[lbo-talk] factchecking the gay Iranian teens story

Gary? slade.g at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 22:53:38 PDT 2005


On 8/9/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [since I spread around Doug Ireland's first report on this, I should
> circulate this corrective]
>

I should bloody well think so too. There is an effort to demonise Iran at the moment and I would have thought that that atmosphere would demand close scrutiny of sensational 'news' reports. Once again I wonder at the reason for posting, in the corrective are the stats we all know only too well that the US can execute minors and the mentally retarded along with the most so called repressive regimes. Iran may execute a couple of boys and yes that is terrible in the true sense of the word but the US is 'executing' tens of thousand of Iraqis, regardless of sexual orientation, age or health and yet we damn Iran for something that quite recently could have happened in Texas, and probably did.

Gary? ride si sapis



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