A modest suggestion

If the wingnuts want to make a real difference in Iran, they might drop the silly posturing about President Obama’s visit to an ice cream parlor and turn their attention to the Iranian regime’s corporate enablers:

A Nokia-Seimens joint venture supplied the key surveillance tech to the Iranian government that is being used to spot and bust protestors, subjecting them to massive human rights violations and endangering their lives. Seimens says it’s all Nokia’s fault, and a spokesman says they did nothing wrong because spying on and torturing dissidents is legal in Iran.

Meanwhile, Cisco and every other “western” network tech company is busily selling spyware, censorware, and other surveillance crap to every repressive government in the world, and also raking in big bucks selling unconstitutional wiretap tools to the US government for use on domestic populations…

The right to make money hand over fist is, of course, paramount in the Republican mythos. Can the right wing screech monkeys take their eyes off the almighty dollar long enough to question whether it is morally acceptable to profit from a dictatorial regime’s need to spy on its people?

UPDATE 06/22/096:00 PM EDT: The Wall Street Journal has more on the Nokia-Siemens joint venture.