Demonstration and Camaraderie

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-protests5-2009nov05,0,2031874.story?track=rss


I try not to comment on anything I have not researched well enough to speak on with authority, but I feel obligated in this instance to state my support. I don't think it's a stretch to say the key to liberty in Iran is not CIA operations, American installed puppet regimes, or cruise missiles, but the uprising of its own intelligent, courageous citizens. There is an enormous generation of youth surging forth in Iran, and it speaks with one voice into the face of oppression, arrogance, and theocratic despotism. There is a conscience in the organism of Iran, there always has been, and in the wake of increasingly blatant atrocities and insanities, that conscience has arisen to the forefront of the organism's mind, where it is now battling the homunculi of archaic brutality and hostility to reason.

To my brothers and sisters risking their lives in the fight against tyranny, in the face of ignorant hatred, under the bludgeons of masked men and the clouds of tear gas, in the prisons of obvious primates, under sentences of death and unwarranted confinement, I can only state my passionate support and awed inspiration, though my words can only ring empty in the presence of those courageous enough to put their lives and bodies on the streets.

This is one American who is with you, not for America's sake, not in the hopes that you will be like the West, but in the hope that you will be yourselves, freely, without fetters or fears. We have much to learn from you, and I look forward to a day when we can exchange ideas without a climate of suspicion, resentment, or fear.