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Posted on 02/09/2010 10:23:38 AM PST by Big Bureaucracy
Punch? The Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised to punch the West during the Thursday’s anniversary of the Islamic revolution. I hate to disappoint all the conspiracy theorists but it is not likely that Iran will strike somebody with a bomb. Iranian regime wants to punch us by showing they have no opposition. And they will do it with a parade.......... Growing up in the communist Eastern Europe I know a thing or two about parades and I even marched in many of those. There are few techniques that make a parade of people look especially great. The most important is the number of the participants. Every dictator needs a crowd big enough to march in front of his waving hand for at least 3-4 hours. The uninterrupted TV coverage shall consist of showing dense crowd of healthy looking neat dressed folks waving back at the leader. The size of the crowd does matter. If the Iranian leadership can pull few hours of people marching in their support they will consider it a success, but not yet a punch.
Uniformity is another favorite technique used by totalitarian parade organizers. If all the people wear a shirt of the same color it looks like the individuals become one, they become a group. It may be achieved by people carrying the same sign, or waving a red rose, or chanting the same slogan, or marching in feet. Dictators like to see the crowd to appear unified in their support for the regime.
This is why the single most horrifying threat for the Iranian regime today is if on Thursday somebody shows at the parade wearing green. Officially the marching crowd in Iran should wear black or gray. Leaders of opposition are urging folks to protest peacefully by showing up in green.............
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Sounds like it might be a target rich environment!
I love a parade. How gay.
Yawn!
When are we going to stop letting these regimes rattle us?
It’s long past time to give them a real beat down. However, I don’t believe the Liar in Chief has the guts to do so.
It would be cute if people showed up in official colors, but wearing green underwear, and “mooned” the reviewing stand as they went by...
That’s the punch? A parade? Sounds like something Obama will want to do in the future.
They are just losers that like to show off. Like Saddam. He bragged about WMD to the point where we had to take care of him. Bunch of lairs.
“...or chanting the same slogan, or marching in feet.”
Marching on hands is much more impressive.
This one is very creative! I am afraid it is not that easy to do that in Iran. Their ‘Moons” will be taken care off very quickly.
I know this is true! Thank you for those picks!
I meant in sync - forgive my English - I am not a native speaker.
“If all the people wear a shirt of the same color it looks like the individuals become one, they become a group.”
You will be assimilated! Resistance is futile!
I’m not either. Being born in Atlanta Georgia english is my second language. Also being a smart@$$ just comes natural. Peace
I think this is an interesting idea, but I certainly would NOT term the people who've been discussing WHAT DOES IRAN MEAN BY A STUNNING PUNCH to be conspiracy nuts -- I totally disagree with that.
Having a big parade as their big “punch” would make them look like idiots. My bet is they will test their first nuke.
I just hope that you give too much credit to those clowns and they are not that close to nukes.
Which Confederate officer march his troops in and out of cover, in a neverending circle, to give McClellan the impression that the army was huge?
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