Upping The Ante
June 21, 2009
They don’t get it.
Calling Moussavi a “criminal”, arresting the former president’s daughter, holding Newsweek reporters without charges, and trying to blame the deaths on “terrorists” when the only terrorists are the Basij militia, well, it’s a nice little propaganda move, but I don’t see it carrying any resonance.
The Internet allows people to cut through the “reality” as provided by state-run media, which is the tool of dictatorships. It’s one more way that people can see the truth, and the truth is that Iran’s militias are killing protestors and inciting violence, not Moussavi, and the more they incite, the more that they will create backlash against themselves.
The next few days will say a lot. Either people start hiding out, or there’s going to be an explosion in the streets that nobody is going to be able to control. Khameini and his bunch may think they’re God’s chosen ones, but I don’t think God looks kindly upon repression, false arrests, lies, and violence to protect power. I do believe that was supposedly the point of the 1979 revolution. The revolutionaries have now become like the Shah in their desire to keep power. It is up to the new ones to show them the futility of such a choice, and perhaps Iran will have true democracy very soon.
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June 22nd, 2009 at 12:33 am
From your keyboard to God’s eye, Thad.