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.