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Comment by freddealmeida | Hacker News Reader

So we ask a snow board instructor to save a man held by an outrageous government? We also realize that there is so little gain for our little snow boarder. He will do nothing. Canada could probably do little in any case

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Resenting a politician because they once had a low-paid, entry level job is a new one.

Not really! The current Indian PM was son of a tea seller and i see people making fun of it on social media. I don't even know what to say to these kind of people.

Yeah, the nerve of someone for understanding what it's like to earn a paycheck and have to work for every dollar you have. How are you ever going to understand your electorate of 0.1% elites?

Especially when our previous Prime Minister started his career working in a mail room.

I worked at Tim Hortons. Can I still be Prime Minister?

No. You will be drafted to work at Tim Hortons because so many of our fellow Canadians are obsessed with that shitty donut shop.

I take it you would prefer to be ruled by a dyed-in-the-wool blue-blooded aristocrat, who has never done a day of work in his life?

Or hell, why not just auction the PM's office off to the highest bidder?

Or hell, why not bring the Divine Right of Kings back?

Perhaps you take the wrong message from this appeal to help out a young man (and family) whose life is forever changed. You and I are not the only ones eager to right this injustice- there are other individuals and organizations arguing his case, in Canada and, undoubtedly, in Tehran. This post, and many other like them, add up to something substantive, whether within the the preferred time-frame (Now!) or a little later on. Outrageous governments like Iran's cannot stand the test of time (admittedly, there will always be evil of one kind or another, just as, Jesus said, there will always be poverty) and it is events like these, and the pressure that they invoke from external (read international) and internal parties (rest assured that there are countless discussions on how these injustices can be resolved within the Iranian state, more so in the wake of the recent nuclear deal) that the infrastructure of oppression will eventually be dismantled. For instance, while the Arab Spring produced mixed results, numerous organizations trained activists for decades, one at a time (perhaps a little more, perhaps a little less), training them on organizing petitions, using Tor, launching demonstrations, keeping safe... What I am saying is that (and you will hear this a lot here, in other forums, and in everyday life, that is, if you haven't already) it all starts from somewhere- at the end of the day, everything counts.

And Reagan was a lifeguard, what difference does it make?

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