Riot in the streets! Iran's Revolution 2.009

[Epinephrine]

Actually Iranians living overseas can vote via absentee ballots, much like in other countries. These absentee ballot voters overwhelming voted for Moussavi.

[ÆNIMA]

Should any outside country step in? (Odd how that mentality probably only comes from Americans)

I say no. Especially now that their Supreme Leader just backed up the elections last week.

If there's going to be a regime change, the Iranians should handle it themselves or ask for help first from any neighbors.

[Ilya]

yes you are correct america should help iran gets its freedom. call it... operation irani freedom.

[Squeezer]

yes you are correct america should help iran gets its freedom. call it... operation irani freedom.

[DoTheFandango]

Shit's going down, everyone stay tuned.

[ffe <TW>]

damn gran you're iranian? me toooooo

BTW, since this is well publicized now in CNN, people will have realized by now that if USA tries to help Iran, the Ayatollah will just use it as an excuse to kill people, saying they were working for their enemies and whatnot. I say just let the revolution take place if it's going to happen.

[Ilya]

just got back from a persian restaurant

revolution or not, they sure do know how to make some great lamb

[gran guerrero]

:headbang: vive iran

[gran guerrero]

http://www.youtube.com/CitizenTube

has a lot of videos of the protests and clashes with police


also

RIP Neda

[Squeezer]

http://www.youtube.com/CitizenTube

has a lot of videos of the protests and clashes with police


also

RIP Neda

yeah that video fucked me up. RIP. There's also the one with the dude that got shot in the groin and another guy bleeds out from a head wound. I need to learn not to click links.

Go green I guess

[Jerome Scuggs]

whatever, nothing changes, why fight it, government is necessary, and those people deserve to die.

[raizin]

whatever, nothing changes, why fight it, government is necessary, and those people deserve to die.

kill them all

vote: IRAN

[Summa]

and those people deserve to die.

huh, didn't know people deserve to die, news to me

[Jerome Scuggs]

look, i know you don't understand - but the government knows what it is doing, that is why it is called government. those protestors are not politicians - they don't know what's going on. they are ignorant radicals, and they haven't even finished school. who are you gonna trust? a politician, or a schoolboy?

it is in the best interest of the people that the regime remain. what do i mean by "best interest of the people"? well, i'm not going to grant you an answer. because i don't have to.

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look, i know you don't understand - but the government knows what it is doing, that is why it is called government. those protestors are not politicians - they don't know what's going on. they are ignorant radicals, and they haven't even finished school. who are you gonna trust? a politician, or a schoolboy?

it is in the best interest of the people that the regime remain. what do i mean by "best interest of the people"? well, i'm not going to grant you an answer. because i don't have to.

Would you say the same for countries such as Romania, when in 1989 overthrew the communist regime and its dictator Nicolae Ceausescu?

Under Ceausescu’s rule the people of Romania had experienced severe food rationing, power cuts and fuel shortages, the abolishment of contraception and abortion, state controlled censorship of the media, visitors and travel restricted, and the 'systematisation' of half of Romania’s villages which involved the elimination of a village and the repositioning of their residents into 'Agrarian-industria’ centres. Totally manipulated and controlled, the Romanian people suffered oppression for 21 years, disciplined and monitored by the 'Securitate'. Ceausescu’s secret police.

The week long revolution was one of Europe’s most bloody and hostile revolutions since World War II. Any acts of aggression or placation by the Government only seemed to fuel and anger the Romanian people, led by Revolutionary leader, Ion Iliescu. On 21 December, Ceausescu made a televised speech to reason with crowds in Bucharest, but it only served to incense the crowd which became violent and riots continued throughout the day between the army and police. The following day, the army joined the demonstrators and by the Christmas Eve, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife had fled Romania, only to be caught and executed by firing squad on Christmas Day.

The people of Iran, as once was said of Iraq, are educated and perhaps they want more freedoms and less restrictions from a government run by a religious council? Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. It is we who need to be taught. Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away with appointing the Shah of which was a puppet dictator to the West that put most of the peoples in Iran into a level of poverty. Ever wonder why the Islamic Revolution happened in the 1st place?

We are the biggest problem in the Middle East. We have through our cruelty and violence created and legitimized the Mahmoud Ahmadinejads and the Osama bin Ladens.

To sit back and not protest against crimes against your own country and its people by your own government is a crime in itself. One does not need a college degree to undertsand that.