Iran hangs ten on Christmas Eve
posted at 10:46 am on December 28, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
Unfortunately, that’s not a surfing reference. While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got a television platform in the UK to pass along a propaganda message to the West on how to celebrate a holiday his nation abhors, the Iranians celebrated by playing Christmas Tree with ten prisoners:
Norway deplores the executions of 10 persons in Iran on Christmas Eve. Prior to the executions Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere appealed to Iran to stop in time and not go ahead with the executions. …
Last week Norway aligned itself with an EU declaration on the mass executions in Tehran’s Evin Prison on 26 November and other repeated violations of human rights that have taken place in Iran lately.
The Government is concerned about the human rights situation in Iran in general. Two days ago the Iranian authorities closed the Center for Defence of Human Rights in Tehran, The centre was established and headed by the Iranian lawyer and human rights defender Shirin Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
Legal Insurrection reminds us of Ahmadinejad’s exhortations to the West on the proper celebration of Christmas:
On Christmas Day, British television Channel 4 provided Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a platform to broadcast “an alternative Christmas message on British television to rival Queen Elizabeth II’s annual address.” In the message, Ahmadinejad said that “if Christ were on Earth today, undoubtedly he would hoist the banner of justice and love for humanity to oppose warmongers, occupiers, terrorists and bullies the world over.” The speech received widespread media attention.
Undoubtedly, He would — and Ahmadinejad and his terrorist regime would qualify under all four categories.
Interestingly, no global news agencies bothered to cover the Christmas Eve hangings, despite the worldwide attention focused on Ahmadinejad’s Christmas message. Nor has there been any significant coverage of the Christmas week closing of the human-rights center that belied Ahmadinejad’s holiday message. It seems as though the media only has an interest in acting as a repeater station for tyrants rather than hold them accountable for their actions.
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Iran needs to go.
Viper1 on December 28, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Well wait. What were their crimes? We employ capitol punishment. Why were they hanged? I would like to know before I assume a self righteous pose.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Insanity.
Marcus on December 28, 2008 at 10:58 AM
As an advocate of capital punishment, I have to know what the crimes were before I get all excited about this.
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 11:01 AM
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Dr Evil on December 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Probably free-speech advocates. In other words, adulterers, homosexuals, murderers, and thieves.
Marcus on December 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Well regardless of the crime having a public MASS execution is grotesque.
ernesto on December 28, 2008 at 11:04 AM
I can’t imagine the rules for capitol punishment in Iran have changed..for the better anyway.
Dr Evil on December 28, 2008 at 11:08 AM
ronsfi, bishop it doesn’t matter why they were hanged. The comparison isn’t between the US and Iran, it’s between Europe and Iran. Europeans are all self congratulatory over how they no longer have capital punishment and are constantly bashing us for having it, through every media outlet they have in news coverage and even in tv dramas. (It’s that and how much they care about “climate change.”) In their excitement to trash a Christian holiday, they wouldn’t let a little thing like capital punishment stop them from having Ahmadinejad on.
MargaretMN on December 28, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Well that may be but they also hang murderers and thieves. You don’t know what their crimes were. You assume all and know nothing. If they hung in Texas you would be cheering. So let’s just follow our revered principals and not pass judgment until we know the facts.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 11:10 AM
MargaretMN on December 28, 2008 at 11:08 AM
So this thread is just feeding the fire that most of us here at HA have been stoking for years: Europe’s hypocrisy and holier than thou mentality towards the United States. The EU is slowly slipping away into dhimmitude, that much is obvious and has been for quite some time.
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Margarett: Good point.
RedSoxNation on December 28, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Well regardless of the crime having a public MASS execution is grotesque.
ernesto on December 28, 2008 at 11:04 AM
I don’t know, a little part of me likes the idea of opening such events here in the states to a broader audience. I’m not talking about televising it, but perhaps an age-restricted audience behind the courthouse, especially in places like Compton, might have a positive effect.
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 11:22 AM
um…
Anyway, they were political prisoners.
