It’s Hard To Voice The Level Of Disgust…
June 23, 2009
that I’m sure we all feel watching what’s going on in Iran.
The British intelligentsia have provided a report that shows that it’s not so much the vote was rigged as it was completely predetermined, that it is impossible to count 40 million votes in 2 hours, that the Interior Ministry did all the “vote counting” instead of the local municipalities (as had been the case in all prior elections), that the percentages never changed, and that there was a real rush to certify Ahmadinejad as the winner.
Further, the horrific violence, demonstrated in the shooting of student Neda Agha Soltan (captured for the world to see on a cell phone camera), is just that (never mind that these animals are charging families $3000 for a “bullet fee” that killed their loved ones). The mindless thuggishness of the Iranian regime is radicalizing their own people. Khameini, in his desperate attempt to hold power in the face of a burgeoning new revolution, is reverting to the very tactics that the Shah used in his waning days of power, where many of the Islamic revolutionaries were arrested, tortured, etc. The government is arresting senior aides to the reformists Afsanjani and Khatami (two former presidents), and Moussavi’s campaign manager.
Adding to this maskirovka (a Russian word for charade), staged confessions were aired on Iranian TV (with the faces of the “confessed” blurred out), saying that Voice of America made them protest, not the sham election. Yeah, well, I’ve got beachfront property in Idaho to sell them if that’s true. Seriously? That’s the best they’ve got? Propaganda tends to fail when the unvarnished truth is available elsewhere (read: Internet). Staged confessions when people are seeing protestors being shot for peacefully, silently, marching in the streets aren’t going to pass muster.
I appreciate the President speaking up today and condemning the violence in far more forceful terms, since it’s become obvious that keeping a low profile isn’t going to stop the Tehran thugs from lying their asses off about our supposed “incitement” of the demonstrators. Obviously, he has to be careful about what he says, but when even the UN Secretary General spoke out in harsh terms about the regime’s election fraud and unprovoked violence, and the response from Tehran was, “These stances are an evident contradiction of the UN secretary general’s duties, international law and are an apparent meddling in Iran’s internal affairs. Ban Ki-moon has damaged his credibility in the eyes of independent countries by ignorantly following some domineering powers which have a long record of uncalled-for interference in other countries’ internal affairs and colonisation.”
“Meddling in [insert nation name here]’s affairs” is code for “Let us beat the living hell out of people, surpress dissent, and steal elections while you shut it.” The world will do those brave souls in Iran a favor and tell the Tehran thugs to “shove it.” We cannot keep quiet, not as Americans, not as a free world, and allow the best chance we’ve had to bring Iran back into the free world slip away. Our leaders must be careful, think through what action they will take, but we must not yield in our support for the end of violence and the simple demand that the will of the people of Iran be heard over that of a regime of tyranny that perverts God’s name as an excuse to oppress their people.
I guess I was able to voice that disgust, wasn’t I?
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