{"id":308,"date":"2009-04-19T20:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/letterstofamouspeople\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-04-19T20:26:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:26:52","slug":"dear-president-ahmedinejad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/dear-president-ahmedinejad\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear President Ahmedinejad,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really kind of you to come out in favor of giving journalist Roxanna Saberi the chance to defend herself on her appeal of her conviction for spying. Pity you didn&#8217;t let her present a defense in open court from the start. But that would have just shown off that the charges were bogus and your &#8220;justice&#8221; system isn&#8217;t weighted in favor of, well, justice.<\/p>\n<p>Or try this argument: it would have been cheaper to have one good trial than one bad one and one good one. Better yet, stop charging people with crimes simply because they don&#8217;t agree with you. Imagine all the money you&#8217;d save on trials and prisons. It might also go a long way to getting the rest of the world to take you seriously without having to resort to North Korean-like tactics of using a nuclear threat to get attention.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really kind of you to come out in favor of giving journalist Roxanna Saberi the chance to defend herself on her appeal of her conviction for spying. Pity you didn&#8217;t let her present a defense in open court from the start. 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