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06/22/09
In a way, the current Iranian theocracy is now being hoist upon their own petard. They are uncomfortable in the spotlight and are lashing out at the West, because that is easier than admitting their own mistakes.
This may be the turning point, but don't believe there won't be more blood running in the streets before this revolution is over, no matter the outcome.
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In her view, the huge youth population and gradual opening of debate have opened up the floodgates and the Guardian Council can't adapt as quickly as necessary to the large amounts of change that the people want.
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Needless to say several of my other friends had plenty to say to him, but even after he'd had his ass handed to him and I'd defriended him, I was still very upset by his comments. I mean, I know this kind of ignorance exists, I see it everyday. I know that kind of hatred and prejudice exists. But to be openly confronted with it is another matter. I mean, does this guy really think that the Iranian people have anything to do with what their government does? That they automatically share the same opinions? Even the most average of bears would realize that the people are being completely OPPRESSED by their government - why else would they be protesting and being killed over there for speaking out? I think what disturbed me most was that this guy obviously hadn't even thought of that at all. He was too busy spewing hatred.
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"I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby."
For a similar principle, there is the publication of Anne Frank's diary. Nobody learned anything new from either case - anyone who cared could see that blacks were being treated as inferior human beings in the supposed Land of the Free and that the Holocaust was a blight on our history from which we had shamefully looked away - but putting a face to these tragedies made them all the more powerful.
I have not watched the video and I don't think I will, because the still image was enough. But I will defend the right of anyone to air them. Remember, the media used the same argument about exploitation and bloodlust to argue against showing the cost in bodies and blood of our strikes on Iraq.
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I'm a very squeamish person. I can't watch people get hurt, I will never, for the life of me, understand the Faces of Death videos.. even most realistic horror movies are too much for me. I watched the video so I could relate on a physical and emotional level to what these people are actually going through. I agree with a commenter above that everyone should watch it.
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It was the first 10 seconds or so that matter, not the blood. She was just so scared. I felt anger/frustration/anxiety before, but now I feel it that much more acutely.
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He knows, all the people in power know, that you can only limit people so much. The question is whether they're crazy enough to invite the revolution.
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I've watched a couple of people die or come very close to it in my job as an EMT (but nothing violent or gruesome thank goodness), and that fading/vacant look in her eyes is not something you can fake. Nor the copious blood that pours from her nose and mouth at the end.
Or are they saying it is a real video of a woman dying, but isn't from the current situation in Iran??
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It continues by saying there are questions surrounding her identity. They discount the validity of the tape by saying that she was first identified as a 16 year old girl. They fail to address the fact that due to a blanket ban of foreign reporting such information is bound to be slowed down. What I don't understand is why that post is still up now that there solid information regarding her identity.
Plus the comments are appalling Lets bombard the site jezebelles.
[news.sky.com]
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"Can anyone prove she actually died? - I've seem more convincing death scenes on CSI
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I guess people find it hard to believe that this is actually happening, to real people, who really die when they get hit by bullets.
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/PSA
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Oh Google ads. I shake my head at you.
06/17/09
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Work continues to idle while I am riveted to this story for yet another day.