Iranian update!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090717/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election
Protestors in Iran are still fighting for their rights. I haven’t commented on this issue in a few days, but it is still very near and dear to my heart.
On Fridays, the militia fired tear gas at protestors inside the mosque at Friday prayers. As the former president Rafsanjani criticized the Iranian government for post election violence the protestors yelled “Azadi! Azadi!” Persian for “freedom.”
But tear gas was not the only disturbing thing going on. Hard line supporters of the regime bullied and pushed the opposition leaders as they were headed for the prayers. According to the AP, “As she headed for the university, a prominent women’s rights activist, Shadi Sadr, was beaten by militiamen, pushed into a car and driven away to an unknown location, Mousavi’s Web site http://www.mowjcamp.com and a women’s rights site http://www.meydaan.com said.”
Reports have been coming in from Iran saying that the morgues have been filling up in Tehran with hundreds of unidentified bodies. People are disappearing and being killed. It stinks of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.
Rafsanjani’s sermon during prayers is heartening to see that he wants his people to be united but it will fall on deaf ears. The government will continue to ignore the will of the people as they continue to pretend to know what’s best for them. But, as it is with all tyrants; it’s not about the people it’s about the POWER.
Look, this is tyranny at its finest. But its also good to see that the people of Iran are not giving up. The people outnumber the tyrants in the government. If I’ve learned anything from reading about revolutions it is that.
Our government is failing to properly support this fight for freedom. I’m not talking about arms and troops; I’m talking about support from our president and State Department. For instance, WHY isn’t Hillary Clinton calling out the Iranians for abducting the women’s rights activists? Why isn’t she speaking out against the horrible treatment that women get in many of these so-called “republics?” All we get is empty drivel about how they are “concerned.”
Our nation is not far behind the kind of tyranny that is in Iran. Our tyranny will not be religious but the assault on our economic freedom and the freedom of our healthcare choices will lead us down the road to a police state.
Our election system already resembles that of Iran.
Our system for elections has been under severe scrutiny since the debacle of 2000 in Florida. But lets be honest, election fraud is just another institution of corruption that we have to deal with on a daily basis. The 1960 election was won due to election fraud, and now we have Al Franken declared the winner after a massive 8-month scam job. Thanks a lot Minnesota, you elected Franken, but the jokes on us.
This system where ballots are counted in secret and are recounted until the loser is declared the winner is nothing more than Iranian-style election fraud. We’re so sure that Ahmadinejahd won that election fair and square…. The only difference between our election system and the Iranian one is that we actually pretend to count our votes. They don’t they just declare winners.
This whole thing was so crooked from the beginning but I strangely knew how it would turn out. The Democrats couldn’t steal their election against Bush in Florida and they were NOT about to lose this time.
It’s pretty obvious what happened here.
Franken lost fair and square but it was so close the Franken camp saw an opportunity to rig the results in his favor by “recounting” ONLY in areas which were heavily Democratic. Oh my! What a big surprise! They “found” more votes (cough cough…created) for Franken! With the media leaning hard left these days it was pretty easy to censor the objections of Norm Colman from ever really getting his message out there. And the Supreme Court of Minnesota? Come on! They love that guy! He’s so funny!
Why didn’t they just declare him the winner from the get go? I mean why bother counting votes at all? Why not become like Iran? Why not model our government after theirs? Oh yeah! Don’t worry, we’re getting there.
The sad thing is that the Iranian people are FIGHTING for their rights. They have no weapons but they have will and they will not be silenced. We have all kinds of rights and liberties guaranteed to us by the Constitution and we just roll over and die… This is very very sad.
The King of Pop? How about people with REAL Problems??
So the King of Pop and one of Charlie’s Angels has died today. But did you know that right now there is a massacre going on in Iran? I’d hate to be the guy who doesn’t seem to care that two important American icons are dead, but this stuff that’s going on in Iran is more important to me. This isn’t people dying of heart attacks and cancer; this is people who are being killed by tyrannical governments.
