Lee Bollinger of Columbia University did a great job of hitting the "petty dictator" on the head in his blistering introduction of Presdient Ahmadinejad of Iran. Today was a great example of the pure power of free speech unleashed upon tyrants. To overtly contest the lies and brutality of the Iranian regime is exactly what an institution of higher learning is for. Bring the debate Ahmadinejad, but we are not going to mindlessly nod in favor of your crap. I only wish the intellectual truth squad could evicerate Bush too.
The photo here is of two men being executed in Iran for no other reason than they were discovered to be gay. I am sure there are probably some of the Christofascists in this country that would applaud such barbarism, but most of us see this for the barbarism that it is. It is an example of the backward nature of the Iranian government.
Ahmadinejad and people like him, no matter their nationality, need to be confronted nonstop, with an unending avalanche of truth, until what they represent dies away of its own accord.
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