You could have looked it up, if you weren’t making your own assumptions.
I doubt too many people would be cheering at a mass public execution these days, even in Texas.
Like passing judgement that Texans are somehow execution-hungry folks, who would cheer at a mass public hanging?
I believe that entire post of yours falls into the category of “self-pwnage”.
reaganaut on December 28, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Ooooh, Norway is concerned about what Iran does? Dang, that’s got to have Mad Mahmoud shakin’ in his booties….
I have to agree with those who say we can’t make a real, 100% solid judgment without knowing what crimes got these people to the necktie party.
And, frankly, Iran can do what it wants within its own borders. And it will; change will not come from the EU weenies moaning and wringing their hands. The only way for Iran to become a “modern” nation is for its own people to revolt against the current regime or for the nutball Mullahs to do something so heinous that we — and probably Israel — decide to straighten them out by force.
MrScribbler on December 28, 2008 at 11:24 AM
It’s a sad situation. A bunch of the European nations that look down at us and criticize our unsophistication would not have their freedom if not for military assistance from us in their history. And now they’re trying to deal with Islamic issues in their countries. I say take your sophistication and deal with it.
kingsjester on December 28, 2008 at 11:24 AM
send code pink back there, they were trying people diplomacy last month.
rob verdi on December 28, 2008 at 11:26 AM
and a hap-py New Year…. Wonder what they have planned for that. Bamboo splinters shoved up under the fingernails, beheadings, bum fights?
Hog Wild on December 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM
You mean Obama’s base.
We could do with a lot more executions in this country. Our murderers get three hots and a cot for 20 years paid for by us before they (usually) die of natural causes. It brings new meaning to death row.
Mojave Mark on December 28, 2008 at 11:34 AM
The EU issued a declaration against the human-rights violations in Iran? And it was ignored?!
Well then, it’s time to take it to the next level.
It’s time for a strongly worded letter!
dish on December 28, 2008 at 11:36 AM
It doesn’t matter why they were hanged? Really! It makes all the difference to me. And you know what? I don’t want to hear any effing more about your stupid “Christian” holiday that is really a pagan celebration of Saturnalia that has lost all meaning beyond brutal hardcore consumption. Christians demand we talk the talk but in their own lives refuse to walk the walk. America is now comprised of many peoples who have different religious traditions and so European Christianity must take it’s place along side them. As an equal. Christianity no can no longer claim primacy. Even though that has been our tradition. These good people are here and they Americans and they will drive our future as much as any other wave of immigrants has. Embrace the change.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 11:37 AM
I can see why Channel 4, Britain’s ‘alternative content’ station, chose Dinnerjacket to deliver his ‘alternative christmas message’.
It doesn’t get much more alternative than this.
Ares on December 28, 2008 at 11:38 AM
Wouldn’t it be nice if BHO announced direct, face to face negotiations with Iran’s human rights victims and the Center for Defence of Human Rights.
Mark30339 on December 28, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Fat chance now that we’ve been castrated. Go Israel.
Ernest on December 28, 2008 at 11:43 AM
I don’t want to hear any effing more about your stupid “Christian” holiday that is really a pagan celebration of Saturnalia that has lost all meaning beyond brutal hardcore consumption.
Quick question: Did your employer give you a paid holiday for Christmas Day?
Did you reimburse your employer for daring to include you in the “stupid Christian holiday that is really a pagan celebration of Saturnalia that has lost all meaning beyond brutal hardcore consumption?”
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Funny I can’t remember the last time we held a mass public hanging down here. But it must have happened because ronsfi the authority on everything Texas said so.
dumbass!
conservnut on December 28, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Proof that Iran did something Humane and just?
Christmas is a pagan Holiday?
You’re F—-n with us, Right?
