Posted on 07/30/2010 10:11:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
If Sarah Shourd, 31, could have, she would have set sail on the recent flotilla to Gaza. Same for her boyfriend Shane Bauer, 28 and their friend Josh Fattal, 28. And they would probably be out there right now, demonstrating against Israel’s reaction, the blockade in general, and well, Israel in general.
That’s the kind of thing they believe in. Those are the sorts of activities they do. “These are like three Rachel Corries,” says their friend Shon Meckfessel, comparing them to the activist killed in Gaza who has become something of a symbol of the pro-Palestinian movement, “…we have spent out whole adult lives contesting injustices in the Middle East.”
Except for now, none of those three young Americans is doing much of anything. On Saturday, it will be a year since they were taken into captivity in Iran, where they remain, in Evin prison, with almost no contact with the outside world.
Meckfessel, who was traveling with them when they were taken captive, is frustrated that so little is being done to get them released. “It just does not feel like a priority for the U.S. administration,” he complains. Is it because they are Americans who were critical of U.S. and Israeli actions? “I definitely wonder about that,” he says.
Swiss diplomats, who represent the U.S. in Tehran have managed only three visits with the captives. An Iranian lawyer has had no access. And Shourd, in solitary confinement, is said to be increasingly depressed.
The three are accused of being spies who entered the country to gather information and incite resistance to the regime - but no official charges have been made, and there is no trial date scheduled. All of which leaves the “American hikers” as they are called, in total limbo.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Since the Iranians are helping Hamas, these three “Rachel Corrie wannabes” should be enjoying their hospitality. A few more months of it and they will be raving Zionists.
I love a happy ending.
LOL @ Post #2!
Are these pancakes from the “Rachel Corrie House of Pancakes” and ‘tractor avoidance training school’?
Are they feeling a little flat?
Cool. They can keep them then
Of all the places in the world to go hiking they chose the muslim world. If they really want their freedom they should all convert to Islam. That’ll teach them to not be so stupid. I hope American tax dollars are not being used to help get their release. If they really wanted to make a (brave)statement the depressed one should go on a hunger strike. Yeah, right.
I don’t feel nearly as sorry for them now as I might have.
Fire up the Cats!!!
The Three Rachel Corries and the Meckfessel. Must be something in the water. Berkeley??
Reality meets Idealism.
Where are the Commie Professors?
Don’t they want to see their protegee’s free?
Well maybe a year ago; a year of Iranian jail hospitality might have caused one or more of them to reevaluate some of their views.
The sympathy I felt for them just poured out of me. Kind of like pancake syrup off a trio of pancakes.
Their friend wonders if they are not being helped because they oppose Israel?
Talk about cognitive dissonance.
Ah, well then, thanks for clearing that up. Ahmanutjob can keep them!
They’re from Bolder, box of rocks mentality.
Except the actual Rachel Corrie actually went to the place she wanted to create havoc for. It’s kind of hard to create havoc for Israel by means of gate crashing in Iran. They shouldn’t blame Iran, even if they want to collaborate in Iran’s nefarious mission, for being darn suspicious. That’s the way Iran is.
well if that’s the case, they can just stay put.
I thought these three were socializing together and two of them are planning their wedding.
Something fishy about this story. After all, the parents just visited them a couple of months ago.
Traitors, i hope they rot in prison. The US shouldnt lift a finger for them.
The idea, obviously, is to try to get Iran to think of them as sympathizers. Instead they got stuck in a no man’s land.
Yup
They’re pro-terrorist activists like Rachel Corrie?
Well, it looks what I call “a problem that solves itself.”
Their friends are in a bind, so they beg for lenience from Iran as they also hate Jews. How'd the professor escape incarceration? It's a pity he's not in there with them.
I read a profile on these three in an airline magazine a few months back while traveling on business. I have ZERO sympathy for them. All three are dyed-in-the-wool Berkley liberals who had been living in Damascus and jet-setting throughout the Middle East so that they could “engage the world” and hob-knob with other like-minded “intellectuals. Not surprisingly, their parents (or parent) are ex-hippies and had encouraged their risky lifestyle.
Let them rot in Iran.
Get a Cat and finish the job.
LLS
Where are the 3 dozers when you need them?
He was their ‘Judas goat’ who set them up for the trap, and then was begged off “sick”, right before they went on their hike.
Man, now I really want some pancakes!
That's because you're not in America, dumbass. You're in Iran.
I love all these douchbag trustafarians who jet around the world with their "I hate America too!" attitude.
Then, as soon as one of the dictatorship governments they love so much more than the capitalist American pig government locks them up, they get all shocked and sad that America doesn't rush to their aid.
Seriously, life must really really really suck for these dopes right now. That's too bad.
You laugh too hard, you cry.
They’re as I suspected all along: not spies, nitwits.
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These 3 are not hikers and the Lamestream media knows it. Article should be called,
“3 American Jihadists nabbed by Mullahs”
check out their background here:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/5868/let-em-rot-hiking-americans-detained-in-iran-are-pro-syrian-anti-israel-left-wing-journalist-activists/
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