YOU MAY BREAK THE SKIN, BUT YOU CAN'T KILL THE SOUL
Kahmenei enters the abyss of rubbing obvious injustices deep with tear gas. It will be a Pyrrhic victory, if his personal, nuclear-wanting army does stop public assembly and vocal dissent. No one will believe that they talk for anyone but themselves and those on their payroll. Dialog will become almost impossible, under the weight of neocon carping. The odds will move decidedly in favor of war with the West, yes? (March now, in sympathy, later it will be too late...).
Two notes:
I am sympathetic to the interpretation that the reported explosion at the holy shrine of Kohmenei is a way to cut off another form of legal civil disobedience under law, a way to try to keep Mousavi from taking sanctuary. Saddam's army was smart and so is the puppet dictator Ahmedi-Nejad's. This fight is going on at many levels.
Holding the Qu'ran is not so much a reclaiming of faith, as some commentators would have it. It's as much a practical shield as a symbol, a textual way to try to keep from being beaten, a way to at least try to continue civil disobedience, within the context of the law.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
'Islamic Revolutionary' Dictators Unleash State Power: Riot Gear, Tear Gas, extra-legal police, Mind-sucking political prisons...
