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2004-08-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran's parliament refuses to define political crimes

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Posted by Fred 2004-08-19 12:04:43 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Statute 156 E-T-507. TURBAN PRESENTATION
When a citizen wraps his turban improperly, praise Allah, he shall receive 40 lashes, praise Allah, and because this is considered subversive, praise Allah, he shall then be buried up to his neck and stoned. It is written.

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-19 12:30:07 PM|| 2004-08-19 12:30:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 âIf political crime was defined, many of those who are imprisoned today for undermining state security would be free today,â

I'm sorry you got that wrong. With the correct definition ALL mullahs would be in jail.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-08-19 3:04:03 PM|| 2004-08-19 3:04:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 âIf political crime was defined, many of those who are imprisoned today for undermining state security would be free today,â legal expert Ali Najafi Tavana told ISNA.

Personally, I don't think it really matters much; when the highest authority in the land is a cleric the likes of Khamenei, any written law isn't going to be worth the paper it's printed on.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-19 3:46:30 PM|| 2004-08-19 3:46:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 This reminds me very little of the old Soviet Union's rule of law. Essentially, what you do is make so many different types of behavior illegal that everybody is guilty of something. All that remains is for them to come and arrest you at the time of their choosing.

So it is in Iran. Without any clear delineation of what constitutes political crime, the definition of it remains completely arbitrary and is subject to the arbiter's whim. Another good analogy would be the Middle Ages. Since the Bible was printed only in Latin, the commoner usually could not read it and was subject to whatever interpretation was decided upon by whichever authority. The potential for abuse of power was effectively unlimited.

Iran is clearly a proponent of stone age mentality. I say let's bomb them back to the stone age so that their environment and thinking will match. Symmetry has a beauty all its own.

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-19 4:45:02 PM|| 2004-08-19 4:45:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Symmetry has a beauty all its own

It is a pity a culture which produced the likes of Omar Khayyam, to whom we all owe a debt in re Mathematics, Music, Poetry!

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-19 4:54:27 PM|| 2004-08-19 4:54:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 It is a pity a culture which produced the likes of Omar Khayyam, to whom we all owe a debt in re Mathematics, Music, Poetry!

Come on, BigEd, that's a fragment. Please complete the thought. "It's a pity" how, in what way, for what reason?

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-19 8:53:34 PM|| 2004-08-19 8:53:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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