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AN OPEN LETTER IN SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE OF IRAN FROM THE WEBLOGGING COMMUNITY

Chuck | 09.07.2003 20:20 | Repression | Social Struggles

Today is the fourth anniversary of the brutal repression of student protests by the mad mullahs of Iran. Many of the internal protests have apparently been called off after clear signs that the mullahs intended to create another Tiananmen-like massacre.

We are not politicians, nor are we generals. We hold no power to dispatch diplomats to negotiate; we can send no troops to defend those who choose to risk their lives in the cause of freedom.

What power we have is in our words, and in our thoughts. And it is that strength which we offer to the people of Iran on this day.

Across the diverse and often contentious world of weblogs, each of us has chosen to put aside our differences and come together today to declare our unanimity on the following simple principles:

- That the people of Iran are allies of free men and women everywhere in the world, and deserve to live under a government of their own choosing, which respects their own personal liberties.

- That the current Iranian regime has failed to create a free and prosperous society, and attempts to mask its own failures by repression and tyranny.
We do not presume to know what is best for the people of Iran; but we are firm in our conviction that the policies of the current government stand in the way of the Iranians' ability to make those choices for themselves.

And so we urge our own governments to turn their attention to Iran. The leaders and diplomats of the world's democracies must be clear in their opposition to the repressive actions of the current Iranian regime, but even more importantly, must be clear in their support for the aspirations of the Iranian people.

And to the people of Iran, we say: You are not alone. We see your demonstrations in the streets; we hear of your newspapers falling to censorship; and we watch with anticipation as you join the community of the Internet in greater and greater numbers. Our hopes are with you in your struggle for freedom. We cannot and will not presume to tell you the correct path to freedom; that is for you to choose. But we look forward to the day when we can welcome your nation into the community of free societies of the world, for we know with deepest certainty that such a day will come.

Chuck
- e-mail: chuck@simmins.org
- Homepage: http://blog.simmins.org

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Instead of Iran read Britain, or Spain, or...

10.07.2003 05:53

Demostrations supressed...
Media lies...
Fundamentalist politicians...
It sounds like Europe today.
If Iran is to join the free countries¿?, don't look this way.
Our European rotating president is called Berlusconi!!
Let's not patronize others.

Mico


Moral relativism of the left

10.07.2003 06:44

Yeah right, we're being patronising, Europe is just as bad as Iran. Blah blah blah. When will the leftist equivocators shut the fuck up?

 http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mdwatch/iran.html
 http://www.peacelink.nu/KVINNER/iran_womanexecutionV.jpg
 http://www.jonbesh-iran.com/Jonbesh/Site/Etelaieha/57_edaam/gfx/Hanging.jpe

Reality check


Price of blood= price a barril of oil ?

11.11.2005 14:10

Dear Chuck,

Your words, tender and just, make me fall in
love with your beautiful mind.

Thank you Dear for letting some light in. I feel
some how repared reading you. Also joyfully
"boozed up" :)) We certainly are many hoping
that your kind of being "crosses" and "multiplies"
more than ever, by this time of deep mistrust
and confusion between peaples of the planet!


MEHRZAD (Irani)