Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 26, 2009

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone

Freedom of speech is an American invention. Nowhere in the world is it upheld, honored, and cherished as much as it is (for now) here. It’s easy to take it for granted when you’ve had it all your life, as we have.

You can thank God every day that you’re not in Iran (this includes you, Sean Penn, Keith Olbermann, Janeane Garofalo, Rosie O’Donnell, Dixie Chicks, Sandra Bernhard, and Perez Hilton, because in America, it’s not illegal to be jerks). Thank God that we still have our American ideals and Constitutional rights and freedom of speech.

US journalist Roxana Saberi, arrested and imprisoned on trumped-up charges of espionage, turns 32 today in an Iranian prison. She has been denied seeing her defense attorney today and she is now on Day 5 of a hunger strike. The fact that she, an American citizen, has spent so much time in prison for bogus charges and there is nary a peep from our media is a travesty. Have you heard anything about this on the evening news? Me neither.

President Obama, what is being done about this? Or, are you too busy planning your next Air Force One joy ride? I read a tiny blurb last week, a statement from Hillary Clinton. It was of the blasé, noncomittal “hang in there, sweetheart” type of crap you expect from your hairdresser when venting about rising costs at the grocery store, not from the Secretary of State when a US journalist’s life is on the line in a foreign country.

Read the terrible details in Michelle Malkin’s post, Roxana Saberi blogburst.

Spread the word, bloggers, spread the word. The MSM is too preocupied with stories about the First Dog and what Michelle Obama is wearing today. Too busy bashing tea party protesters and finding new ways to marginalize Rush Limbaugh or Dick Cheney or Sarah Palin.

We can’t let Roxana be forgotten. Lord knows we can’t expect Hollywood’s liberal celebrities to be outraged about this infringement of basic human rights. They’re too busy with… with… uh… anything else that isn’t a real issue about freedom of speech or defending a fellow American. They’re too busy trying to get on Obama’s White House guest list.

Spread the word. Let freedom ring!

Hokubei.com: AAJA, UNITY Call for Release of Nikkei Journalist Detained in Iran
FOX News: U.S. Reporter Jailed in Iran in ‘Bad Condition’
John T. Simpson, Big Hollywood: A Republican Platform For The 21st Century and Why is Hollywood Silent on Roxana Saberi?
The New Ledger: Media Held Hostage: Will Obama Respond?
Free Roxana Saberi: Free Roxana – Petition: Member of defense team denied access, even though permission had been previously granted
NewsBusters: Chavez’s Penn, Or How Santa Monica High Should Hang Its Penn in Shame
Tel-Chai Nation: Free Roxana Saberi!
Vets On The Watch: What A Tangled Web They Weave

Categories: Freedom of Speech, Government, International Relations, Law & Constitution, Media & Communication, Social and Political Climate
Tags: America, blogger, Constitution, Dick Cheney, Dixie Chicks, espionage, First Dog, Freedom of Speech, Hollywood, Iran, Janeane Garofalo, journalism, journalist, Keith Olbermann, Michelle Malkin, Perez Hilton, radio talk show host, Roxana Saberi, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Bernhard, Sarah Palin, Sean Penn