{"id":1042,"date":"2010-10-20T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/1042\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T08:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:05:45","slug":"joint-declaration-by-canada-and-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/1042\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Declaration by Canada and France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in 2008 I wrote about Hossein Derakhshan’s arrest in Iran<\/a>. It’s been about six years since I met him in person. He sat in prison for about two years without charges and a few months ago was sentenced to another twenty years. I don’t need to go into how ridiculous that is, you can see that blog post and search the web for more info.<\/p>\n

What I should have been writing more about is Canada’s deplorable non-response to the arrest of a Canadian citizen. The Joint Declaration by Canada and France<\/a> announced today looks to be by far the largest acknowledgement and complaint from the Canadian government. Sadly, this is how it goes in my head, and I suspect, in reality:<\/p>\n

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France<\/dt>\n
A lot of people have been pushing us to say something about this tragedy, so we’re going to make a public statement asking for Hossein’s release.<\/dd>\n
I just realize Canada’s hardly said anything about this. Better talk to them.<\/dd>\n
To Canada:<\/em> What’s the deal? You’re not supporting your own citizen?<\/dd>\n
Canada<\/dt>\n
We have no power in the world and we’re wusses that would rather not offend Iran. Because, um…. terrorism! We’ll open ourselves more to attacks that way. <\/dd>\n
To themselves:<\/em> even if they don’t buy that, the’ll probably pretend that they did.<\/dd>\n
So anyway, don’t say anything ‘cause people will know we’re wusses.<\/dd>\n
France<\/dt>\n
Um, well we’re gonna make the statement anyway. Either us by ourselves or you could make the statement with us. We have this thing called principals.<\/dd>\n
Canada<\/dt>\n
F***. I guess we’ll make a joint statement.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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