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TheHeretic -> RE: Save the Life of Kiana Firouz (5/14/2010 9:20:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda
Why do you spend so much time and energy constantly creating these fantasy scenarios where you're completely convinced that people with whom you disagree are doing dishonorable and hypocritical things
Because that's why I left the left, Panda. These are the values I was raised on, and the values I once believed I shared with them. They're the kind of values I have joined them on the streets and at the ballot box in support of. I know all too well the kind of noise that can be generated when they are moved. It isn't hopeless. There are shining lights, sometimes many, but never that whole horizon glow, however dim, that says, "we know, and we care."
I don't expect marches in the street, or people out gathering signatures, Panda. It's not like the human rights condition is comparable to aparteid or anything. Just ... for more people to care. Maybe for women's rights awareness to be a ribbon thing with the screen actors guild. Maybe a fundraiser that gets good coverage in the gossip pages. Maybe for people finding this in their local indie paper, rather than emailing it to them.
I sent my emails to my own elected reps. The State Dept. should help her find asylum somewhere if the UK won''t grant it. A prompt form reply regarding the difficulties of immigration reform has already come back. DC perhaps, is qualified to send a note to the ambassador. I'm just not that diplomatic, sometimes.
Try not to take it personally, Panda. I'm cussing at old friends and relatives here.
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