6/4/2003: Iranian sews himself shut
 

http://cellar.org/2003/sewface.jpg

This is Abas Amini. He's a Kurdish political poet from Iran, where he was jailed for his views. Two years ago he fled to the UK, but recently the UK was refusing to grant him asylum. So a week ago he sewed up his eyes, mouth and ears in an attempt to get some publicity for his cause.

Two days later he was granted asylum, and the following day a nurse cut him open again.

I don't know whether his protest was what got him asylum. more info

He's did this for the "rights of asylum seekers"? Since when do asylum seekers have rights? Asulum seekers beg for help. If someone gives it to them, fine. If not then they must beg elsewhere. They have rights to nothing. The right to human dignity. Sure, he can beg in a dignified manner.

He missed a few. Might as well be thorough. Taste no evil, feel no evil, smell no evil.

supply more sewing kits and blunt needles
 

Give them all a sewing kit then all our problems will be tidied up. It's amazing how more and more Australians and citizens are finally coming to reality and have voiced that "enough is enough".

Your going to fit right in. Leah :3eye:


wow how skilled one must be to sew one's eyes shut. but if some one helped him do it then there must be more than one person that has his view point.

The first thing he did after the stitches were removed was CHAIN SMOKE.
As an ex smoker i'm more impressed by the length of nicotine self deprivation than the minor irritation caused by a few stitches.
Seriously, after the described whipping, wouldn't the scars lend weight to his argument rather than self mutilation akin to the afore-posted whirling dervish.
Yeah, we need those in the country, come one come all, send us your poor, your needy, your flagellators, your zealots, your darners.
First impressions...:eek:

I don't know about him being committed to his beliefs, but I really would think he needs commitment. ;)

Amazing the amount of leeway people are given when what they are doing is described as a "political statement" rather than just "plain crazy behavior." (I include flammable buddhist monks and that tax fast guy here).

Wondering ... UT, is there a :crazy: icon ... little guy making a circle with his index finger near his temple? Would probably get a lot of usage. There are situations were :eek: doesn't quite provide the right tone.

[quote]Originally posted by wolf

Amazing the amount of leeway people are given when what they are doing is described as a "political statement" rather than just "plain crazy behavior."

Much like the difference between an act of political terrorism and plain old murder:mad:

There isn't one. Am I missing your point?

Oooh .. and I forgot to make this obligatory wiseass comment in my previous post ... Wasn't this guy on one of the final season episodes of the X-Files?

[quote]Originally posted by wolf
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There isn't one. Am I missing your point?

Heck no, that is precisely my point !

Oooooh. Sarcasm. I get it! :) (your little angryface threw me off there ...)

Yeah. i see what you mean. Now i've re-read it it makes bugger all sense. Oh well, bear with me. I'll get up to Cellar speed eventually.
ps. can anybody tell me why, when I try to highlight for a "quote" it picks up the entire post.

gotta love Aussie Engrish

I usually just quote the whole thing and delete the extraneous stuff on the post reply page.

Testing your method Griff

He he, I just found this. The Aussie language gets biblical.

The Virgin Mary is a "pretty special sheila" who wraps her nipper in a bunny rug and tucks him up in a cattle feed trough, according to a new Australian version of the Bible.