05-29-2009, 12:35 AM
Quote:Iran is holding an Iranian American woman, Roxana Saberi, on drummed up charges of spying. Where is the liberal outrage?Viewing this in relation to the subject of the thread...
Drummed up charges or not, meanwhile she has been released and returned home unmolested. Luckily for her, the Iranians ('civilized' or not) decided not to wring a confession out of her, nor information about secret plots against their country.
Regarding the absence of liberal outrage: maybe many liberals realized how it would look?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxana_Saberi
"American civil right activist Glenn Greenwald, while stating his belief that Saberi's conviction was improper, has pointed to the hypocrisy of American reporters who rallied to Saberi's defense but have been silent about the plight of journalists like Sami Al-Haj, an Al Jazeera cameraman who was held for six years in Guantanamo by the U.S. government. Al-Hajâs imprisonment received nearly no news coverage."