Which modern day martyr do you think Huffington Post [1]contributor and ‘philosopher’ Bernard Henri-Levy [2]is talking about here?
“Nothing will repair the days he has spent in prison. Nothing will erase the immense, unbelievable injustice he has been subjected to. Nothing will take away the hysteria of those ones who have never stopped pouring contempt upon him, hounding him through hatred and asking for his punishment as if we were living the darkest and most ferocious hours of the McCarthy era all over again. At least the nightmare is about to end. At least the end of the hell is looming. And this, for the time being, is what does matter.”
One of the brave protesters languishing in an Iranian jail, perhaps? Perhaps Kian Tajbakhsh, [3]the Iranian-American scholar who has been detained by the theocracy without access to an independent lawyer since July 9, 2009? No, can’t be him — the end of his hell isn’t looming. It’s just heating up.
Maybe Jian Tianyong, the Chinese human rights lawyer currently under intense scrutiny from the communist government? Nope — AFP reports that Obama declined to raise the issue publicly [4]with Hu Jintao on his recent visit, preferring to whisper sweet nothings about ‘rights’ in his ear in private, possibly tickling him under the chin as he did so. So Tianyong is still screwed, with no end to his hell in sight either.
I don’t know — is there some brave Russian dissident we haven’t heard about, losing his hair and teeth on a radioactive prison camp way out east? Maybe an Uzbek Muslim detained in Islam Karimov’s reopened gulag? [5]Possibly some bold Burmese fighter for justice, who has stood up to his vicious thug rulers?
Nope. I’ll give you a clue, although you’re probably way ahead of me here. Think ‘McCarthy’. Think: wicked America, evil, puritanical Americans. Bad, bad Americans!
Got it yet? [6]
But you knew already, didn’t you? Well, well, well. BHL — what a complete and utter dickhead!
Now excuse me, I must go and saw my own head off.
Hat tip: John Nolte
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