Terry Jones on Humiliation
Terry Jones, he of Monty Python fame, writes about humiliation in the Guardian. Specifically, he targets the humiliation of UK sailors at the hands of their Iranian captors and shares the outrage being expressed in the British press. Jones compares how the west has treated Arab prisoners in recent Middle East conflict with the treatment being experienced by the sailors. He is outraged -- mad -- at what's being done. Faye Tuney is forced to wear a black headscarf and her picture is allowed to posted around the world; the sailors forced to talk on Iranian TV; they're allowed to write letters home!
Jones believes that the UK sailors should be treated the way a civilized nation treats prisoners of war -- the way the US (with British help) has been treating prisoners. He suggests that perhaps the prisoners should have bags over their heads, with their mouths duct-taped; that they should be given "the privacy of solitary confinement;" that they should be held for years with no charges; that they should be allowed to partake in physical exercise, such as taking up stress positions which they have to maintain for hours on end; that they should forced into “compromising sexual positions, or having electric shocks to their genitals” -- with pictures of such activity circulated around the world.
Since Iran is not treating the UK prisoners with such civility, the Iranian people should be made to suffer -- sanctions, or better yet, a full scale invasion by GW’s forces is what is called for. They’re asking for it.
Gotta love the western media’s hypocrisy.
[You can see the videos of the UK Sailors on Iranian TV here.]
Jones believes that the UK sailors should be treated the way a civilized nation treats prisoners of war -- the way the US (with British help) has been treating prisoners. He suggests that perhaps the prisoners should have bags over their heads, with their mouths duct-taped; that they should be given "the privacy of solitary confinement;" that they should be held for years with no charges; that they should be allowed to partake in physical exercise, such as taking up stress positions which they have to maintain for hours on end; that they should forced into “compromising sexual positions, or having electric shocks to their genitals” -- with pictures of such activity circulated around the world.
Since Iran is not treating the UK prisoners with such civility, the Iranian people should be made to suffer -- sanctions, or better yet, a full scale invasion by GW’s forces is what is called for. They’re asking for it.
Gotta love the western media’s hypocrisy.
[You can see the videos of the UK Sailors on Iranian TV here.]
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