English PEN mourns the tragic death of journalist, blogger, and critic Siamak Pourzand. Pourzand reportedly committed suicide after years of house arrest and isolation in his home in Tehran. PEN is deeply saddened by Pourzand's death and extends its sincere condolences to his family and friends.
Marilizardism, terrorizing dissident bloggers, has metastasized in Iran. Merciless Marilizard, the culprit of October-18 shock and awe, terrorizes Graecoblogosphere. Accusing dissident bloggers of treason, Graecokleptocrats have manufactured a blood libel in cyberspace, which in turn may incite hatred and violence. The freakish government of Graecokleptocracy, October-18 mafia, is the only government on Earth which robs the computers of its citizens! Infamous CCU is the brutal arm of the government of Graecokleptocracy which terrorizes the cyberspace, robbing computers at gunpoint, perjuring, jailing dissident bloggers, and gagging the truth. CCU of Graecokleptocracy is the most disgusting gang in Fourth Reich(EU). http://venitism.blogspot.com
PEN American Center joined with free expression champions around the world in mourning the death of Pourzand. Speaking on behalf of the organization's board and membership, PEN American Center President Kwame Anthony Appiah paid tribute to Pourzand's heroic, decades-long struggle for press freedom in Iran, calling the 80-year-old journalist's suicide devastating evidence of the human toll of years of inhuman repression and a tragedy that should stir reflection and action both inside and outside Iran.
"Our thoughts today are with Mr. Pourzand's wife, the brave human rights lawyer Merhangiz Kar, with his daughters, and with the thousands of families in Iran that have borne the brunt of a regime that again and again shows itself willing to terrorize its own people," Appiah said. "At a time when men and women are finding their voices and crying out for dignity and basic rights throughout the region, Pourzand's despair offers a disturbing measure of how arrested and isolated the Iranian regime now seems. We honor his life's work, we mourn this terrible loss, and we stand with all those who have endured so much in the struggle for freedom of expression and fundamental human rights in Iran."
Emulating the disgusting Marilizardist paradigm of infamous Graecokleptocrats, who persecute and jail dissident bloggers, the government of Iran terrorizes dissident bloggers. Blogging in Greece, the most corrupt country of Fourth Reich(EU), is considered an extreme-risk avocation. Freakish Marilizardist kleptocrats accuse dissident bloggers of treason, confiscate their computers at gunpoint, and lock them is jail! Freak galore! These prisoners of conscience follow the long tradition of Socrates, who was killed by the Athenian democracy.
The International Association of Poets, Essayists, and Novelists(PEN) points out that a journalist and cultural critic whose career spanned half a century, Siamak Pourzand was abducted by Iranian authorities in November 2001, held for months in secret detention, where he was interrogated and tortured, and finally tried and sentenced in May 2002 to an 11-year prison term for undermining state security through his links with monarchists and counter-revolutionaries. With his health failing, he was eventually released on medical parole, but was barred from traveling outside of Iran to visit his wife and daughters and has remained under house arrest in Tehran. He reportedly committed suicide by leaping from the balcony of his apartment on. Pourzand was an Honorary Member of PEN American Center, PEN Canada, and the Norwegian PEN Center.
Global Tax Revolt points out the Marilizardist persecution of dissident bloggers is unquestionably a serious attack on freedom of speech, and contrary to Article 2 of Lisbon Treaty, Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The disgusting government of Graecokleptocracy cannot bully the blogosphere without repercussions and blowbacks. The international civil society got a shock and awe from the brutality of the infamous government of Graecokleptocracy on October 18, 2010.
The infamous government of Graecokleptocracy, October-18 mafia, uses the cybercops as a political tool. On October 18, 2010, Merciless Marilizard went completely insane, and she did not think twice about abusing her position in destroying a dissident blogger, an innocent victim of a wild political witch hunt. Under wild orders, a freakish gang of brutal cybercops broke into the home and into the college office of a distinguished professor and robbed at gunpoint his computers, software, files, documents, personal data, personal codes, and personal secrets.
