June 22, 2009
A Message from Iran
By Robert Ringer
It's hard to believe that just thirty years ago Iranians revolted against the Shah, and an Islamic republic was born. Millions of Westernized Iranians fled the country, with a million of them settling in Los Angeles alone.
And a large percentage of the remaining population, particularly the young, has never quite taken a shine to the Islamic police-state lifestyle. Isn't it amazing that no matter how repressed a people may be and for how long a period of time, they still yearn for freedom?
Of course, the last Iranian revolution was led, or at least inspired, by that guy who didn't smile a whole lot when Mike Wallace asked him what he thought about Anwar Sadat saying he was a lunatic. Poof! Just like that, the Shah was gone and Islamic fascists rushed in to fill the power vacuum.
Alvin Toffler describes the result of such revolutions in The Third Wave:
Time and again during the past three hundred years, in one country after another, rebels and reformers have attempted to storm the walls of power, to build a new society based on social justice and political equality. Temporarily, such movements have seized the emotions of millions with promises of freedom. Revolutionists have even managed, now and then, to topple a regime. Yet each time the ultimate outcome was the same. Each time the rebels recreated, under their own flag, a similar structure of sub-elites, elites, and super elites.
In other words, nothing much changes for the masses, no matter who controls the reins of power. However, by creating the illusion of freedom, so-called democratic governments are more likely to gain the support of their subjects. Give the masses enough sporting events, reality TV, and credit-card-created vacations and they can be enticed into remaining quite docile.
What's especially attractive about the democratic form of rule from the viewpoint of, say, a president is that it decreases the chances of his ending up doing the Il Duce Exit ... you know - shot, kicked, stoned, and hung upside down by his toes. Now that's what you call a career-ending indignity.
No one knows how the current revolution in Iran will turn out, but regardless of what happens, it's inspiring to see people defying the government. Human beings have freedom running through their veins. Even progressives have it. The only catch is that they don't want others to be free.
As I watch the freedom-hungry Iranians protesting in the streets, I wonder to myself if those Americans who still test negative for Kool-Aid feel a tinge of motivation to take action. Does it inspire them at all to see people halfway around the globe trying to overthrow a fascist regime for the second time in thirty years?
Attention Americans: Remember when your brothers and sisters rose up, behind bodacious Boris Yeltzin, and overwhelmed the seventy-year-old Soviet Union dictatorship? And remember how, shortly after that, your brothers and sisters rose up and tore down the Berlin Wall?
So long as a government employs the Machiavelli Jackboot Philosophy of Rule, it's tough for people to try to start a revolution. Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and, of course, the King of Glitz, Saddam, were all tops at wielding this kind of power. I tell you, that's a cast of characters who knew how to make would-be revolutionaries shake in their sandals at the thought of, say, being disemboweled.
If today's "Supreme Leader," Ali Khamenei, and his sidekick, Mahmoud the Madman, don't crack down quickly - with overwhelming force - the new Iranian revolution could get out of hand. But if they employ the Machiavelli Jackboot Philosophy of Rule, it could end like Tiananmen Square.
Either way, Americans should take note. A lot of non-Kool-Aid drinkers must know by now that a fascist dictatorship is brewing in Washington. In fact, it's been in the making for more than 100 years. And now that the reincarnation of Saul Alinsky has pressed the progressive accelerator to the floor in the Oval Office, the response has been a few scattered "tea parties" - planned in advance, yet.
As one would expect, the progressives snicker at such feeble attempts at protest, and White House staffers swear that the Master of Misdirection hasn't even noticed them. And maybe he hasn't. After all, he's been busy nationalizing banks and automakers, preparing to abolish private health care, and setting in motion green laws to fight non-existent global warming and take control of virtually every aspect of your life.
There is only one thing that will get the attention of the current rulers in Washington - millions of people taking to the streets, protesting twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, nationwide. Sorry, but you don't put revolutions on pause just to watch the NBA finals or spend a weekend at the beach. No violence necessary - just loud, nonstop protesting.
And the protesting has to happen soon - or it will be too late. Once ACORN takes full control, U.S. elections will be about as fair as the recent presidential election in Iran. And the resulting police state should be about as much fun as the one Iranians are risking their lives to get rid of.
Let's be honest: There's not a whole lot of difference between a progressive fascist and an Islamic fascist. If it walks like a fascist and talks like a fascist - you know what mean ... I hope.
Right now, every non-Kool-Aid drinker in America should be shouting: "Don't start the (peaceful) revolution without me!" Be there.
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