http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_is_what_theocracy_looks_like Okay, our Supreme Court is bad. But Iran's is worse. Six members of a state militia that routinely attacks reformist politicians and violently breaks up pro-democracy meetings had been convicted of murder by lower courts. But the Iranian Supremes overturned the lower courts' decisions. According to the Supreme [Court]... the killers, who are members of the Basiji Force, volunteer vigilantes favored by the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, considered their victims morally corrupt and, according to Islamic teachings and Iran’s Islamic penal code, their blood could therefore be shed. And what were these moral bankrupts... Copyright 2008 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:21:31 -0800 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:10:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I find McCain's hygiene practices more disgusting than his lame joke.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_is_what_theocracy_looks_like#c696139 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_is_what_theocracy_looks_like#c696139 News Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:50:49 -0800 as unspeakable as that is... it wasn't all too long ago that 16 year old black boys were hung for looking at white women in the 'wrong way' here in the u.s. of a. with or without improvised trials. we're not that far ahead.

]]> JudithBjini http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_is_what_theocracy_looks_like#c696355 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_is_what_theocracy_looks_like#c696355 News Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:10:36 -0800