Posted on 12/25/2009 7:15:51 PM PST by Steelfish
December 26, 2009 Iranian Student Protester Neda Soltan Is Times Person of the Year
Neda Soltan did not vote in her country's election, but was appalled by the rigging of the result. Since she was shot in a democracy protest, her face has become an opposition symbol
Neda Soltan was not political. She did not vote in the Iranian presidential election on June 12. The young student was appalled, however, by the way that the regime shamelessly rigged the result and reinstalled Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ignoring the pleas of her family, she went with her music teacher eight days later to join a huge opposition demonstration in Tehran.
“Even if a bullet goes through my heart it’s not important,” she told Caspian Makan, her fiancé. “What we’re fighting for is more important. When it comes to taking our stolen rights back we should not hesitate. Everyone is responsible. Each person leaves a footprint in this world.”
Ms Soltan, 26, had no idea just how big a footprint she would leave. Hours after leaving home, she was indeed shot, by a government militiaman, as she and other demonstrators chanted: “Death to the dictator.”
Arash Hejazi, a doctor standing near by, remembers her looking down in surprise as blood gushed from her chest. She collapsed. More blood spewed from her mouth. As she lay dying on the pavement, her life ebbing out of her, “I felt she was trying to ask a question. Why?” said Dr Hejazi, who tried to save her life.
Why had an election that generated so much excitement ended with a government that claims to champion the highest moral values, the finest Islamic principles, butchering its own youth?
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Actually, makes a lot more sense if this was the London "Time"
Times got something right here. Neda payed the full price for freedom. Thanks for the ping!
England still has a Free Press, unlike PravdABDNC.
Pray for 2010
placemark
No, its not TIME magazine’s award. It’s the London Times!
what does everyone think?
Obama Under Foreign Influence?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cdjHowKHvI
are you guessing or you know this for a fact?
Why would obama need to go to Hawaii for a counterfeit when he has at his disposal the best and brightest crooks in the US?
I would think he and his goons would be breaking into the records and changing things around more than anything else.
Next time I do sarcasm I will put this: ;)
I really thought you knew something and I missed the post. I didn’t want to miss anything.
I don’t put anything past this criminal. If Obama got caught asking around, he would say it was a coincidence.
Time will probably be advertising for Security Experts in the next few hours.
Thanks - almost thought it was too good to be true...
An excellent choice.
(Not TIME magazine. Not in a hundred years.)
Thank you devolve. Still catching up..
[We have an accessory to a crime against humanity.]
True that, and good graphic!
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