The revolution is far from over

Canada.com ^ | July 11, 2009 | David Warren,

[nuconvert]

Now that all the obituaries have been written for the latest mass-uprising in Iran, it is time to revisit that continuing uprising. I was reading just yesterday a glib BBC report on how the mullahs had learned from the mistakes that cost the Shah his power in 1979. He was too lenient with the demonstrators of the day and let things, like mourning at funerals for the slain, get out of hand.

The mullahs, we learn, have taken care not to repeat his mistakes, and have muffled the demonstrators through much more effective techniques, that maximize terror while minimizing fatalities. And while naturally a certain number of their subjects need to be killed to clinch the reign of terror, the regime has the wit to seize the bodies and prevent public burials, or any kind of family memorials, for the deceased.

Meanwhile, through Internet and e-mail, I've been reading of the latest demonstrations in Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Abadan, Ahwaz, Kerman, Mashhad, Babol, and Sari. In addition to direct Iranian information, still escaping the country in electronic tweets, there is the informal network of old Bush-administration "neo-cons" and such like rogues, closely monitoring feeds from their Persian contacts; and downright begging their successors in the Obama administration to make some noise.

Certainly we may congratulate the mullahs for having muffled the BBC, and the rest of the western media, who, after losing their front row seats in Tehran, have retreated from reporting that they have nothing to report, thus leaving the rebellious people of Iran's towns and cities to be beaten and butchered in decent silence.

[nuconvert]

Very Good, pong

[Recovering_Democrat]

The American media will ignore it, because it reveals Hussein as he really is: a clueless BOOB.

[GeronL]

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