Ernest on December 28, 2008 at 11:58 AM
They were political prisoners? Well please supply a link. I have no doubt that Iran kills innocents but I refuse any knee jerk reaction based on bigotry. You idiots who want to “Glass” Iran, (and I count you among them based only on statistical probability), fail to realize the value of human life that thrives in that nation. Fail to revere the ancient Persian Culture that has driven human progress far longer our European Culture has. Without minimizing the wests beautiful climb toward our current enlightened state. None of our advances would have fruited without the fundamental structure set forth by the Persians of antiquity. I for one dare not wipe out the primary culture that lead to modern civilization. We may need it yet.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Oh, this doesn’t compare to the atrocities at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, but then again, what does?
The irony of all ironies is that one day it’s going to be reporters hanging like Christmas ornaments, and it won’t be the Right that puts them there.
The only consolation to Britain going down the crapper is that we have an opportunity to learn from their many mistakes.
EMD on December 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM
More and more, reading comments like yours…I don’t know if I’m “with you”.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 12:01 PM
The “crimes” don’t matter. In Iran, they can just make up reasons to hang you. Then they do it. End of story. There is no justice in Iran except whatever the mullahs decide is justice, based on that rag they call the queeran. At least in Texas criminals get a fair trial before sentencing. There is no comparison between the US and Iran. Europe is lost. They will be an islamic theocracy in another generation or two. We will follow, unless sane minds can take back the Congress and shut down all immigration of muslims. It’s not a religion so much as a political movement. They aim to dominate. They are here under the guise of a “peaceful religion”, using our laws against us, filing frivolous lawsuits via the terrorist organization CAIR and the communist front group ACLU. And our liberal judges just let the cases go forward instead of dismissing them out of hand. Pathetic. We need another revolution to get back on track. Viva la Constitution….
Jarhead68 on December 28, 2008 at 12:05 PM
I ,for one, am for public hanging if justfully so proscribed.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 12:07 PM
There you go…. breakin my heart.
Ernest on December 28, 2008 at 12:08 PM
I’m with you Jarhead
Ernest on December 28, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Jarhead68 gets it.
ronsfi,
Iran (Persia) is the gangrene infested hand on the builder of civilization and must be removed before the whole body becomes infected and dies.
thomasaur on December 28, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Oh hell no! I got double time because I worked. And I did most certainly not reimburse my employer for giving me our agreed upon compensation any more than you did on Labor Day, (a socialist holiday).
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 12:13 PM
I wish Bush (just before he leaves office) would break ground for a new parking lot that would stretch from the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east, to the border of Iraq in the west…
D2Boston on December 28, 2008 at 12:14 PM
“It seems as though the media only has an interest in acting as a repeater station for tyrants rather than hold them accountable for their actions.”
When so-called journalists’ lives are threatened, you bet your bippy that they will be shills for the bullies of the world. (That’s one way of knowing that Dubya isn’t one—they decimate him in the world press…Dubya is as tolerant and liberal as you can get and it escapes their infected eyes.)
Christine on December 28, 2008 at 12:18 PM
………
I deleted what I wanted to say to you.
Persian culture is a treasure to humanity and should we lose it we would lose the core of our civilization.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Theocratic tyrannies always go especially mad.
God-intoxicated megalomaniacs need to be kept out of power.
Islam, ultimately, must be debunked before there will be peace.
An historical analysis of the accretions of the Koran is the place to start.
It is Islam’s Achilles’ heel.
profitsbeard on December 28, 2008 at 12:20 PM
They probably weren’t homos. They get stoned…
sabbott on December 28, 2008 at 12:21 PM
I wish we could just “hang ten (or twenty)” down in Gitmo. But I am kind of a jerk sometimes.
HawaiiLwyr on December 28, 2008 at 12:23 PM
1. The Iranian govt. is a slime ball, evil, religious dictatorship.
(So the Iranians hung 10 on Christmas Eve, how many the day, week, month before that?)
2. The reference to “Christmas Eve” does not have much meaning to the Muslims of Iran does it? It is December 24th to them, not Christmas Eve. (Or don’t they even use a different calendar – there is no December 24th to them.) If someone were executed in a non-Muslim country on the eve of Ramadan would it mean much to the western Christian world? Would the execution be held up because it is on the eve of Ramadan?
