The Freedom Granted to Hikers.....

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   ahorsebackposted 12 years ago

   Ok, So I'm an old fart , but I am sick of hearing about the two hikers being negotiated for , who "found" themselves prisoners for to years in Iran!  I should consider this an ahha! moment ! I know ! So I have learned this : If you go hiking in a country that hates the whole western world YOU  deserve everything they can throw at you. As far as I'm concerned our media  and government shouldn't have spent a dime to get these two morons back. Just saying....

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   thisisoliposted 12 years ago

   A bit extreme, but I have to admit that many people are naive as to how dangerous some places can be.

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      ahorsebackposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I wonder if Naive is the word.  Perhaps ignorance is more likely the discription,  dont get me wrong I'm all for human rights , but dont temp the devil and laugh in the face of the dragons and then expect the media to make out that you are an innocent!

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         thisisoliposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         I think naive is more accurate than ignorance because it is easy to expect teh world to be a fairytale safe place when you are travelling. 
         
         The first mugging is usually the worst when you are on the road, but it definitely teaches you a lot.

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   jami l. pereiraposted 12 years ago

   What was that old expression? ...ummm let me see... STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES? LOL Just sayin' Lol. I think your right , if you put yourself in a position or a place ..lets say like an un free arrested undeveloped emotionally and physically  country , umm... youre an idiot and you put yourself there so deal with it! .. i dont think they were the brightest crayons in the box ...sometimes when one of my kids does something wacky ... i tell people ummm... yea and point ~~~~~~~~~~~~>Thats my "SMART" ONE of course lovingly lauguhing at the same time , but they know what i meant ..lol I wonder which one of them WAS the smart one in that case , i wonder if they'll go back and do it again ? lol can you imagine being in that dirty nasty horrid part of a country and being called a "spy? OMG! who would even want to know what those people do? i mean come on ! really? did you see awhile back how they supposedly killed Osama Bin laden? they showed the house they were in and it was called a "palace"? DIRTY ,NASTY,FILTHY ,DISGUSTING just to name a few words that come to mind!! Crap! people over there (some)dont have a clue . sad but true and some people are just too dumb to even see it!!

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      ahorsebackposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Jami , I have long ago decided that people in the middle east  dont even want peace, prosperity , and the freedom of choices.  They are tribal , sectarian , sedicious. Once an old man told me along time ago that some civilizations of culture have to wake up in the morning and slam there fingers in a door just to make themselves think in  evil ways. Iran , afghanistan , these people are all like that. ....:-}

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   recommend1posted 12 years ago

   Post grads from the uni that feeds people into the CIA, accidentally strolling a border in a war zone - pleeeeeeease !

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      ahorsebackposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Sooo ,they are spies? No  Even stupid spies don't wander around like morons.

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         recommend1posted 12 years agoin reply to this

         My experience is that yes they do - they call it undercover.

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   psycheskinnerposted 12 years ago

   Well, I still think a country is obliged to rescue dumb young citizens who weren't actually doing anything malicious.

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      ahorsebackposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      And for what , to come home and bash thier own countries freedoms ?.....I say leave them. Dont forget , you and I paid for Iran to release these dopes.

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         psycheskinnerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         It is not "for" anything.  It is because citizenship is a meaningful thing and you don't lose it due to common foibles like being an idiot.

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   jami l. pereiraposted 12 years ago

   I think when the morons got back to America , the should have bee n imprisoned , for treason against American tax payers , or they should have been left there , Just because you find away to express your freedom by visiting other countries DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU ARE WELCOME THERE!! they should have been lefdt there to rot , just one more piece of political means to spend tax payers money ! , its a damn shame. and totally sickening... if they had enough money to travel there , they shouldve had enough money to get back , on their own , and if not , they shouldve stayed there !

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