to american hikers
you but i'm sure you've heard this story to american hikers had been imprisoned
by the iranians for more than two years
on
which is not terribly surprising very dubious aspen on charges and highly
oppressive conditions
uh... their names joshua fit alum and shane bauer
they were released last week they spoke on sunday in manhattan at a press
conference
you read these media accounts
um...
however on is evil
how we are good power this is an example of an oppressive regime
but what most media counts have omitted as glenn greenwald of points out
is
the description
by for tel
of the horrible conditions of prison that the
they were helping
he explained that a very it was done to them quote
solitary confinement was the worst experience of all our lives
feedback to bradley many
kept in solitary confinement for a year
think back to how i was a padilla
solitary confinement with the here months and black glasses over his face
we couldn't see anything
he noted that they were imprisoned two of us due solely to what he called the
thirty two years of mutual hostility between american iran and he said the
irony is that we oppose u_s_ policies toward iran which uh... perpetuate this
house uh... hostility
after complaining that the two court sessions they attended were total shams
military commissions
get mowed trials
we're gonna find these people guilty anyway
bezerra ring a bell
and that quote we've been holding held in almost total isolation stripped of
our rights and freedom she explained and then he went on to say this
in prison every time we complained about our conditions
the guardsmen immediately remind us
of comparable conditions at guantanamo bay
you remind us of c_i_a_ prisons in other parts of the world
and the conditions that iranians another's experience in prisons in the
u_s_
we do not believe that such human rights violations on the part of our government
justify what has been done to it
not for a moment
we do believe that these actions on the part of the u_s_
however we do believe that these actions on the part of the u_s_ right next to
you for other governments including the government iraq of iran to acting prime
which of course is what amber reac spurt on torturer which is what the military
personnel say
of which is what civil libertarians say in this country
it's been said over and over again
yet we cannot talk about this because there's too much time being spent as to
whether
of a half half term
mildly
newberry lead popular governor from new jersey
may enter into the race only to loot
and leave it the day after new hampshire
that is what is so after up about our media
so think about that the next time you are are forced to listen to as the
weather not chris christy is gonna decide
run for president
why is in our media paying attention to those words and the implications of that
in terms of civil liberties it's just simply not convenient
doesn't that the dinner