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"Iran is not such a bad country. I can know because I've been traveling it for 5 weeks. It's a weird place, with a govt that is not much supported by the educat

"Iran is not such a bad country. I can know because I've been traveling it for 5 weeks. It's a weird place, with a govt that is not much supported by the educated-youth. But not all that bad as the media try to make us believe." I'm sorry, but if the government of a country is going execute someone for "violating the sanctity of Islam", they are a bad country. By accepting this behavior, you are just allowing it to continue. I don't accept it and I will always be against a country that treats its citizens this way. More people need to stand up to this bullshit. "Believe me, here in the Netherlands I know some folks with strong sentiments agains the US, and I tell them the same: "The US is not such a bad country". So maybe it is just me :)" The US has some problems, but it's still better than 99% of the world in terms of freedom. Unlike the US, Most of the world has state-controlled media and an Internet Firewall. Hopefully, it never happens here in the US.

smokinn 15y ago
So "most of the world" is China and some muslim countries? I'm pretty sure Canada, India, most of Africa and pretty much all of Europe have neither state-controlled media nor an internet firewall. Of course, I do agree that people need to know about and boycott such regimes as much as they can.
mattmanser 15y ago
99%'s incredibly naive, more like 50%. Just to remind you America has: By far the highest incarceration rate of a 'free' country An abnormally high murder rate A recent history of torture and incarceration of foreigners without trial Not particularly free in my book, especially the propensity to lock up relatively high proportion of its own citizens.
- nate_meurer 15y ago
  Quite right. Plus, I'd like to add, highly corrupt legislative bodies. Perhaps not nearly as corrupt as in many other places, but the stench of money and cronyism is pervasive in American politics.
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pooriaazimi 15y ago
> By accepting this behavior, you are just allowing it to continue. I don't accept it and I will always be against a country that treats its citizens this way. More people need to stand up to this bullshit. I'm sorry, but you must be living in a dream world, where governments just sit back and allow the opposition to overthrow them... You know, it's a little harder to do that when the government in question is extremely rich (oil, gas, ...) and most things are state-owned, than in a country where the government lives off taxes and has to 'borrow' money from private banks!
nate_meurer 15y ago
Holy hyperbole! 99%? Most of the world has state-controlled media? If the Iranian government violates the human rights of its citizens, that makes Iran a "bad country"? Are you being serious?

smokinn 15y ago

So "most of the world" is China and some muslim countries? I'm pretty sure Canada, India, most of Africa and pretty much all of Europe have neither state-controlled media nor an internet firewall. Of course, I do agree that people need to know about and boycott such regimes as much as they can.

mattmanser 15y ago

99%'s incredibly naive, more like 50%. Just to remind you America has: By far the highest incarceration rate of a 'free' country An abnormally high murder rate A recent history of torture and incarceration of foreigners without trial Not particularly free in my book, especially the propensity to lock up relatively high proportion of its own citizens.

nate_meurer 15y ago
Quite right. Plus, I'd like to add, highly corrupt legislative bodies. Perhaps not nearly as corrupt as in many other places, but the stench of money and cronyism is pervasive in American politics.

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pooriaazimi 15y ago

> By accepting this behavior, you are just allowing it to continue. I don't accept it and I will always be against a country that treats its citizens this way. More people need to stand up to this bullshit. I'm sorry, but you must be living in a dream world, where governments just sit back and allow the opposition to overthrow them... You know, it's a little harder to do that when the government in question is extremely rich (oil, gas, ...) and most things are state-owned, than in a country where the government lives off taxes and has to 'borrow' money from private banks!

nate_meurer 15y ago

Holy hyperbole! 99%? Most of the world has state-controlled media? If the Iranian government violates the human rights of its citizens, that makes Iran a "bad country"? Are you being serious?