Brutality in Iran and the World Eats Its Dinner

The Provocateur ^ | 06/26/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

In the movie Hotel Rwanda, there is this famous exchange.

Paul Rusesabagina: I am glad that you have shot this footage and that the world will see it. It is the only way we have a chance that people might intervene.

Jack: Yeah and if no one intervenes, is it still a good thing to show?

Paul Rusesabagina: How can they not intervene when they witness such atrocities?

Jack: I think if people see this footage they'll say, "oh my God that's horrible," and then go on eating their dinners.

[my small voice]

Sad, but true.

[skr]

Some of us are praying for the oppressed.

[Citizen Soldier]

Seems all the “jouralists” are at a luau eating poi

[SERKIT]

Don't think for one moment that Mousavi or his supporters are pro-American. They may be getting the hint that internally, the “Supreme Leader” thing needs to go away, but replacing one thug with another is a shoulder-shrug to me - and yes, I'll eat my dinner. Wasn't Mousavi involved in attacks on Americans (in Beirut) and support of anti-American activities? If a leader arises that is anti-mullah, gains support of the young people, and wishes to normalize with the west - if they survive the civil war - it may be OK. They need to do it and we could help, but that's not the current picture with Mousavi IMHO.

[Chances Are]

Those are good points, but I'm discerning something a little different....

While Mousavi is undoubtedly using the crowds and the cause for his own purposes, there is at least another element in there that is plainly using him!

These “protests” or “debates” or whatever you want to call them, have been going on for some time now, far too long to be angry about “election irregularities”.

While Mousavi undoubtedly has his supporters, it is becoming all too evident that there is a smoldering anger that has been there just below the surface for some time. Right now, it's mostly kids out there, which in the overall scheme of things is unsustainable, but the kids do this first and with such vigor primarily because the are young. That's the nature of impetuous and imperious youth.

News stories, such as they are coming from that tortured land, have told of parents’ increasing “concern” about their kids in the streets, as well they should be concerned.

But as each new day brings new levels of barbarism and the blood of those young sons and daughters flowing in the streets, that degree of “concern” is being replaced by degrees of anger, and the anger felt by older people - parents - over the loss of children is an emotion not easily forgotten, nor dismissed.

The current regime may succeed in clamping down the existing situation, but only at the cost of a future that, for the ruling class, is very fraught with peril.

Is Ahwannajihad just trying to hold on to the reins long enough to smoke Tel Aviv? Maybe, but there are a lot of forces at work beneath the surface, and in the days, months, years ahead the dynamic may well shift on a dime, and when that happens, it will be far uglier than what we're witnessing now.

CA....