I happen to be from that part of America that didn’t know about all the Tom Foolery that was engaged in by my nation and the Shaw of Iran. I am however very well aware of when our embassy was seized, and as the MSM at the time called it; “America held Hostage.”
I also remember the “Coward in Chiefs” utter failure as a leader in responding to the threat. I remember gross inflation, and the government telling us that unemployment was only six percent, when in fact it was a lot closer to twenty…
Now, an incident occurred in the Denver area. Some Iranian expatriates were assaulted, and treated pretty badly. One of the people that encouraged and approved of what had happened screamed about the “Damned Muslims…” Want to know the really sad part about this? They were Iranian refugees that were Christians that had escaped from Iran. From “Arab Muslim” persecution according to Rani. These were not illegal immigrants, not at all.
The United States of America is a nation built upon beliefs and people. The beliefs are the same, and the peoples are many. We come from Ireland, and Scotland, England and Africa, China and Viet Nam, and anywhere else you could choose to look.
Now, while even Pravda has pointed out where America is heading, the people of Iran are rising up.
How times change…
Conservative Libertarian Outpost 
June 20, 2009 at 07:55
Related, from the Patriot Post
The Iranian ‘Election’
Events in Iran over the last week have been interesting, to put it mildly. Following a patently rigged presidential election on June 12 in which incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed to have won with 63 percent of the vote, Iran’s Supreme Leader announced Ahmadinejad’s victory before all the votes could possibly have been counted. Supporters of Ahmadinejad’s only serious rival, former Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi, promptly staged street riots and protests that led to varying degrees of violence over the ensuing week when Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Basij militia met the protesters with clubs, tear gas and guns. Photos of beaten and bloody Iranians have made it into the international media despite the regime’s attempt at a news blackout, and at least 20 people are believed to have been killed by the security forces.
Lost in all the media speculation about a rigged election and the possibility of a recount is the fact that Mousavi is not the Iranian Martin Luther King Jr., waiting to lead the Iranian people into a broad upland of democracy, women’s rights and responsible behavior as part of the community of nations. No one is allowed to run for high office in Iran without first being approved by the Council of Guardians. The Council learned its lesson in 1997, when Mohammad Khatami was elected on a platform of liberal reforms — and then attempted to implement them, much to the hardliners’ horror. If Mousavi was not palatable to the hardliners who control the election process, his name could never have appeared on the ballot. Furthermore, even if elected Mousavi could at most attempt incremental social reforms. With real power remaining in the office of the Supreme Leader, a President Mousavi could not have reformed Iran itself.
Finally, as noted by Robert Kagan this week in The Washington Post, an Obama administration hoping for talks and meaningful negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program before the end of the year is caught in a difficult spot. Supporting Mousavi and his followers will irritate the incumbent regime and retard any negotiating schedule. But appearing not to support Mousavi openly and the veneer of democratic reform that surrounds him — wrongly, but surrounds him nonetheless — risks abdicating the United States’ role as the champion of democracy. As we said — an interesting week.
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June 20, 2009 at 12:04
Related post from No Compromise blog;
http://nocompromisemedia.com/2009/06/19/meet-the-true-father-of-the-islamic-revolution-jimmy-carter/comment-page-1/#comment-4724
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June 20, 2009 at 20:21
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