One vote — millions of people protesting in the streets of Iran
June 18th, 2009 by Susan Nilon in News, Politics, Sarasota-Manatee
It’s 1 pm in Tehran…in few hours we are marching in the stronghold of Adolf Ahmadinejad….Toop Khoone (Imam Khomeini Sq.) near Tehran Bazar and in the center of government realm…….VICTORY IS NEAR
This is the Facebook posting from Reza Rafiei.
Ahmadinejad leaving Sharif University, while the people he claimed have voted for him chant: “liar…liar”…..
Look at this midget dictator run away like a coward
I’ve been following the protests in Iran through my Facebook account. Amongst the posts about what someone is eating for breakfast and the animals they are collecting for their farm, I am following the passion and bravery of the people in Iran who are demanding that their vote count.
On June 12, 2009, Iran held its 12th presidential election. This president is solely elected by a popular vote of the people. Before the election, it was considered a close race between current President Ahmadinejad and his key opponent, Mir-Hossein Mousavi. But as the polls were begining to close, the election was being called for the current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — in a landslide.
The Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran’s official news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, incumbentMahmoud Ahmadinejad had won the election with 66 percent of the votes cast, and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 33 percent of the votes cast. The European Union and several Western countries expressed concern over alleged irregularities during the vote, and some analysts and journalists from United States and Europe voiced doubts about the authenticity of the results.
Less than 24 hours had passed when the people poured into the streets in protest of a stolen election. In years past, the only news that we received was what the national media covered. Three-minute reports followed by 20 seconds of commentary. But now with the power of social media, I am able to not only connect with the people who are particpating in the protests, I am able to follow minute by minute.
My friend Betsy posts:
They raided college dorms at 4 am, dragged the kids out of bed and beat them, leaving them unconscious and bleeding in the hallways!!! We are talking to a very different regime that has a different perception to “freedom”
Her friend Reza is amongst the protesters in Iran. She writes, “Reza and many others I attended school with in Geneva,, before the revolution had to leave the country at the time of the 1979 revolution.” She follows throughout the day and panics if hours go by without any word. She sends me the message: “One medical student said he and his roommate blocked their door with furniture and hid in the closet when they heard the militia’s motorcycles approaching. He heard the militia breaking down doors, and then screams of anguish as students were dragged from their beds and beaten violently. When he came out after the militia had left, friends and classmates lay unconscious in dorm rooms and hallways, many with chest wounds from being stabbed or bloody faces from blows to their heads, he said.”
People are connecting in such a firestorm that the officals in Iran are considering to close down such forms of communication. But can they stop it? They can’t even beat down the protesters. How can they ignore it?How can we ignore it?
It has been six days since the election. Protestors have been beaten and killed. Reza posts:
Tomorrow, we shall all wear black and mourn the death of young Iranians who innocently gave their lives for the freedom and well being of their nation, and march side by side of Mir Hossein Mousavi….4 pm: Toop Khoone
Listen to the live report of the protesters on terhanbureau.com. It is in Farsi with English subtitles. It will give you an understanding of why people in Iran are no different than the people here in the Unites States. We all want the same thing: a right to equality, a right to be heard, a right to be counted.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
The protests in Iran may or may not be constructive.
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SCANDAL! SCANDAL! SCANDAL!
EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!
George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her.
“In her suit, Margie Schoedinger states that George W. Bush committed sexual crimes against her, organized harassment and moral pressure on her, her family members and close relatives and friends. As Schoedinger said, she was strongly recommended to keep her mouth shut. . . . Furthermore, she alleges that George Bush ordered to show pressure on her to the point, when she commits suicide” (blog of drizzten).
“One of those ‘very leasts’ [was] George Bush’s personal complicity in the death (murder to be precise) of my friend Margie Schoedinger in September of 2003. Determining the exact whereabouts and contacts of [then] president-elect George Bush on September 21 thru 22, 2003, should be entirely lacking in difficulty” (Leola McConnell—Nevada Progressive Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010).
McConnell is correct: Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death.
Bush is a racist hate criminal and hates black people (please feel free to see my “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” blog). (Schoedinger was an African-American woman.)
BEWARE: If the president of the United States hates one—for whatever reasons—he can continuously criminally stalk one to the point that one cannot get away from it, and one ultimately commits suicide in desperation to escape. He can murder people in this way.
Bush is getting away with his murder of Schoedinger—with no sheriff, prosecutor, or court willing to uphold the rule of law.
Bush’s method of murdering Schoedinger cannot exist in a vacuum: he must have murdered other people in the same way.
Bush should confess, come out with the names of all of the people whom he murdered in the disgusting way he murdered Schoedinger, undergo execution, and accordingly find himself at the intersection where he would be free.
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Andrew Wang
(a.k.a. “THE DISSEMINATING MACHINE”)
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993