Saturday, June 20, 2009
The Toll of Uprising
The difference between the riots now in Iran and the ones thirty years ago is the exchange of "Shah" for "Khomeni". They want him dead. The death toll today rose at least 40, bringing the minimum toll to 52 as far as I can tell. The reports go as high as 200 but I can not confirm them.
How The West Lost The Revolution
The leaders of Iran who support Ahmadinejad and the Ayatolla have won. The reason I place the loss on the West, the nations who have leaders who represent Democracy and freedom in the world, is because they did not do enough to put the message I urged here forward in the ears of all Iranians. They did not show the Iranian people the support they needed to create a reform that would be truly different from the regime they have now. The world failed when a suicide bomber blew up the tomb of the first Ayatolla of Iran.
The protests would be oppressed and the people of the world knew this. The world knows what oppressive nations do when an internal challenge to their authority arises: they oppress even further. History shows this pattern every time.
The response can be violence, as is now occuring in Iran with this suicide bombing. When violence is used to overthrow an oppressive regime what often replaces it is an equally oppressive government. Look at the past year of coups and revolutions in Africa and Southeast Asia. Peaceful, persistent voicing of views creates a real change. The violence of the mutinees, and the militarization of the coups has led to equally oppressive regimes when they succeed and worse regimes when they fail. The peaceful declaration of a new government has created a stable Kosovo. The violence in this act of cowardice in Iran, if it becomes a pattern, will lead to an oppressive regime if it succeeds. Should this revolution now fail, the regime in place will be continuously oppressive against its people to ensure this revolution does not occur again.
Where did the West fail? It started with the leader of the free world, the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, declaring that we should not "meddle" in Iran. This was a statement amounting to saying we do not care what occurs in Iran. By the time the U.S. responded it was three days into the protests and too late for the message to be heard. I am certain voices in Europe were made, but here in the U.S. they were not heard. No voice is as powerful as that of the President of the United States. When he speaks, the world always listens. Whether the world agrees or not, is up to them; but they always listen.
For him to say we don't want to stand up for the freedom of Iranians to vote, to speak, to live their lives we have failed. I voiced myself but my leaders did not. I am not the President yet, but I know he has failed me.
We did not tell Iran to allow the freedom to be placed with the people. We did not tell the people to protest freely as their right, but peacefully. We did say we don't care. The wrong message at the right time. For Persia's people to not have the blessings of freedom urged by the rest of the world we have failed in bringing one of the oldest nations on earth to the modern free age of man.
However I will not give up. I will condemn the acts of violence by all sides and the silencing of voices wherever they occur in Iran. Freedom must be given and peace will be what is returned.
The protests would be oppressed and the people of the world knew this. The world knows what oppressive nations do when an internal challenge to their authority arises: they oppress even further. History shows this pattern every time.
The response can be violence, as is now occuring in Iran with this suicide bombing. When violence is used to overthrow an oppressive regime what often replaces it is an equally oppressive government. Look at the past year of coups and revolutions in Africa and Southeast Asia. Peaceful, persistent voicing of views creates a real change. The violence of the mutinees, and the militarization of the coups has led to equally oppressive regimes when they succeed and worse regimes when they fail. The peaceful declaration of a new government has created a stable Kosovo. The violence in this act of cowardice in Iran, if it becomes a pattern, will lead to an oppressive regime if it succeeds. Should this revolution now fail, the regime in place will be continuously oppressive against its people to ensure this revolution does not occur again.
Where did the West fail? It started with the leader of the free world, the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, declaring that we should not "meddle" in Iran. This was a statement amounting to saying we do not care what occurs in Iran. By the time the U.S. responded it was three days into the protests and too late for the message to be heard. I am certain voices in Europe were made, but here in the U.S. they were not heard. No voice is as powerful as that of the President of the United States. When he speaks, the world always listens. Whether the world agrees or not, is up to them; but they always listen.
For him to say we don't want to stand up for the freedom of Iranians to vote, to speak, to live their lives we have failed. I voiced myself but my leaders did not. I am not the President yet, but I know he has failed me.
We did not tell Iran to allow the freedom to be placed with the people. We did not tell the people to protest freely as their right, but peacefully. We did say we don't care. The wrong message at the right time. For Persia's people to not have the blessings of freedom urged by the rest of the world we have failed in bringing one of the oldest nations on earth to the modern free age of man.
However I will not give up. I will condemn the acts of violence by all sides and the silencing of voices wherever they occur in Iran. Freedom must be given and peace will be what is returned.
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