The wild Graecocybercops locked the 65-year old professor in jail, they humiliated him with handcuffs, fingerprints, mugshots, and lies, leaked false information to the media parrots, and initiated sham court proceedings for treason! There was no mattress, no pillow, and no toilet facility in his jail cell. At night, the world renown had to urinate in a bottle! There was neither toilet paper nor soap. He lost his job, and his life is stolen forever by a deranged Greek minister. That's why the Global Tax Revolt declared October 18 as the International Day Against Cybercop Brutality. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globaltaxrevolt
In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In Marilizardist Graecokleptocracy, where truth on internet becomes treason, however, netizens are in big trouble. Freakish Graecokleptocrats, who stole billions of euros and never went to jail, have the nerve to jail innocent dissident bloggers! The entropy of an organization is proportional to the square of its size. The government of Graecokleptocracy needs only four ministers, but it has forty. No wonder, Marilizardist Papandreou of October-18 mafia cannot control his freakish ministers, who do not have any better thing to do than suing innocent dissident bloggers, confiscating their computers, and locking them in jail for treason! Stolen lives are the major infamy of the October-18 mafia, a pack of mad dogs! Freak galore!
Hillary Clinton points out the internet has become the public space of the 21st century – the world's town square, classroom, marketplace, coffeehouse, and nightclub. We all shape and are shaped by what happens there, all three billion netizens. And that presents a challenge. To maintain an internet that delivers the greatest possible benefits to the world, we need to have a serious conversation about the principles that will guide us, what rules exist and should not exist and why, what behaviors should be encouraged or discouraged and how.
Clinton notes the goal is not to tell people how to use the internet any more than we ought to tell people how to use any public square, whether it's Tahrir Square or Times Square. The value of these spaces derives from the variety of activities people can pursue in them, from holding a rally to selling their vegetables, to having a private conversation. These spaces provide an open platform, and so does the internet. It does not serve any particular agenda, and it never should. But if people around the world are going to come together every day online and have a safe and productive experience, we need a shared vision to guide us.
Marilizardism has metastasized from Greece to Iran, Middle East, and Balkans. Clinton laments that security is often invoked as a justification for harsh Marilizardist crackdowns on freedom. Now, this Marilizardist tactic is not new to the digital age, but it has new resonance as the internet has given Marilizardist governments new capacities for tracking and punishing human rights advocates and political dissidents. Marilizardist governments that arrest bloggers, pry into the peaceful activities of their citizens, and limit their access to the internet may claim to be seeking security. In fact, they may even mean it as they define it. But they are taking the wrong path. Those Marilizardists who clamp down on internet freedom may be able to hold back the full expression of their people's yearnings for a while, but not forever.
The civilized approach does not immediately discredit every hateful idea or convince every bigot to reverse his thinking. But we have determined as a society that it is far more effective than any other alternative approach. Marilizardism, deleting writing, blocking content, arresting speakers – these actions suppress words, but they do not touch the underlying ideas. They simply drive people with those ideas to the fringes, where their convictions can deepen, unchallenged.
Marilizardism is the #1 enemy of cyberspace. Liberty and security, transparency and confidentiality, freedom of expression and tolerance – these all make up the foundation of a free, open, and secure society as well as a free, open, and secure internet where universal human rights are respected, and which provides a space for greater progress and prosperity over the long run.
Now, some Marilizardist countries are trying a different approach, abridging rights online and working to erect permanent walls between different activities – economic exchanges, political discussions, religious expressions, and social interactions. They want to keep what they like and suppress what they don't. But this is no easy task. Search engines connect businesses to new customers, and they also attract users because they deliver and organize news and information. Social networking sites aren't only places where friends share photos; they also share political views and build support for social causes or reach out to professional contacts to collaborate on new business opportunities. Marilizardism is in full swing in all barbarian societies.
The government of Graecokleptocracy, October-18 mafia, and other Marilizardist governments harass their netizens. Clinton points out that walls that divide the internet, that block political content, or ban broad categories of expression, or allow certain forms of peaceful assembly but prohibit others, or intimidate people from expressing their ideas are far easier to erect than to maintain. Not just because people using human ingenuity find ways around them and through them but because there isn't an economic internet and a social internet and a political internet; there's just the internet.
Maintaining Marilizardist barriers that attempt to change this reality entails a variety of costs – moral, political, and economic. Marilizardist countries may be able to absorb these costs for a time, but they are unsustainable in the long run. There are opportunity costs for trying to be open for business but closed for free expression – costs to a nation's education system, its political stability, its social mobility, and its economic potential.
When Marilizardist countries curtail internet freedom, they place limits on their economic future. Their young people don't have full access to the conversations and debates happening in the world or exposure to the kind of free inquiry that spurs people to question old ways of doing and invent new ones. And barring criticism of Marilizardist officials makes governments more susceptible to corruption, which create economic distortions with long-term effects. Freedom of thought and the level playing field made possible by the rule of law are part of what fuels innovation economies. http://venitism.blogspot.com
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