3. Britain’s Channel 4 is stupid for its alternative Christmas message gimmick.
4. The Europeans governments are wimp, whining bureaucrats who can doing nothing to influence the Iranians (or anything else in the world). They huff and puff and pontificate arrogantly will hoping they make it through their term in office without having to make a real decision of consequence.
albill on December 28, 2008 at 12:28 PM
AMEN! All immigration of muslims and building of mosques need to be halted now.
becki51758 on December 28, 2008 at 12:28 PM
I laugh in the face of you idiots who say “Europe is lost” Please go there and experience the deep historical continuity, the timeline, the story on every nook and corner. Then tell me it’s lost. Europe is lost…Feh! Europe has survived millenia, we have barely made 2 1/2 centuries. You really think those people over there don’t know anything? You don’t think they have mastered civilization to some degree? Europe’s brilliant cultural tradition may someday save our own.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 12:32 PM
What revered principals are those? And how would you know what I would cheer or not cheer? Do I know you?
Dr Evil on December 28, 2008 at 12:38 PM
They also kill rape victims and gays. You know, for the crimes of being raped and being gay. They kill free speech advocates and political dissidents.
Just more media malpractice. They constantly gloss over the actions of Iran. Dinnerjacket is just a figurehead.
Krydor on December 28, 2008 at 12:42 PM
No. You don’t know me. FucI< 0ff!
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM
And when the islamo-fascists take over and destroy all that history and “brilliant cultural tradition” like they did in Afghanistan, then what?
conservnut on December 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Sounds like someone has been watching those antiquated European travelogues and assuming it’s like that now over there. Things have changed in Europe and not for the better.
dms on December 28, 2008 at 12:45 PM
According to iranhr.net, one woman and 9 men were executed in two locations. The woman was convicted of murdering her step daughter, and the man hanged in another location was convicted of drug trafficking. No word on the 9 men’s offenses.
darkpixel on December 28, 2008 at 12:46 PM
So what is the standard for insulting a fellow commenter what gets a Troll booted off this board? Insult Me I respond and you use a Foul Obscenity? Let me Email this to Ed so he can take a look.
Dr Evil on December 28, 2008 at 12:48 PM
ronsfi– You are a terrible uncercover agent for the Iranian Secret Police. You must learn to be shocked by barbarity and anti-Christian thuggary. Please report to Tehran for remedial training.
Amad-man-in-a-dinner-jacket
FalseProfit on December 28, 2008 at 12:49 PM
I saw a Documentary about two year ago on The Iranian People. It made me pretty upset. There are thousands of Iranians that want freedom in their Country. Not only do they get raped, murdered for being Gay. They get killed for listening to Rock music. There are a lot of Gays in Iran. And they fear life every day. Dinnerjacket is a sick man. When he came to the UN, I was hoping some crack pot would do his butt in.
sheebe on December 28, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Wow, dude. You make it sound as if the gifts we purchase freely with our own money to share with our loved ones or with charities are stolen at the point of a gun. Or sales clerks are beaten into submission and forced to hand over their merchandise, or something. The latter sounds more like Socialism or Communism, but I digress.
As for your demand that we give up our culture and “embrace change”, that’s an excellent argument against allowing untrammeled immigration from alien cultures. The easiest solution is to revert to , when preference was given to heirs of Western civilization – such as to the Irish, Brits and so forth.
Thanks!
Buy Danish on December 28, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Woops, I was in the process of editing the above when it posted.
Here’s what it should the second paragraph should have said:
As for your demand that we give up our culture and “embrace change”, that’s an excellent argument against allowing untrammeled immigration from alien cultures. The easiest solution is to revert to quotas, where preference is given to heirs of Western civilization – such as to the Irish, Brits and so forth.
Thanks!
