Amid all the gushing about the two American citizens released by Iran to almost minute-by-media coverage of their journey home, forgive me if I have to demur from the tsunami of fawning. One, acting as spokesman, regaled us Americans, and the world, with a televised statement to the effect that he hopes all other “political prisoners” will be released, “in America,” and the world.
“Two years in prison is too long,” Bauer told reporters, “and we sincerely hope for the freedom of other political prisoners and other unjustly imprisoned people in America and Iran.”Story here.
In “America”? “Political prisoners?” Just who would that be? What evidence do these self-proclaimed “political prisoners” have that there are any “political prisoners” in “America”? Just what kind of Americana are these who would exploit their 15-minutes of undeserved fame by telling the world that there are “political prisoners” in “America” whom they hope will be set free, too? Who are these three who have not repudiated that defamation of America and Americans?
Excuse me if I am insulted by the remark that America holds “political prisoners” made by a pretentious self-declared “political prisoner” whose defense to Iran’s charges was not that he was a “political” actor but an innocent hiker so stupid that he and companions of Jewish heritage or association would go hiking near the Iranian border, and “accidentally” cross the border into jew-hating Iran.
While I, like most Americans, put Iran’s charges of “espionage” by these three whimpering 20-something still-adolescents right up there with Stalin’s “show trial” allegations of “espionage” for the U.S. by his dedicated communist cohorts before “Uncle Joe” rendered them dead, what gave Iran’s reaction to the claims of espionage some slight plausibility was the utter implausibility that these three highly-educated, affluent, Americans, of Hebrew heritage or association, would be so stupid as to innocently “hike” near the border of the Jew-hating, America-hating, terrorist-sponsoring Islamic Republic of Iran.
Frankly, it is hard to believe that anyone could be so brain-challenged as to innocently “hike” across the border into the land of Iran, especially an educated, affluent American of Jewish faith or ethnicity. Why would anybody be so stupid as to do that? It shakes one’s faith in the innocence of these three charming, childlike idiots, who have given such trouble to their parents, relatives — who have paid some $500,000 for the release of each of them, ransoms called “bail”; and so much trouble to their country, which has expended so much time, taxpayer-treasure, and international political groveling, attempting to gain their release.
But, having seen today the exploitation of the world stage they have undeservedly obtained as international celebrities and media darlings, and heard one state on behalf of all of them the hope that other “political prisoners” would also be freed, including those “in America,” my faith in their innocence is restored: If they are so utterly stupid and adolescently narcissistic as to stand on a world stage and defame America as a land, like Iran, holding “political prisoners, then they are capable of stupidly of such magnitude as to innocently rather than guiltily cross the border into the jihad-loving-Jew-hating Islamic Republic of Iran.
In short, all three have been released by the efforts of their country because they are Americans. However, they now use their unearned celebrity and the media stage that goes with it to defame America as a land of “political prisoners.” Unless and until all three retract the “political” allegation that America holds “political prisoners,” they should be criticized and called to account, not celebrated and fawned over by the media, and the American nation and people they have defamed.
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