Noam Chomsky Offers to Testify to Shane and Josh's Character and Good Record, Calls for Release

World renown linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky calls for the immediate release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, who Iranian border guards detained while on a recreational hiking trip in Iraqi Kurdistan. He offers to testify to their good character and record of advocating for social and environmental justice. Shane and Josh have been unjustly detained since July 31, 2009. So far they have been treated as political collateral. They were told their case was political after just over one month. It is time they receive compassion and are allowed to return to their families.

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• Shane Bauer
• Josh Fattal
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• Iran
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[Neidhardt84]

@DorianHouse One of the leading anarchist theoreticians, Peter Kropotkin, is a pioneer of what is called communist anarchism (or libertarian communism/socialism). Anarchosyndicalism is just a more updated form of communist anarchism (read Kropotkin, Anton Pannekoek, Rudolf Rocker). You shouldn't confuse communism with Lenin's concept of a ruling party or avantgarde. Marx would most certainly disagree with Lenin and be disgusted by what was done by stalinist dictators in his name.

[svaens]

Noam pleads to the Iranian Government for justice and due process for the 3 US hikers, in the same way he pleads the US Government for justice and due process for the thousands of people held by the US at Guantanamo without due process, and subjected to psychological trials.

Noam Chomsky is a good man. A hero figure to me, if any there were in todays world. But if these hikers are innocent, it probably hardly matters (to the Iranians). My guess is it is tit for tat.

[votingronpaul2008]

Iran should free all three spies immediately, on humanitarian grounds!

US politicians do not jail foreign nationals who are caught spying, they hire them.

[rhysnyc]

@ucanifuwant Iraqi Kurdistan is not the same as the whole country of Iraq – it's quite different, and a separate area. It's actually a growing tourist area, and a very beautiful one with amazing, peaceful people. I myself am traveling to IK in January to shoot a documentary. Of course, I'm staying out of the mountains... :) But seriously, IK is not a bad place. It was listed on Nat Geo's top 20 places to travel.

[rachelgolem]

I guess devoting their lives to trashing Israel didn't help them in prison!!!!

[whereismybailouttv]

60 likes and 1 dislike. Not bad.....

[whereismybailouttv]

if you haven't seen it yet, watch the clip w/Ray McGovern being beaten and dragged out of GWU as Hillary speaks about "freedom of expression and democracy". Then answer this. If you were the Iranian govt., would YOU trust the States?

[Fatima74]

@Zobree - these people were involved in palestine justice, they had nothing against iran!!

[Fatima74]

@Zobree - ask bradley manning what?

[mojo75]

does he know them, was he their teacher? Stick to transformational grammer, you shill!

[eirearya]

Thanks, Mr. Chomsky for speaking up on behalf of Bauer and Fattal. I hope they are released soon.