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11 August 2009

iranians should take heart

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Shall I introduce myself?8/12/09, 1:29 AM
After this glorious election we have proved that we don't need to be "liberated" and can very well "liberate" ourselves.
We are proud to announce that all by ourselves we set up Abu Gharib, Guantanamo even Blackwater.
We carried out a "Shock Doctrine" scenario and eliminated all the forces critical to issues such as "privatisations" etc.
If you are a critic of theocracy, rejoice as shouting "Allah o Akbar" is now forbidden, you can get arrested, even killed, and people are discouraged to participate in the Friday prayers.
Civil rights also got a boost. Now the news and the blogs are full of the sexual adventures of boys and girls during their detentions.
The list goes on and on...
Furthermore, all that is done with the blessing of the progressive blogosphere.
Cabalists of the world will be united.
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wimpy8/12/09, 10:46 AM
You had a LOT of help from US, and none of that is being done with the blessing of the "progressive" blogosphere... none of it....
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wimpy8/12/09, 11:28 AM
In fact, I watched a BBC documentary about the history of the Iranian Revolution and the enmity with the United States the other night. I was struck by the narrator's phrase, "Iranian intransigence".... I have always thought Iranian intransigence was a good thing, a thing developed over long years of U.S. and British backing a homicidal maniac Shah for fun and profit, but it appears that Iranians may be stuck in the intransigence mode... unable to see that glorious street parties in Tehran do not mean anything more profound than fun, do not mean that the rest of the population wants to throw off the theocracy the masses were so avid for during the revolution, do not mean that they weren't thrown by agents provocateurs via Twitter, precisely to whip up this massive destabilization, and with the support of the hypnotized hordes outside Iran.

While far from making whatever is happening by way of retribution or crowd control now okay, I still see it's necessary to point out that if this happened in any of the vaunted liberal democracies, the protesters would be dead in vastly bigger numbers and at least as harshly treated. Again, that doesn't excuse it, it only puts it in perspective.

And I can't help but speculate that this is better than the nukes that would have resulted if the uprising had been any more successful at destabilizing Iran, AND better than going right back to another homicidal puppet government.

I'm certain it is better than World War Three.

Intransigence is not always a good thing. It may be good for throwing off leaders, but it is not always healthy to do that. You can't use the same mind set for every occasion. That's suicide.
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wimpy8/12/09, 11:32 AM
The good part about Russia signaling its readiness to come to Iranian aid, is that it will do the most to PREVENT the need for their aid.
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11 August 2009

iranians should take heart

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