Tuesday, February 07, 2006
The Safety Net
I feel very sympathetic towards the plight of this journalist described here.
The problem with her is that she wrote her name and signed her fate onto a scrap of paper telling her feelings about the figure of Khomeini in the IRI. Unfortunately, she did not bend over and lick the soles of his feet like some journalists have done at various levels of governance; instead, Elham Afrutan used the analogy of the epidemic of AIDS to compare to 'Khomeini's revolution in the IRI.
I do think that the risk she played was very high and that the consequences they will give to her because of that risk-taking are unjust and criminal offenses to the rights of man themselves. She has the right to condone and or condemn that regime, but, unfortunately, not in the IRI.
So, remember kids, it isn't such a safe net after all.
The problem with her is that she wrote her name and signed her fate onto a scrap of paper telling her feelings about the figure of Khomeini in the IRI. Unfortunately, she did not bend over and lick the soles of his feet like some journalists have done at various levels of governance; instead, Elham Afrutan used the analogy of the epidemic of AIDS to compare to 'Khomeini's revolution in the IRI.
I do think that the risk she played was very high and that the consequences they will give to her because of that risk-taking are unjust and criminal offenses to the rights of man themselves. She has the right to condone and or condemn that regime, but, unfortunately, not in the IRI.
So, remember kids, it isn't such a safe net after all.