It’s sad to me that more people care that Michael Fucking Jackson is dead but people are being MURDERED in Iran with clubs and axes and guns. It’s a fucking disgrace that more people care about Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. I don’t want to hear anymore about it today.
It’s pathetic that all the news agencies are now going to run all this coverage on Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett when there are people who got real problems.
Why am I so locked in on Iran? Lets just say that I think OUR government is perfectly capable of this kind of tyranny. If you don’t believe me then lets go back in time to Ruby Ridge. Remember when federal agents shot the woman holding a baby? Remember how they shot their son? Why? Because they guy had some illegal rifles? He wasn’t hurting anybody but the federal government decided that is was worth kiling a whole family over.
Remember Waco? Remember what that was all about? Was it about the wacky cult? No it was about guns. Again the Branch Davidians weren’t doing anything to anybody but we felt that it was worth killing all those people over some assault rifles, which according to the constitution they were perfectly within their rights to do own. But what do I know?
Our government is out of control with spending and trying to take over people’s lives with nationalized healthcare, auto and banking czars, restricting pay and trying to regulate every aspect of our lives. When are we going to understand? Iran? Yeah THAT’S GOING TO BE US!!! Maybe one day WE’RE going to be the ones on YouTube asking for help from other countries. Maybe we’re going to be the ones who are forced to die because the government has no more health care funds for us. Maybe We’re going to be the ones who are shot in the streets because the government already took out firearms away.
I’m not calling for a revolution… well not a violent one… but a POLITICAL revolution where people stand up for thier rights and don’t let the government dictate their lives.
So the King of Pop and one of Charlie’s Angels has died today. But did you know that right now there is a massacre going on in Iran? I’d hate to be the guy who doesn’t seem to care that two important American icons are dead, but this stuff that’s going on in Iran is more important to me. This is people dying of heart attacks and cancer this is people who are being killed by tyrannical governments.
It’s sad to me that more people care that Michael Fucking Jackson is dead but people are being MURDERED in Iran with clubs and axes and guns. It’s a fucking disgrace that more people care about Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. I don’t want to hear anymore about it today.
It’s pathetic that all the news agencies are now going to runn all this coverage on Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett when there are people who got real problems.
Why am I so locked in on Iran? Lets just say that I think OUR government is perfectly capable of this kind of tyranny. If you don’t believe me then lets go back in time to Ruby Ridge. Remember when federal agents shot the woman holding a baby? Remember how they shot their son? Why? Because they guy had some illegal rifles? He wasn’t hurting anybody but the federal government decided that is was worth kiling a whole family over.
Remember Waco? Remember what that was all about? Was it about the wacky cult? No it was about guns. Again the Branch Davidians weren’t doing anything to anybody but we felt that it was worth killing all those people over some assault rifles, which according to the constitution they were perfectly within their rights to do own. But what do I know?
Our government is out of control with spending and trying to take over people’s lives with nationalized healthcare, auto and banking czars, restricting pay and trying to regulate every aspect of our lives. When are we going to understand? Iran? Yeah THAT’S GOING TO BE US!!! Maybe one day WE’RE going to be the ones on YouTube asking for help from other countries. Maybe we’re going to be the ones who are forced to die because the government has no more health care funds for us. Maybe We’re going to be the ones who are shot in the streets because the government already took out firearms away.
I’m not calling for a revolution… well not a violent one… but a POLITICAL revolution where people stand up for thier rights and don’t let the government dictate their lives.
Iran’s President calls Obama ‘just like Bush’
Well FINALLY someone gets this right! Of course he’s just like Bush. Especially in the who Big Spending arena. But in this case Obama’s stance on Iran is also very similar to Bush’s albeit maybe a bit softer. I think Ahmidboobeeepoop is going to be sorry for calling Obama a Bush. That’s just a bad word in Democrat land…. Iran’s best hope to be re-integrated into the mainstream world (while still remaining under the current totalitarian regime) was with Obama. Now he wants Obama to apologize…
Sorry Charlie, Obama only apologizes for Bush not for himself you got this guy all wrong. And Obama shouldn’t apologize because his stance on the violence in Iran is correct (I wish he would have condemned the police state sooner and shown more support for the protesters sooner) for the most part. So go eat pig poo Ahmedimwitpawn.
