Berkeley Hikers Freed From Iran To Speak At Occupy Wall Street Protest…
Iran should have kept them.
(NBC) — The Iran hikers chose the city of Oakland and the Occupy movement as the backdrop for a rare public appearance Monday.
Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal said they will be at Frank Ogawa plaza at 5 p.m. to take part in an Occupy Oakland rally.
Up until now Occupy rallies have been mostly economic protests, but the hikers may turn Monday night into a political rally.
Organizers of Occupy Oakland said they will talk about the connections that can be drawn between what the trio went through in Iran and the situation in U.S. prisons, as well as the hunger strikes taking place in California prisons.
This is only their second public appearance since returning home to the United States after being freed from prison in Iran. They were arrested in July 2009 after Iran said they crossed over its border during a hike in northern Iraq. Shourd was released in Sept. 2010. Bauer and Fattal were released last month.
All three graduated from University of California at Berkeley and Shourd has been living in Oakland since her release.
The anti-Wall Street protests started in New York City a month ago and have spread across the country.
Occupy groups cite the economic disparity between the richest 1 percent of the population and the remaining 99 percent. They have been calling for increased regulation of banks and Wall Street investment firms.
There are also occupy groups in San Jose, Walnut Creek, Santa Rosa and San Rafael and other cities. On Monday afternoon, an Occupy group was scheduled to protest at the gates of Pebble Beach in Monterey County.
They also thanked CAIR for seeking their release.
Posted by ZIP on Monday, October 17, 2011, at 9:23 pm | 
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Just look at these fucks……………every picture tlls a story……
bunch of idiots, those evil rich people paid the 1 million dollar ransom for those lunatics.
I initially had a lot of sympathy for them, rooted for their release, as soon as I heard they said America has to release its political prisoners (meaning Gitmo) like Iran should (which is a dictatorship), I lost pretty much all sympathy for these freaks.
And now I read this, bunch of lunatic freaks.
Is it just me, or do these folks look very, very creepy?
I have ZERO interest in anything they have to say.
Like I said earlier .their parents problably spit on Viet Nam vets…………..as for me I say…….don’t buy their book….
my prediction, any sympathy these morons had from the public, the generally sane middle of the road Americans, will be evaporated after this rally.
Iran realized they can do more damage to America if these leftists were freed.
Add: sad that the left doesn’t realize this.
Now we get good pix of these ‘boys’. FLAMERS.
Berkeley= dirty kotex
Stockholm’s Syndrome.
They look like creepy losers, as does the faux-girl they have with them.
3 Jews hiking in Iran? What next, the White House?
Just how high of an IQ would you have adding up all 3 of theirs?
Truth be told I bet their parents are dissapointed in these fuking loosers..
Hiking along Iran’s border makes as much sense as sleeping on train tracks.
Iran should have gave them 3 days in the electric chair…
Was Sarah Shourd checked by the Iran guard if she was a virgin
if not was she used as a sex toy or did the boys pop her..
And we could have freed them with a Predator Drone……
Now, there was onemillion dollars that did not create or save any jobs in the US.
@friday….no rape in Tehran…….unless it was of the male persusasion…
They might be retarded. I don’t know how else someone accidentally walks across the border into Iran.
U-s-e-f-u-l-l I-d-i-o-t-s
“Organizers of Occupy Oakland said they will talk about the connections that can be drawn between what the trio went through in Iran and the situation in U.S. prisons, as well as the hunger strikes taking place in California prisons.”
Wad all that up, and you wouldn’t have enough substance to wipe your ass.
I wonder if they noticed all the anti-semitic signs?
Cover the bitch with a burqa. No, cover both bitches with burqas and cover the girl too while you’re at it.
Walking around in a war zone at the Iranian border. They should get the dumbfucks of the year award.
They will be amongst there peer group. O’s Marxist army
“All three graduated from University of California at Berkeley…”
So this is a good lesson for parents…Just because it’s a big-name school, it doesn’t mean they’re gonna learn a thing.
I was against bringing them “home” in the first place. Berkeley idealists – off to free the world one hike at a time. What a joke.
Anyone really surprised? Remember reading about their past, previous jobs and areas they resided in?
I could have cared less if they were released back then, I could care less about them now.
Could someone tell me if it was ever said who paid the ransom/bail?
Hike to North Korea, morons!
I am confused. I thought it was two men and a woman who were imprisoned in Iran. Which one is the woman and who are the men. I can’t tell. It looks like two women and a man. Who the hell is who. These three shit birds should be shipped off to a North Korea prison camp where they can live in a communist country to their hearts content.
No. never found out who paid the ransome but it was 500000 for her and then 500000 for the boys together it appears. I”m sure there is as interesting background stories on these three as there was on Mr. Ted Hall III, trust fund baby.
“Push-em back…push-em back….waaaaayyyyyy back!”
….all the way to the Iran-Iraq border…and let’s have a
repeat 4th down.
“Iran should have kept them.”
No, worse.
According to this article, the Sultan of Oman paid the ransome for the hikers. Eyebleach alert! The photo makes it look like they’ve visited Barney Frank’s house a few times too many!
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/09/oman-foots-1-million-bail-to-free-us-hikers/245480/
Anyone who is stupid enough to go hiking ina hostile nation should get a kick in the rear and not a podium to blabber off his stupid mouth
I don’t think this travesty is really worth a comment…yet I did.
damn me!
should have told Iran to keep them….we sure as hell don’t want them…
Obviously the Iranians didn’t beat any sense into them. Their parent should ask for a full tuition refund from Berkely. Occupy Oakland? So they finally found some people who want to go to Oakland? Now that’s funny!
Stupid id as stupid does! nuf said!
*is* …sorry forest!
These heroes might be in Oakland this evening but I can guarantee, they’re NEVER going back to Iran.
Just goes to show you Berkley is such a bad school that its graduates don’t have the collective intelligence to realize hiking in a warzone isn’t a rational thing to do. But whoever accused Marxists of being rational?
And they work where?
Just give them time and they will be in peril if their own making again – kind of like the Obama admin.
Great more entitled rich white liberal brats.
OWS and the hippy orgy can have em.
These Berkeley grads should be so proud to support this brilliant movement:
http://sharpelbowsstl.blogspot.com/2011/10/howard-stern-exposes-occupy-wall-st.html
I volunteer to beat the crap out of them.
Gay.
Completely gay.
Next, one or more will run for congress from Seattle, and win!!!
Note to Teat Party – keep trotting out creeps like these so EVERYONE can see what you’re really about….
@Junius, I’m with you, my first thought looking at that photo,
I thought there were two men?
Can you Imagine? camping out on an extended hike with these two/three?
If these three were asking ‘friends’ to join them on a hike, I would think about the most adventurous they were going to get was Hollywood blvd
their poor parents
Good Grief,
If those sleeping bags could only talk
The CREATURES of the ID as in IDIOT like their berkley jerks
That chick looks more mannish than the two dudes combined !