Buy Danish on December 28, 2008 at 1:01 PM
This is what I’m saying. “Islamo-Fascists” taking over? Come on. What about Capitalist-Fascism? Huh? That’s what we have become already. Industry and Government financially unified.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 1:01 PM
It’s amazing how the leftards cherry pick. They go nuts about the DP in the US though we have open trials, appellate review up the ying yang, and they are stone cold guilty. However, they would never miss an opportunity to give the DinnerJacket a tongue bath. You got to wonder why AI and all those human shields aren’t infiltrating Iran and protesting.
Blake on December 28, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Wow, dude. You make it sound as if the gifts we purchase freely with our own money to share with our loved ones or with charities are stolen at the point of a gun. Or sales clerks are beaten into submission and forced to hand over their merchandise, or something.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Go cry to Daddy. I have been here since the beginning of this blog. If anyones the Troll it’s you pall. I rarely am so forthright in my responses to ignoranimuses but in your case I responded in kind. Eff off! Again I say! #ff the 3ffin9 #off. rnodwahdever.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Oh hell no! I got double time because I worked. And I did most certainly not reimburse my employer for giving me our agreed upon compensation any more than you did on Labor Day, (a socialist holiday).
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Nice to see your outrage at the “stupid Christian holiday that is really a pagan celebration of Saturnalia that has lost all meaning beyond brutal hardcore consumption” doesn’t extend to getting paid double-time for working on said stupid holiday.
I’m self employed, I get nothing extra for working on Labor Day nor do I get holiday pay for staying home. You might also wish to link toward any umbrage I took toward Labor Day as some sort of “stupid socialist holiday that has lost all meaning” or some such.
Your hypocritical roots are showing, time for a new dye-job.
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 1:21 PM
From
“what were their crimes?” …give Iran a fair shake
To
“Christian Holiday is pagan ritual”
To
“what about Capitalist-Fascism?”
Ronsfi, I think you would have done well in Haight-Ashbury during the 60′s as a flower child looking for some purpose to your life. Cool. Keep looking, it’s a great trip.
Ernest on December 28, 2008 at 1:22 PM
The woman was convicted of murdering her step daughter, and the man hanged in another location was convicted of drug trafficking.
In those cases I hoist a beer in favor of Iranian justice.
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 1:23 PM
So ronsfi is in favor of public executions in America, and is defending Iran and its Christmas Eve executions, and is attacking Christianity.
Interesting combination. Draw your own conclusions. I’ve drawn mine.
MadisonConservative on December 28, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Yeah well I ran my own business for awhile and while I commend you, you are no hero. Nor a martyr. If it’s so difficult, being self employed, sell the business and get a job like I did. I love it. Instead of everyone being my boss I have only five bosses. Sweet. and when I go home…I am off work! And on goofy holidays…I go home…AND THEY STILL PAY ME! SWEET!
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 1:28 PM
It won’t make a difference. You should have seen some of the stuff other posters have said, time after time, and they’re still here.
MadisonConservative on December 28, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Hmmm. Which is it?
MadisonConservative on December 28, 2008 at 1:31 PM
I have no problem with the death penalty being applied as needed. It’s the Iranian system of justice I find questionable.
For one thing, it takes the testimony of 4 women combined to equal out the testimony of one man. Ignoring the testimony of women doesn’t engender confidence in any conviction Iranian courts deliver.
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on December 28, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Meh! Go jump in the lake. I don’t defend Iran. I abhor conformity. As an Atheist Christmas Eve is meaningless. While I do attack Christianity I don’t think I was doing so particularly in this thread. Don’t stalk me. I have made up my mind as well, concerning certain middle of the road weak willed mumbling pseudo intellectuals. You make the call.
And yes If we are going to kill a person, WE the people. then I do feel it should be done publicly. But see I am willing to state an opinion outright. What’s wrong with you?
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Yeah well I ran my own business for awhile and while I commend you, you are no hero. Nor a martyr. If it’s so difficult, being self employed, sell the business and get a job like I did. I love it. Instead of everyone being my boss I have only five bosses. Sweet. and when I go home…I am off work! And on goofy holidays…I go home…AND THEY STILL PAY ME! SWEET!