I’m glad for one thing, much of the rest of the world sees the Republicans and Democrats for what they really are, the same train moving at different speeds. Remember Elliot Spitzer? Yeah what a douche, now the GOP has Gov. Sanford who was apparently flying to Argentina to see his mistress… Another one bites the dust. Both Spitzer and Sanford were presidential hopefuls for the near future. I guess we all can’t be as slick as Bill Clinton… Oh wait, he wasn’t that slick either. In fact cheating on your wife is no reason to stop running for president!
But back to Iran. I think the Iranian President is going to be unhappy for a couple of reasons. 1. he is losing his country and the people will overthrown him and his Ayatollah puppet masters. 2. The Ayatollahs in a desperate attempt to regain control will relent to the people’s demand for a new election and Ahmedirkaderrr will lose.
Witnesses report clashes around Iran’s parliament
The loving and peaceful government of Iran is promising swift and painful action against the protestors. Yay for the supreme ruler! How dare those peasants challenge his authoritahhh?
Neda Soltan was an Angel of Freedom
Her friends and family describe her as “full of joy,” “A beam of light,” and “Angel of Freedom.”
The image of her brutal murder by Iranian State Police has bolstered support for protesters as they speak out against this senseless killing even though they are not legally allowed to mourn her bloody death.
Neda was gunned down during protests in the capital. You can see videos and photos of it all over twitter and youtube. They show her bleeding from the mouth and nose as her friends try to stop the blood loss. The most moving part is when her music teacher is holding her in his arms begging her to stay alive and to hold on. “Neda, don’t be afraid. Neda, stay with me. Neda stay with me!”
Click here for photos. (WARNING: Graphic)
She was very fond of traveling and had been to Dubai, Turkey and even Thailand. She apparently gave up studying in Tehran in order to become a tour guide and possibly travel with Iranian Students abroad. Her music Teacher Hamid Panahi described her as an accomplished singer who had taken up piano lessons with him.
Her parents asked her not to go protests but she was so angered by the injustice that she was compelled to go.
Around 6:30 pm Neda, her piano teacher Panhi and two others were stuck in traffic as they went towards the protest. At one point they got out of the car to get some air when they heard a distinct “Crack.” Neda Soltan was on the ground.
The L.A. Times quotes Panahi, “we were stuck in traffic and we got out and stood to watch, and without her throwing a rock or anything they shot her. It was just one bullet.”
“I’m burning, I’m burning!” Were her final words.
She was rushed to the hospital where the doctors tried to save her life but she was reported as dead on arrival. Cut down by a brutal regime only because she wanted freedom and honesty in the government.
Mehdi Khalaji, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Affairs, told FOXNews.com that Neda has become “one of the pillars of this movement now,” and the bloody images of her dying in the street are its “main icons and symbols.”
To add insult to injury the Iranian government has forbidden all mosques in Iran from holding any kind of ceremony, or vigil, not even a eulogy for the fallen woman. Her own family was denied a ceremony and funeral then they tried to hold one in Northern Tehran. “Grave consequences” awaited those who gathered. Outrageous.
“They were threatened that if people wanted to gather there the family would be charged and punished,” Samsami told FOXnews.com.
Ayatollah Khomeini is being blamed at least in part for her murder. His threatening speech was given just prior to the violence breaking out.
“For the first time since the election it seems that people are including in their slogans ‘Down with Khomeini,’ and ‘Death to Khomeini,’” says Khalaji.
The Iranian government of course denies that they used any lethal force to put down the protests and blames faction groups loyal to deposed and exiled rulers.
Neda’s fiance says Caspian, says that she did not even support a single candidate but was outraged at the corruption and oppression of the Iranian government.
Neda wanted “freedom for all,” he said.
