009
Just because the little guy attacked, doesn't make this a fair fight
Most would agree that our military and technological advantages over our enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan are nothing short of blinding. It’s akin to the 200 Spanish riding on horseback who defeated the Aztecs by themselves. It’s like we’re fighting an enemy stuck in the Bronze Age. And yet, when they thwart us, we find a way to blame something else.
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes’ systems.
See what they did there? Forget the fact that a $26 off-the-shelf piece of hardware s able to infiltrate the mighty U.S. military, the important point is that it was an Iranian’s idea! How dare the Iranians try to fight back against an enemy they despise! Rat bastards! Down with the Iranians! (The masses cheer.)
The drone intercepts mark the emergence of a shadow cyber war within the U.S.-led conflicts overseas.
Is that what you’re calling this? A shadow cyber war? I still think we have a slight advantage, no? A couple of dudes go to an electronic store and buy a household item to try and defend themselves from unmanned aircraft and laser guided bombs and this is now a cyber war? That would be like someone showing up to a quarrel with a new found musket while his opponents have Gatling guns and the scholars calling it, “an emergence of a shadow gun fight”. WTF
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by Commodore on March 26, 2009
This is more over the top than Over the Top
BROWTF was recently doing a SWOT analysis figuring out where it would be best to operate this amazingly profound website of ours and Iran and the U.S. were neck and neck but the good old US of A inched ahead when we found out that Iran wants to legally KILL bloggers who “write about and promote illegal activity”. That seems a bit strong, doesn’t it?
I don’t know how the natural progression of “criminals that deserve to die” goes from murders to rapists to drug users, to adulterers (snap, I’m screwed!), to gays (wow), to now…bloggers???? What’s next, are they going to throw people in jail without officially charging them with anything???? haha…Oh wait, George Bush did that here in the U.S. My bad.
Anyway, BROWTF would be fucked in Iran since we have written about blowing things up, killing people, and shoving large objects up the rectums of certain individuals all of which might be deemed “illegal” in a court of law.
We’ll take our chances in America even if Habeus Corpus has been thrown in a van and brought to an unknown location.
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