[Pan_Yans Wife]

What's fascinating, from a pampered westerner's point of view, is that everything changed so rapidly.

I suppose when constitutionalists here in the US remind us to watch and protect our freedoms, they see the incrimental damage.

What happened in Iran is a travesty.

[Eala]

What's fascinating, from a pampered westerner's point of view, is that everything changed so rapidly.
I suppose when constitutionalists here in the US remind us to watch and protect our freedoms, they see the incrimental damage.

It seemed to change so rapidly only because the West (and the press) wasn't really paying much attention. My wife recalls the protests and demonstrations in Tehran six years earlier, and even two years earlier I saw it myself on an American college campus -- though at the time to me it only looked like an echo of the Vietnam protests.

A book by the (former? exiled) Anglican Bishop of Iran notes precursors as far back as 1961.

But things do seem to move slow, until you reach the tipping point. And we haven't reached ours -- yet.