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2009-12-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

New Iran clashes as govt threatens "no mercy"

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 At some point the people will begin to realize that if the government arrests everyone, who will run the country? How would the government feed all those people in prison? Who would drive the busses, repair the wires, fix broken water mains if they are all in jail?

Then the realization sinks in that the government can't really arrest them all, nor can the government kill them all. At that point, the people win and the government must let go.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-12-09 01:50|| 2009-12-09 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Then the realization sinks in that the government can't really arrest them all, nor can the government kill them all. At that point, the people win and the government must let go.

A similar assessment was voiced in the 1930's 40's in Europe.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-09 01:57|| 2009-12-09 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Call me uncharitable, but I do hope children of some Iranian nuke scientist will participate in these riots and get badly hurt.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-12-09 04:28|| 2009-12-09 04:28|| Front Page Top

#4 We need Fox to begin carrying footage of the anti-government protestors chanting

Obama, Obama: Ya Ba Ona Yi, Ya Ba Ma

("Obama, Obama: You're either with them or with us").

Posted by lord garth 2009-12-09 06:24|| 2009-12-09 06:24|| Front Page Top

#5 My dear Lord Garth, the Obamanation has made his choice clear.....he's with THEM!

His only discomfort is that he can't figure out how to invoke similar policies here.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2009-12-09 07:28|| 2009-12-09 07:28|| Front Page Top

#6 crosspatch, the Gandhi/people power thesis only holds if the government in question is capable of cringing at an Amritsar. The Iranian regime has repeatedly shown that it is unfazed by repeated Amritsars. The people en masse will always retreat with the threat of that "whiff of grapeshot". If there's a vigorous and nasty regime in power, it only matters if there's a ruthless and vicious conspiracy willing to use temporary popularity to hide Mao-like in the crowd & ambush the killers.

Then, most likely, you just exchange one brutal gang of killers for another.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-12-09 08:42|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-12-09 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Where's Charlie Wilson when you need him?

Posted by regular joe 2009-12-09 15:23|| 2009-12-09 15:23|| Front Page Top

#8 ION WMF > IRONIC! EMBOLDENED IRAQ NOW THREATENS IRAN WITH "STRONG RESPONSE"[stern warning by Baghdad agz Iran/Tehran oer Iran's construc of NUCFACS near the Iraq borders].

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