Reference: FoxNews.com – Iran’s Angel of Freedom
Click here to read more on this story from the Los Angeles Times.
Click here to read more on this story from the New York Post.
Fastest Recount in History
As Iranians beg for freedom and fairness the “guardian council” (the most laughable name for a government body) has declared that there was no fraud. Obviously they have magic powers as they did when they counted the first time. This is what happens when a country has supreme leaders and such. The only thing the guardian council was guarding was its own ass. In a totalitarian regime anything is possible if the government says it is. Millions of Ballots can be counted in a matter of minutes, fraud can be determined in the same amount of time. With a wave of a magic wand this all happens to the wonderment to the people. WOW!
I know that this is not a surprise to anyone, but this is the place that WE are headed. In this country we now have Czars. We have people with massive regulatory powers who were never elected and serve at the pleasure of the President. These Czars can say or do anything and the people have no power to remove them from office or even check their work. We have Bank Czars, Auto czars, bailout czars, pay czars… I think there’s 8 in all but whatever right.
Look we can all sit here and believe that Obama was “Forced into these actions by the Bush administration” or we can believe the truth. Obama is doing EXACTLY what Bush was doing by taking power from the people and giving unbelievable powers to the government. We can believe the truth that Obama had other options that could save our economy and those options he intentionally ignored in order to consolidate power for himself and his buddies.
We are becoming Iran. We are slapping chains on ourselves as they fight to brake theirs off.
Iranian Propaganda Machine
The Iranian Example
So we have Iranians protesting in the streets about the results of their elections. We have a brutal police state cracking down on the protests at every turn and (according to the Iranian government) killing at least 17 protestors in the process. What are the Iranians protesting? Are they protesting the results of a single election? No.
They are protesting the Ayatollahs! In reality the Iranian people are sick of being offered “choices” instead they want actual choices. The Ayatollahs set the real policy by approving candidates. You can rest assured that no candidate can be approved without following the Ayatollahs policies. So if the Iranians want a free election they must remove the Ayatollahs
In a twisted way we have a very similar situation here in the U.S. We’re told that we have two choices in government: Republicans and Democrats. Both are run by the political elite. Both conduct themselves in secret back room meetings and push policy that is contrary to the wishes of the American People. Yet we’re told that these are our only choices. Red or Blue and there are no other colors.
Maybe Iran isn’t lagging behind us in the philosophy of democracy. Maybe we are looking at the future of the U.S. Maybe we’re going to be in the streets one day getting beaten down by police simply because we want freedom. We want real freedom and not the appearance of freedom, not “choices” but actual choices.
Support for the Iranian Counterrevolution.
As we go on about our daily lives the good people of Iran are being oppressed. Their government set up a phony election and gave them a phony result. We don’t need to go into the logistical impossibilities of counting 44 million votes in a matter of minutes, that’s barely the point. What must be noted is that the people of Iran were outraged by this and started to (rightfully so) protest in anger. The Iranian government first responded by trying to beat their people into submission and then, when that didn’t work, by shooting them into submission. I am proud to say though they have not been subdued as of yet.
If we as a country really respect freedom we should support the people of Iran as they rise up against their theocratic oppressors. Our government should be offering its support for a truly democratic Iran which is ruled by laws, not religions, not kings or clerics, but just laws that protect the rights of all, including women and children. Our government does not seem to be doing this, instead they are enacting caution.
It’s hard to blame someone for being cautious, but at what point do we stop playing the “let’s see who wins” game and start taking real sides. If we play this game as we did in Iraq in the 1980’s and 1990’s then the totalitarian regime will be able to repress the democratic momentum as was done in Iraq when we offered our support and then stayed our hand at the last moment. Thousands of Kurds were killed and we did nothing for a decade. It’s no wonder that so many nations feel as they do about the United States. We’re all talk. And when we do act its usually a decade or two too late.
But now it’s worse. We’re not even talking. We’re not even offering our support to the counterrevolution in Iran. It needs support. It needs to know that we are with them. They are encouraged by the results in Iraq. They see that freedom is a true possibility.
