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Forget Zimmerman, We have a Veteran in Iran held under false charge under penalty of death.
I cannot pass up such an article, and it's prescient nature lures me to spread it as wide as possible. Some quotes: "There is something very wrong with a state of affairs in which local elites feel entitled to American handouts but apparently do not fear the consequences of sentencing American citizens to death through political show trials. " but in ending: "It is a recognition that it is hard enough for governments to fulfill their most basic obligations to their citizenry without taking on additional responsibilities to others abroad. Moreover, it is a recognition that no one can and should discharge the sovereign responsibilities of a government for it, and that hoping for the opposite will yield only frustration and tears" It is very important, now more than ever that we ensure American Citizens the blanket of security we DO provide other nationals. And many nations have fallen into other hands. We still have people there and it is always scarry. This guy just wanted to see his Family, and Iran uses him as a political chip under sentence of death. He was not a hiker and he told them he was coming. They could have said no. That is end all be all - just wrong. They know it, does "POTUS" know it? What shall happen when we lose more of North Africa and the Middle East? Posted by: newc 2012-04-13 |
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