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New Yorkers to General Assembly, Ahmadinejad: 'Oh, no'
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How is disrespect going to help ?
Can someone explain how is disrespect going to help ? I think it's simply rude, uneducated and impolite, as well as childish "I disagree so I don't listen to you" -
this meeting exists in order to discuss issues, to talk and listen to one another in order to progress -
He is head of state and deserves to be treated as such. Our disagreeing doesn't entitle us to insult him and his nation.
so much for those endless talk of "tolerance" and "understanding"
It is a Shame...
While I strongly disagree with Ahmadinejad's policies and think the election is rigged, it is asinine for anyone to reject service to any world leader. It is in poor taste, simple as that. Netanyahu was also out of line for his "have you no shame" speech over Ahamadinejad speaking to the assembly, when his country has no room to talk for their atrocities. The UN is for all countries to speak, do you see Palestine there? What Karen Hughes's organization did as an online effort, is about as tasteless as the Tea party and healthcare protestors. It is sinking to his level, and in the end Ahmadinejad will only thrive on this discourtesy.
Re: "Liberals"
I wrote the comment, "On being civilized." Regarding the comment, "Liberals": 1) The commenters who said Ahmadinejad is being treated unfairly, with which I disagreed, may not be "Liberal." Some Rightists defend Ahmadinejad. The Fascist right does - Stormfront, Italian Fascists, David Duke, etc. Some Leftists oppose him. (Such as me, an old SDS leader.) The pope, no Leftist, likes Islamist Iran. 2) Europeans have a right to opinions about how Ahmadinejad gets treated when in New York to address the UN. 3) If the campaign against Ahmadinejad were wrong – which it is not! – talking about European wrongs would not make it right. 4) I’m against "minding your own business," which "USDefender" advocates. I oppose Ahmadinejad because of what he’s done to IRANIANS and I support what NEW YORKERS are doing to him. I’m not Iranian or a New Yorker. --- Jared Israel - Emperor's Clothes tenc.net
Private Businesses
These hotels and banquets are owned by private businesses. Our government does not decide who can stay where. If these hotels do not want these Iranians there, it is their choice. Not yours, not the governments, theirs.
If he wants to stay in New York, I say let him sleep on a cot in the embassy.
Liberals
You Europeans make me laugh at your ultraliberal comments saying shame on the US public for speaking out against the Iranian puppet president visiting our country. It's OUR country and OUR laws guarantee the right to speak out against anyone we want. The law also extends the right to refuse service to ANYONE. If you don't like it, too bad. I'm not going to bring up the past concerning some of you Europeans, especially Germans and Brits, and how you treated YOUR fellow man in past centuries. None of us are innocent, and we will all be judged. So don't you judge my country. Mind your own business and concern yourselves with your own people.
On being civilized
Yeah, the Islamic regime incarcerates and tortures thousands of Iranians, killing hundreds or more, for daring to march in protest, supports marriage of girls at nine, persecutes the Bahai on the scale of Germany's treatment of Jews in 1933-34, and bankrolls and leads Hezbollah, Hamas and Bosnian Islamists, and says Jews run the world, while denying the Holocaust, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, some people in New York dare to organize to deny him banquet facilities. How uncivilized of those New Yorkers!
-- Jared Israel, Emperor's Clothes tenc.net
thats not fair...
i am not an ahmedinejads fan but i think that isnt a civilized behaviour....thats a shame of americans
a democracy?
USA is called the world's greatest democracy...it's a joke!!! They are not able to host leaders and can not accept people who don't think like them! I'm not a fan of Iranian President Amedenejad, but this "online campaign' sounds like a witch-hunt to me.