Comments on: Iran Charges 3 American Hikers With Espionage

By: JeffersonDavis

JeffersonDavis — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:34:42 +0000

I truly feel for these hikers and hope they get out of there. If Bill or Hillary can do it, God speed.

However, I have a seemingly bad-taste question:

Do they not teach Geography at UC Berkeley?

By: PRESS TV: Iran charges 3 US hikers with espionage; death penalty looms | Daily Babel

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:03:38 +0000

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By: dduck12

dduck12 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:42:04 +0000

Will Bill go again?

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:24:42 +0000

The moral of the story is: Don't hike in areas engaged in hostilities with the US and its citizens.

Like duh..

By: spirasol

spirasol — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:07:04 +0000

If it's true and we can accept the story at face value then I feel badly for the young people being held. On the other hand, we wouldn't say they were too bright to put themselves in that position. It is the USA that has such strict requirements that people may be “messed with” , deported, or held in detention for months on end. Their Arab American, some with citizenship, some with permanent status, and some on educational permit, are constantly messed with. But their are hundreds more rejected out right. So I would hardly say Iran is guilty of some unprecedented legal foot work to hold foreign students. Hell, anything Iran has done, we have done better, stronger, tighter, sometimes even killing the people we incarcerate. Don't get squeamish on me here………..We do ourselves a huge disservice by trying to sell the wonders of democracy in the middle east, when our actual behavior is actually quite different. We are excellent at doing the raping, pillaging, bombing, destroying part……the rendering, torturing, shoot first ask later part…………..If the CIA wanted to infiltrate new recruits would it be possible to send agents posing as students?

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:28:39 +0000

Iran isn't lashing out at the citizens of the US as much as it is lashing out at technology. Might I suggest in the future that tourists not carry cellphones with camera/video capabilities? That's what all the fuss is about. And in this sense the iranian officials are on the same page with Rupert Murdock and backers who seek to limit the flow of information.

Oppressive regimes are extremely hard to maintain in the face of the free flow of information. They all feel like they're swimming against the ever-strengthening current and losing ground. This scares the crap out of them and they're going to take action against technology. Again kids, just carry cellphones without cameras when “relaxing” in regions that are utterly not into you being there.