hold on to your hat!

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An Iranian friend emailed me the link to this video of someone stumping for Mousavi in the Iranian parliament, not allowing himself to be gaveled down. Here is my response:

This perfectly fits our saying, "Hold on to your hat".... Whereas a similar situation here was more sedate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6wl_86qnsI

Oh, shoot, you can't watch. It's all the representatives coming in front of Al Gore as President of the Senate to protest the rigged election in 2000, and him having to deny their complaints because they weren't signed by a senator. This would have overridden the Supreme Court decision and given Gore the presidency. Senator Boxer had been willing to sign them, but Gore asked her not to.

He said publicly that after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of GWB the only recourse left to him was "armed insurrection". That wasn't true. He could have let a senator sign off on the complaints from the House. But for some completely unfathomable reason he laid down.

In 2004, Kerry won, everyone was on top of the recount to prove it, and HE too laid down.

We have had two PROVEN stolen presidential elections, and numberless lesser stolen ones.

Both Gore and Kerry wanted to be President really, really badly, and both did have the means to get past the rigging and take office, yet both mysteriously just gave up, and neither ran again. This says to me, now that I have been able to see things play out that Obama is owned by the same people who frightened Gore and Kerry out of their rightful position. He's owned by the same people who owned Bush. THEY MEAN YOU HARM.

I didn't add that, no matter what, they are safer with the regime they have, because we have been fighting about this back and forth for two weeks now. The Green Revolution is fixated on things inside Iran and ignoring the dangers lurking on the outside trying to get in. They are so fixated that they won't stop to look around, won't see how their indignation, righteous or not, is making Iran much more vulnerable than before.

It is never good to go all in with your emotions, your indignation, what you only think. It creates blind spots the size of nations and more often than not serves only to defeat you, even when you win.