It’s already so in Europe. The “antifas” are supposedly independent anarchists, but in reality are plausibly deniable shock troops for the socialists. They keep the right wing in line (i.e. underground and politically irrelevant) through threats, vandalism, and beatings.

I doubt the Basij are merely beating up women. Rape has long been an acceptable means of punishing uppity Islamic women.

Of course, all it takes is a single transmission of a prohibited image or video, and it’s out of their control.

The death of Neda Agha-Soltan, captured on several cell-phones, was clearly a terrorist act by the regime meant to intimidate the protesters. Other videos of the same event show Neda and her music teacher simply standing about near a lamp post on the sidewalk, watching the other people in the crowd. The crowd seen in the video is not particularly doing anything; no shouting, no chanting, no rock throwing, no fires visible, no violence of any sort visible within the view of the panning camera.

The shot was as clean as a sniper shot could be, center mass of the upper body. Not from the side, not a ricochet, not an odd angle – a clean front-on aimed shot.

When you think of it, the regime could have suppressed the transmission of cell phone messages and internet traffic. (Of course, I can’t say that as an absolute certainty, but they seem to have the typical authoritarian government’s controls in place…)

But the regime of the Mullahs WANTED the images of protesters being crushed and killed to be seen. They calculated it was in their interest for the protesters to see what sort of treatment they can expect.

It’s backfiring.

When you see that your own government counts you as expendable, you have very few choices left. You might be able to sneak across a border and get out. (Yeah, sneak into Iraq? Sneak into Afghanistan? Turkmenistan, anyone?)

You can knuckle under.

Or you can fight.

I may not know a lot about Iran, but I know it ain’t China, and it ain’t Russia.

“Malone: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That’s* the *Chicago* way! And that’s how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I’m offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?
Ness: I have sworn to capture this man with all legal powers at my disposal and I will do so.
Malone: Well, the Lord hates a coward.

And the mullah’s and basij will fear real men…and women! I only hope the real ones…the true freedom fighters are using the internet for more than twitter and facebook posts…or heaven help them because nothing else on earth will. If you’re going to shoot at the king, you better kill the king…

No, NahnCee, I don’t mean any of that. I mean an escalation well beyond that. These past indiscretions are small potatoes compared to what may be in store for us from an administration that has tested America’s tolerance for lawlesness with the GM/Chrysler takeovers, IG firings, etc., and has found us to be sheeple. We have collectively encouraged him to keep on steamrolling by our meekness.

Gee, surely you don’t mean slashing tires of Republicans, or stealing campaign signs of Republicans, or threatening voters at polling stations, or registering dead people, or raising money from overseas donors for American campaigns — all of which were done in the last election at the behest of a certain political party? So you know we can look forward to it all again in the future since it was so successful last time.

Maybe next time they try it, though, we’ll be better prepared and can perforate a few of them as they go about their hired-hand duties.

Women UNDER the rule of a Castro, a Chavez, a Nutjob, whoever the forgotten dictator of East Germany was, suffer. They are mere property to be seized and used. This is why women are often in the forefront of wanting the Big Men gone after a generation or two.

However … Women in the West don’t suffer that. It’s why Wise Latina Women, and First Ladies with $700 sneakers, and Secretary of State, don’t object to the murder of old ladies and young music student women. Why? Because the Big Men gives them chills and thrills. Women are hard-wired to desire and admire the Big Man. Give women enough of his unalloyed nature and they will find him odious. But let only the “good” things peek through — the dominance, control, authority, and Western, coddled women facing no threat, will love the guys.

It’s why educated Swedish women prefer dominant, controlling Muslim Men to their feminized counterparts. [According to Sandra Tsing Loh in the Atlantic.] It’s why women in the West support the Castros and NutJobs, and women who live under them despise them (as they are treated as no better than sex slaves).

Nothing will change in the West until women get exactly what they crave — rule of a dominating, female-oriented, Big Man who is the absolute and unchallenged King. And they get a full bellyfull of him.

Is it paranoid and racist to compare The New Black Panther Party “poll watchers” with the Basij?

Those ACORN “Census takers” are going to need Personal Security Details in some less progressive neighborhoods. Reckon the Fruit of Islam and NBPP have it covered?

It’s more likely that Americorps and other federally-funded “volunteer” organizations will recruit aggressively among street gangs, under the guise of “reforming” them. With gangs of federally-funded young men (and women) inured to violence at the beck-and-call of “community organizers,” we will have bully boys, but 2-to-3 degrees of separation removed from party and activist leadership.

With the current economic and fiscal policies creating more and bigger opportunities for the expansion of organized crime, expect greater mob influence in unions, and expect organized crime coffers to swell further with things like an expansion of the cigarette-smuggling trade, and any other “underground economy” answers to over-regulation. Criminal mercenaries doing the bidding of activists at the behest of a certain political party’s operatives may become a part of our near future.