Comments on: A Front Seat to Historic Change in Iran

By: CrossBow33

CrossBow33 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:30:15 +0000

We will not intervene. We can not. We can express solidarity with the protestors, and ignore claims of US interference in Iranian internal affairs.

“Marg bar dictator”

By: Chuck Pelto

Chuck Pelto — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:44:00 +0000

TO: Fairbanks99
RE: Indeed…..

The difference is, America’s people are a whole lot better armed than Iran’s. — Fairbanks99

….we are.

But I’m waiting for the other ’shoe’ to drop. First we have the DHS claiming conservatives with military training are a ‘threat to national security’.

Now we have this ‘hate crimes’ bill before Congress that is aimed at conservatives expressing their honestly held opinions.

I expect to see legislation or some treaty end-run that will outlaw the ownership of weapons and/or ammunition. And THAT will be, in my professional military mind, a ‘key indicator’ that things are going to get ‘interesting’.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Be prepared! -- Boy Scout motto]

By: chi hair straightener

chi hair straightener — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:31:25 +0000

All these people want is the same thing that a chance for life, Liberty. Long live freedom!

By: Listen up

Listen up — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:53:17 +0000

They should have never killed Neda…now the movement will grow and the Mullah’s will not be able to wash Neda’s blood off their hands. Who shot Neda? Whoever you are I hope you see her death everytime you close your eyes. I hope you see her in every female face you look at. You may be breathing but you are already dead. May the Iranian people cast off the bloody, oppressive yoke of the Mullahs and their fat, greedy fists.

By: David W. Lincoln

David W. Lincoln — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:55:57 +0000

Those who could do something, but marginalize themselves, will, by the end, have exacted a very
heavy penalty – on themselves, and by themselves.

No matter how they justify their stance, there is no getting around what they have done to themselves, and ultimately everyone.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:51:29 +0000

Without killing the man (men?) who hold the position of dictator, it is still possible for “death to the dictator” to come to be, by killing off the position of dictator. There are subtleties to Arabic that don’t translate easily, but I have no expertise to say that this is what is intended here. But it is possible.

Your writing shines as always, Michele.

By: michele

michele — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:31:42 +0000

X Contra, I understand what you are saying and I thought about that after the article went to print. However, I don’t think I would change it, because it’s not the sentiment of “Death to the Dictator” that’s important; it’s the fact that there are thousands of people on the streets of Iran chanting words that would never be heard in public before.

By: X Contra

X Contra — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:55:05 +0000

Michele, I don’t mean to criticize, but that opening quotation of BHO quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is contradictory to “death to the dictator” shouts you feature here.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. always said that justice was his goal, not victory, revenge or power. It is a profound difference between Dr. King and the shouters of “death to the dictator.”

But yesterday I read an interesting line from PersianKiwi on Twitter:

If you catch militia – do not use violence do not kill him –
treat him as your brother.

That is a significant departure from the revenge stream of “death to the dictator” etc. I blogged it up yesterday, along with the Ten Commandments of Nonviolence that Dr. King, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth et al. used 50 years ago. I blogged them up because I know from personal experience that those ten commandments work!

You should educate yourself about Dr. King, Rev. Shuttlesworth and those guys. Well worth learning about their philosophy.

By: Ria

Ria — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:53:36 +0000

Why is everyone complaining that Obama is not interfering enough in Iran’s domestic issues when America stood and watched Mugabe kill members of the opposition who were protesting their rigged elections. Why didn’t Americans go in and stop the violence then? Why is Iran different?

By: Fairbanks99

Fairbanks99 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:46:57 +0000

#4, Chuck. The difference is, America’s people are a whole lot better armed than Iran’s. (The real reason behind all the ‘gun control’, is of course, ‘control’. Can’t have an armed citizenry opposing the benevolent state now, can we?)