The BBC's heart bleeds for human shields. They try to tell the sad story of Faith Fippinger, who broke the law and an international economic embargo when she traveled to Iraq to support Saddam Hussein's brutal regime.

For travelling to Iraq Faith Fippinger will now probably lose her house, her pension and go to jail.

I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for Ms. Fippinger. She should have known that she was violating the law, exhibited if anything by the lack of U.S. commercial flights into Baghdad. Setting aside the fact that she aided and abetted the enemy, she broke the law the same as if she had gone to Cuba or any other nation that Americans are not permitted to visit.

In her defense, she has likened the Bush Administration to Saddam, and claims that her freedom of travel and speech is being violated. Of course, if Bush were really like Saddam, she never would have received a letter from the treasury department, she would have simply disappeared. There would be no charges filed, and no trial. If America was like Saddam's Iraq, she would have been wisked away to an undisclosed location, had a confession beaten out of her, raped, and then executed.

She claims, "It's in regimes like Saddam Hussein's where that freedom [of speech] is not allowed", which begs me to question just why she was supporting such a brutal regime in the first place.