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A Mousavi supporter holds a toy gun in his hand to intimidate police and militia
ap ^ | 6/22/09 | ap

Posted on 06/21/2009 6:02:33 PM PDT by Flavius

TEHRAN, IRAN - A Mousavi supporter holds a toy gun in his hand to intimidate police and militia during a demonstration on June 20, 2009 in Tehran, Iran.

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KEYWORDS: 2nd; iran; mousavi; toyguns
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To: Tainan
If the man's not dead already, he will probably be arrested, beaten, tortured and executed. (And he knows this.)

But he's fighting for freedom. Tactics are a separate discussion.

He's not at home hiding under his bed, like most men will do at such times.

61 posted on 06/21/2009 7:54:04 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

There is no central Iranian knowledge base among civilians about “How to fight a dictatorship and win.”

It’s all ad-hoc, block by block, across many cities. On every street, something else is being tried. Hopefully, they are ambushing police cars in well-laid traps, and stealing their weapons.

But the point is that people are resisting, by many methods. If nothing else, this guy is “spreading disinformation” about “armed resistors” appearing, and is sowing confusion and fear among the police.


62 posted on 06/21/2009 7:56:32 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee
TM, IMO Persia does not need martyrs...it needs organized resistance. See my post #59 in response to Eakers comment to me.
Yes, a brave man. But it takes more than bravery to combat the system there. You are probably correct in your vetting of him. I'd venture the same just based on the picture.
Prayers and Fortune to them.
63 posted on 06/21/2009 7:56:41 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: Hazwaste; basil; dbwz
A visual aid to demonstrate why we must never and will never be disarmed.

Very well stated.


64 posted on 06/21/2009 7:57:24 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

A kitchen knife? A hoe? A large wrench? My car? SOMETHING.
___________________________________________________________

I’m with you on that count, but it makes me wonder...just how restrictive & repressive must that regime have been, that no Bows/arrows, or even slingshots are allowed?

The evil of that kind of tyranny is right out in front now.


65 posted on 06/21/2009 8:00:06 PM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: Tainan
“It needs organized resistance.”

YES!!!!!!!! But that DOES NOT EXIST YET.

What this man is doing is BUYING TIME. If the street demos are quashed, it's game over, maybe for many more years.

This doctor/engineer type is buying time, very possibly with his life, while the “next generation fighters” are hopefully filling molotovs and planning police car traps.

But somebody has to keep it going on on the streets until your “organized resistance” can begin to form. It can't come from nowhere, and it will take time.

These hapless heros are keeping the torch burning until that time.

66 posted on 06/21/2009 8:00:24 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Flavius

jeez! brave man.


67 posted on 06/21/2009 8:03:16 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: Travis McGee
These hapless heros are keeping the torch burning until that time.

I can't help but think that Almighty God is allowing this tragedy to be seen & heard as a GIFT to all Freedom-loving people, as to how precious is that Freedom...

Let all take notice and ponder!! Even those that would dominate & tyrannize us!! Count the cost, tyrants!!!
68 posted on 06/21/2009 8:05:16 PM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: HotLead61

Buy an entrenching tool.

Sharpen the shovel blade.


69 posted on 06/21/2009 8:06:42 PM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: Travis McGee
But he's fighting for freedom. Tactics are a separate discussion.

Yesterday on Twitter, when the Basiji were marking doors of Iranians to raid later. I was impressed with the Czech's who were advising tactics-tear down street signs, and house numbers. Substances that would remove the marks from the doors, methods to take down the Basiji's motorbikes.

I've read many TEOTWAWKI books where people are trying to survive with improvised weapons, but under the stress that these people on Twitter were actually in a real life & death situation, and not just characters in a book, I was totally useless. Most of the strategies in my pea brain involve the 2nd amendment, and those Poor Souls on the streets of Tehran, and other Iranian cities don't have that.

I pray their efforts and shed blood are not in vain.

70 posted on 06/21/2009 8:10:56 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? JKR)
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To: Bobalu
Yes, and even cheap, stamped metal automatic weapons would be enough...remember the WW2 Sten Gun?

The more untraceable, the better. Have the weapons smuggled in by menstruating lesbians with an attitude!

71 posted on 06/21/2009 8:15:13 PM PDT by Free State Four
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To: Bobalu
I know there are pdf blueprints for that on line
72 posted on 06/21/2009 8:15:52 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: South40
But carrying a toy gun in is not going to intimidate anyone.

Would you have known it was a toy gun if the Ass Press hadn't mentioned it? From a distance, it does look like a real gun, which is why the guy is effective at holding off the police.

73 posted on 06/21/2009 8:18:22 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
If he had no knowledge of guns and held it like a toy yes, I would know.

What's with the large font? I see fine.

74 posted on 06/21/2009 8:20:01 PM PDT by South40 (Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. ~Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: Tainan
Darwin Award candidate.

One thing a rebellion against a tyrant needs to succeed is enough people who aren't afraid.

Perhaps this guy's intent is to inspire others not to be afraid, even while risking his own safety to do it.

If true, a Darwin Award is the last award I'd give this guy.

75 posted on 06/21/2009 9:06:49 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Travis McGee
VDH is reading your comments.
76 posted on 06/22/2009 5:28:37 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Flavius

Talk about jumping in the shark infested waters! Somebody help that brave man! He’s trying to get his country back!


77 posted on 06/22/2009 7:56:33 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Travis McGee

“I’d love to see the CIA drop boxes of weapons all over Teheran. “

Hell, Obama, the Muslim, refuses to even give a word of support! He is all for the Muslim kooks and their murdering ways.


78 posted on 06/22/2009 7:57:40 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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