[Iran Press TV Latest] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned the advocates of "freedom of speech" about the sincerity of their conviction. I think we've been through this before, starting with Boris the Lop Eared Serbian Troll, in fact...
After Israeli advocates staged a walkout in the midst of the Iranian president's speech at the UN anti-racism summit, President Ahmadinejad criticized the "so-called advocates of freedom of information." "Why is it that the so-called advocates of freedom of information fear hearing other people's opinions," the Iranian president asked.
Probably because they've heard them before, and found them tedious. It really is hard to improve on Julius Streicher. Freedom for you to speak doesn't bring with it a concommitant requirement that we listen. We're just as free to dismiss your opinion as soon as you begin speaking as you have been to dismiss ours since 1979.
Speaking at a news conference in Geneva after addressing the United Nations conference on racism, President Ahmadinejad described the countries which boycotted or walked out of the UN anti-racism summit as "arrogant and selfish." "In our opinion, this is arrogance and selfishness and the root cause of the world's problems," President Ahmadinejad told the Monday press conference.
He just made a speech calling for an entire nation to be wiped off the face of the earth and he's complaining that people didn't sit rooted to the spot listening to him, and he criticizes them for being "arrogant and selfish"?"The subject of this conference is anti-racism and the advocates of racism did not attend this summit," he added.
Some of us are of the opinion that they did.
The Iranian president's speech at the Durban Review Conference at the UN European headquarters was disrupted several times by protesters who shouted slogans and held placards before they were escorted out of the conference room by security guards.
I thought the clown wigs kinda ruined the whole effect...
President Ahmadinejad's anti-Israeli remarks also caused 23 European Union delegatees to walk out of the conference room.