Comments on: This is what the Iranian people are up against

By: Mr. Frank

Mr. Frank — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:53:00 +0000

The Iranian young people are really up against it. Unlike the victims of the tragic Hungarian revolt of 1956 who could escape into Austria, they have nowhere to run. Perhaps they can head north into the Kurdish area and then west into the Kurdish area of Iraq.

By: GeoPal

GeoPal — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:26:36 +0000

Wafa Sultan, a Muslim apostate born in Syria, a woman, and a psychiatrist, said that growing up as a Muslim and seeing its effect on people had convinced her that Islam is a totalitarian political ideology. She, being a woman and a psychiatrist has put it more gently than I would have but her condemnation is refreshing all the same.

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:37:17 +0000

Actually the mullahs are nicer…..

hard to believe but true…

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:45:39 +0000

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Word from Iran is that the authorities have forced Neda’s father to appear on state television and say that the protestors, and not the regime, killed her.

By: armchair pessimist

armchair pessimist — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:00:21 +0000

The prisoners of Eastern Europe at least had a memory of law and liberty. The only hope for those poor kids in Iran is that the government be too stupid to buy their generation off with prosperity.

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:17:11 +0000

In mid-June 1940, when international attention was focused on the German invasion of France, Soviet NKVD troops raided border posts in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. State administrations were liquidated and replaced by Soviet cadres, in which 34,250 Latvians, 75,000 Lithuanians and almost 60,000 Estonians were deported or killed. Elections were held with single pro-Soviet candidates listed for many positions, with resulting peoples assemblies immediately requested admission into the USSR, which was granted by the Soviet Union.

they key here is not how enough get in office, or how fast, the key question is whether there is enough.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:37:53 +0000

Is that sort of like the state withering away under Communism, do you suppose? I think we’ve already seen this movie, except we had commissars instead of mullahs. Pity they keep remaking it, since we already know it ends badly.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:51:28 +0000

I almost began this by saying it would be hard to imagine. But I don’t really mean it.
A number of people will publicly pretend that Neda’s father’s statement proves the regime is innocent and we can get on with appeasing them.
I intend to keep a list.

By: Stupid Hippie

Stupid Hippie — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:04:24 +0000

I pray for the people of Iran. I felt the same sick knot in my stomach at Tiannenmen in 1989, when the curtain was pulled back for just a glimpse into the true nature of that evil regime.

In “Gulag Archipelago,” Solzhenitsyn asks why the Russian people did not rise up against the Bolsheviks early when they had a chance and greatly outnumbered them, instead of meekly submitting to the oncoming horrors…were they in part responsible for heir own enslavement? When NKVD agents came in the middle of the night to arrest them , no one fought back and neighbors pretended it never happened. The entire population was terrorized and accepted their fate.

I never thought it could happen here, the mass brainwashing/hypnosis, even though I’ve felt danger approaching for years. Now I am not so sure. Are there some fates worse than death?

I pray for Iran. I pray for us.

It’s rather late and I may be overly dramatic…