Moral Police Hit the Slopes

“REUTERS
TEHRAN---Iran has set up its first mountain police units to patrol the ski slopes and enforce the country's strict Islamic law on the separation of the sexes, the conservative Kayan daily has reported.

Ski resorts close to Tehran have in recent years become a favorite venue for rich young Iranians to meet away from the prying eyes of conservatives.

"The police will warn or confront skiers over any immoral act they might witness," the newspaper said.

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, unmarried Iranian men and women have been frobidden to socialize in public. Before the election of moderate President Mohammad Khatami in 1997, ski slopes were strictly segregated by sex.

Are we headed for a theocracy here?”

“Kareful on Katahdin: Gestapo Smokies glassing the slopes for unsuspectin' pot-puffers.”

“Lousy fudge-packers!!!”

“Tom I heard an interview on NPR yesterday about the Talibhan SP?(in Afghanistan) . Anyway the interveiwee was an American woman in SUPPORT of the new regime. She commented about how swell they were and how misunderstood. Pretty creepy.”

“The "American" woman was born in Afganistan.
She went back.
I consider her support of the Taliban highly suspect.
She went out of her way to justify the way Afgan men treat the women.
She sounds as though she has been brainwashed.
The Taliban are using her as a positive spin meister.”

“Kinda like a black Republican?”

“tom, you are a sneaky stinker.”

“Dat's right!
~@%^>”

“I believe the Afghanistan woman came here, realized she has masochistic tendencies and went home to practice the art. What a crock!”

“I am heartened that so many listen to NPR!

Long live Carl Kasell!”

“I saw a black republican once. He was on a political coment show and couldn't give any good reasons why he was one.”

“One way to get rid of an enemy is to make him your friend. ;-)”

“"Black Republicans" was a kinda cherry we picked decades ago out in Wenatchee: Dark n' Sweet!”

“Abe Lincoln was a Republican.”

“Keep thread alive or Communist-dopefiend-fag paranoia will prevail.”

“Abe Lincoln was a white Republican.”