It would have been easy enough to let Lohan's "F*** U" nail-job explanation go as her latest hilarious delusion: "@liana_levi didn't we do our nails as a joke with our friend dc? it had nothing to do w/court.. it's an airbrush design from a stencil xx." But last night, after some small talk, things just got weird:
# It is clearly stated in Article 5 of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights that....
# "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
# this was taken from an article by Erik Luna.. "November 1 marked the 15th anniversary of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. But there were no
# celebrations, parades, or other festivities in honor of this punishment scheme created by Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission...."
# Instead, the day passed like most others during the last 15 years:Scores of federal defendants sentenced under a constitutionally perverted"
# system that saps moral judgment through its mechanical rules."
# http://tinyurl.com/29kxdyf -- please RT
That link will take you to a story about Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman first jailed five years ago on adultery charges, then later convicted without much evidence and sentenced to die by stoning as early as this weekend.
By stoning! The barbarity (and gradual discontinuance) of the practice in Iran is a subject for another Web site, but Lohan's invocation of Ashtiani's case is ill-timed to say the least. Or, to say the most, it's kind of appalling, no? Or maybe I'm missing something here, and the whole segue from the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to a woman about to be stoned to death is just coincidence. Who knows? But: If the expletive on Lindsay Lohan's fingernail can raise even the slightest cultural interest in the plight of a doomed Iranian woman, then maybe not all is lost. Step it up, Charlie Sheen.
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