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Neda and Caspian while on vacation in Turkey
Some moron writing for the Guardian tracked down Caspian Makan, the boyfriend of Neda Agha Soltan. Neda is the young woman who was murdered by a basiji's bullet on June 20th in Tehran while protesting the rigged Iranian election. The article is worth reading to hear Caspian's story. 

Caspian and Neda had fallen in love while on vacation in Turkey last April. They planned to get married-- until everything changed on June 20th. The Iranian authorities arrested Caspian and held him in the notorious Evin Prison. He was released on bail after pressure from various human rights groups, and then fled the country.

Sadly, the author writes with the skill of a lobotomized monkey. The phrase, "the family were allowed" is not proper English, and should never be published by a newspaper. Then, in the middle of the piece, the author spasms into an unrelated anti-American invective, calling US elections "soporific staged affairs." That doesn't even merit a response.

Worst of all, the author engages in the most repugnant form of journalistic myopia: "It is impossible to say what the election result really was...[although] thousands of Iranians felt they had been cheated."

Are you kidding me??? You aren't sure who won? And in an article about Neda? This person should have their right hand amputated.
 


Comments

Witness

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:08:04

"This person should not have their" is not proper English, and should never appear on a respectable blog.

 

Jon

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:10:41

Is this wolfish? I used "their" because of gender ambiguity, a common convention. I could have used "his or her" but that ruins the flow of the rant.

I could also assume that it's a guy, but then I'd be sexist.

 



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