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Dude, seriously, are you having a mental breakdown or something? Where did I say that being self-employed grants me hero or martyr status? Now if I had complained about Labor Day in the same manner you complain about Christmas, you might have a point, alas I did not and you are left foundering.
I simply pointed out that for having such obvious outrage at the Christmas holiday, you don’t seem to mind enjoying the benefits of said holiday. That’s hypocrisy in action: you hate the idea of Christmas for all its consumerist trappings, yet you have no problem taking the mandated holiday pay.
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 1:43 PM
ronsfi, you have rambled in about ten different directions on this thread, where are you?
conservnut on December 28, 2008 at 1:45 PM
You are a liar. You state. “simply pointed out that for having such obvious outrage at the Christmas holiday” but what you really meant was to call me a hypocrite. Which you go on to state in the next sentence. You weren’t simply pointing out anything. You were claiming (quite stupidly) that I should somehow exempt myself from my standard agreed on contract in order to satisfy you somehow.
Well I don’t agree with Labor Day but it is an approved paid holiday that is part of my compensation package. Your silly argument is pathetic. You worship the false idol Saint Nicholas. Hypocrite!
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Home
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 1:55 PM
You didn’t say it. You projected it.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Actually I take that back. You did say it.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Heh Heh
Ronsfi, you’re fun. You remind me of myself when I was a much younger person. Filled with passion. I too am agnostic (not believing in Atheism’s rational existence). As a young man I espoused my belief whereever and whenever I could until I realized that christianity did more good for mankind than harm. (as opposed to Islam for which I believe the opposite.)
I enjoy your posts for they create argument which is a good thing. Keep up the good work for on some things you are quite right in my oppinion.
Ernest on December 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM
You were claiming (quite stupidly) that I should somehow exempt myself from my standard agreed on contract in order to satisfy you somehow.
Geez….anger problems today? LOL, you get pissed easily. I didn’t claim anything, it just seems odd that you make such a strident point about the falsity of Christmas and then gleefully accept the benefits of the holiday.
It’s akin to people who refer to the cops as “pigs” and then call 911 the moment they hear a strange noise outside the house.
Hypocrisy.
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM
So, wait. You defend Iran and it’s Christmas Eve executions, you want to see public executions in America, you attack Christianity, and you’re a Communist.
…is this guy messing with us?
MadisonConservative on December 28, 2008 at 2:03 PM
You worship the false idol Saint Nicholas. Hypocrite!
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Link please, or are you making assumptions and basing your argument on what I’m supposed to be “projecting?” Hypocrite? Are you sure you know what the word means?
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 2:05 PM
…is this guy messing with us?
MadisonConservative on December 28, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Perhaps, though I lean toward irrationality; post holiday blues or something.
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM
MadisonConservative on December 28, 2008 at 2:03 PM
To paraphrase somebody, “A Mind is a Terrible Thing.”
Maybe he either needs medication or needs to get off of some.
kingsjester on December 28, 2008 at 2:08 PM
At least they weren’t “water boarded” or made to put panties on their heads while being lead around on all fours by a dog leash. That would be a “human rights violation”.
DeathB4Tyranny on December 28, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Ohh! You’re really digging into my psyche!
What a dick! You call me a hypocrite and then deny it. What a dork. It’s clearly visible if you scroll up. You weren’t “Just Sayin’” You were attacking me personally. Now you want to play Mr. Cool. What ever. You bore me. Goodbye.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:09 PM
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:11 PM
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Hee hee hee.
Tough day at the ol’ computer, huh?
Cheers and Merry Christmas, bud, cheers and Merry Christmas.
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 2:12 PM
With a track record like this, I will not be giving Iran the benefit of the doubt any time soon.
Teenage Iranian Girl Hanged For Having Sex
Disturb the Universe on December 28, 2008 at 2:12 PM
You’ve licked the feet of the “Persian culture” plenty, compared their public executions of homosexuals and political dissidents to our private executions of cop killers, and said we should execute publicly like them. Yes, you have defended Iran.
