One Body counts as ONE BODY

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious


...in an e-mail response to someone from this (here) team...

So your friends find the humiliating experience of being told, like small children, what to wear and how to behave a big adventure. How pathetic! There must be hundreds perhaps thousands of disputes, complaints, divorces, and cases like these going on in Iranian courthouses every day. Thank God that 90% of what I said (continued from here) is less than 1% of what goes on in the judicial system. At what percentage point do you think the criminal behavior of the regime will start to bother you? If you find human lives in terms of statistical counts and averages, why do you care that 100,000 Iraqis are dead? That number is less than 0.4% of the Iraqi population and less than a third of the number of Iraqis killed by the Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war. That is absurd! And again, if all these thousands of deaths are nothing but statistics to you, why are you so much against revolutions? Let's say 50,000 people get killed, that will only be about 1% of the number of drug addicts in Iran! Please feel free to go to Iran and change the world your way but I wonder how meaningful that change would be when you are not even ready to recognize the extent of the disaster that has gripped our nation for the past 27 years, when you shrug off stoning, public hanging, and mass executions as 1% of things going on in the judicial system.