I stalk you by responding to you in one post? Paranoid much?
So you abhor conformity. Whoopty doo. Taking the unpopular side in every argument just makes you a douchebag, not principled.
And you did attack Christianity like every typical militant atheist does. Saying you don’t think you did is a lie. You called their holidays stupid and you called them hypocrites in your second post. This is coming from an agnostic, by the way.
Please demonstrate where I have been weak willed. You being obnoxious about something you believe in does not make you passionate. It makes you an obnoxious jerk. Don’t impugn my intellect or will just because I don’t jump on the “all money is debt, we need public executions, LEAVE IRAN ALOOOOOOOONE!” train. I prefer trains that don’t end at the lunatic asylum.
Nothing’s wrong with me, except that I’m willing to state my opinion that you are nuttier than a Planters packing center, and that your attitude about Christianity makes you roughly equivalent to a Christian fundamentalist idiot who says all non-believers will roast in hell for not belonging to their specific church. Seen SaintOlaf? You’re his twisted doppelganger.
MadisonConservative on December 28, 2008 at 2:13 PM
How am I a communist?
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Actually you’re way closer to SaintLoaf than me. I can’t tell you the satisfaction I get from you wallowing in hatred and bitterness toward me after having your ass handed to you on multiple occasions. The personal nature of your animosity is fulfilling for me in ways you will never know. That you nurture such bitterness and lurk like a vulture awaiting any chance that might cause me the kind of hurt that you hold inside is complementary beyond compare. Such pwnage is rare and I thank you for a blog gift beyond compare.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Yes, you’ve really been pwning today:
Pwned. So pwned.
MadisonConservative on December 28, 2008 at 2:24 PM
My god I love you!
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Sorry I was away from the computer for a bit.
Dude! I was trying to give you a chance to tell us where you are in this discussion. You have rambled back and forth lashing out at beliefs, positions and traditions without any sense or organization to it.
And when I try to give you an opportunity to restate your case you have a smarta$$ remark.
Very trollish behavior.
conservnut on December 28, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Yeah meby. It was a pretty dead thread and now it’s pretty humpin’
1234 I declare a flame war!
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Merry Christmas, dude. As it is the overwhelmingly celebrated holiday in this great nation, and you can’t do a thing to change it with your pseudo-independent outrage, I say it again, Merry Christmas.
MadisonConservative on December 28, 2008 at 2:34 PM
Do you actually know any Christians?
Mojave Mark on December 28, 2008 at 2:41 PM
My god I love you!
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Strange thing for an atheist to say.
Bishop on December 28, 2008 at 2:44 PM
I LOVE Christmas. It’s like living through the Lord of the Rings every year. It’s a great fantasy. One must suspend disbelief but once accomplished, how swell. How utterly, superbly, sublime.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:48 PM
Would that I could make it that simple for you. Unfortunately, I was raised a Christian in a large Christian family and my best friend is a Four Square Fundie. He’s a good man who overlooks my disbelief and sets an example in hopes that I may be inspired and someday come to God. He treats me with respect and I treat him likewise and revere his essential goodness and he recognizes mine although whence it comes puzzles him.
ronsfi on December 28, 2008 at 2:54 PM
We would have no problems with Islam if we would only convert and become Muslims. Then we could legally do away with the Hollywood elites plus the gay & women’s rights activists and a host of other left leaning kooks. Hmmmm, could this be all bad? I can hear the guys at the pub now (oops, we wouldn’t be able to drink or do drugs under Islam, but we could meet at the coffee shop to discuss life’s issues), “Yah, in the old days, the ol’ lady gave me a ration of BS because I wouldn’t take out the trash, but, now all I got to do is ‘paste her one in the chops’ and it straightens her right out.” Hmmmmmmm, it sounds like this is what the people that would be hurt the most by the Islamists want….!
DL13 on December 28, 2008 at 3:08 PM
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