A ‘Tiananmen’ in Tehran?

WedNEWSday - June 17th, 2009

Eyewitness: Iranian militiamen shot 300 rounds during Monday’s protest.  Iran’s Guardian Council offered a partial recount of the presidential vote Tuesday as pressure mounted from the biggest rally since the revolution, in which eight were killed.

An Iranian journalist who witnessed the shooting told the Monitor that, in fact, the gunmen were plain-clothed basiji militia in riot helmets and body armor who fired an estimated 300 bullets from a rooftop – roughly half into the air, and the other half directly into the crowd, over the course of an hour.

“The guy shooting from the roof was very calm, not like he was shooting at people,” said the witness. The ideological militiamen, who operate under the auspices of the Revolutionary Guards, fired as if “they were just trying to empty their guns into the ground, very cool, very relaxed.”

The resulting images of protesters with green armbands carrying away their dead comrades – with looks of horror on their faces and shouts for help on their lips – evoked the prolonged bloody protests that shook Iran before the 1979 revolution.

(continues below)


this video is phenomenal - do not miss…

What is also outrageous here is that the European Union is taking a stronger stance on this than The United States.  The European Commission issued a statement saying the deaths of the protesters are deplorable.  Obama, the so-called leader of the ‘free-world,’ offered much less: 

I am deeply troubled by the violence that I’ve been seeing on television.

This guy can’t be serious?  If what Obama knows of this situation comes only from what he has seen on television, then God help us all.  Men are laying down their lives in the name of freedom and this is all he’s got?  Obviously, the ‘free-world’ has no leader at the present moment.

This from The Christian Science Monitor - June 16th, 2009

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0616/p06s09-wome.html

This from Deutsche Welle - June 16th, 2009

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4331039,00.html?maca=en-en_nr-1893-xml-atom

This from BBC America - June 16th, 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8102163.stm

• Hillary & Obama Join Castro & Chavez in Backing Zelaya WedNEWSday - July 1st, 2009 Why are we backing Zelaya? Obama, Chavez, U.N. unite in support of ousted Honduran president who defied his nation's constitution, Congress...  This from FOX News - June 30th, 2009 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/30/obamas-support-ousted-honduran-leader-accused-breaking-law-stirs-concerns/?test=latestnews   Deposed Honduran president finds a platform at the UN The US condemned the coup......
• 'D-Day' June 6th, 1944 - Reagan Tells the Story Special Edition - Saturday, June 6th, 2009 Soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers......
• Buchanan on Obama: The Anti-American President Sunday Paper - June 14th, 2009 I am glad to see that I am not alone when I speak of America's Anti-American President.  I have taken some heat for it from the ignorant and naive, but those Americans who know their history, and are not hypocrites (like those in the......
• ABC to Propagate the $1.6 Trillion One-Sided Universal Healthcare Lies WedNEWSday - June 24th, 2009  Last week ABC announced plans to air an 'Obamacare' special; Wednesday, June 24th.  Basically it will be a one-sided infomercial for the Neo-Marxist healthcare reform plan, as the voice of fiscally responsible conservatives will be silenced. The network announced Monday that during its special next......
• Christian Sodomized & Stabbed to Death for Refusing Islam Sunday Paper - June 14th, 2009  The Worst Christian Persecution in the World A young Christian man was raped and brutally murdered in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam, and police investigators are refusing to act on the case, the victim's brother and reverend told FOXNews.com. Pakistani police reportedly......

• Saving Money at Fuddruckers: What's Too Frugal? This past weekend my wife and I organized a bit of a date night. We saw No Country For Old Men. (Quick thought on it: Weird ending, without spoiling anything, it seemed to "yada yada" over what should have been the best part of the movie.) We also went to......
• 50+ Personal Finance, Investing, And Money Tweeps Worth Following Miranda writes for Bankling, a personal finance portal, which contains both a blog, and a tools section that contains resources like the best bank CD rates, the best savings account rates, online mortgage rate calculators, and more. These days, it's all about Twitter and the tweeple there. While many (including......
• Why Learning Organisations Make Horse Sense Flogging a dead horse is a commonly used idiom here in the UK. If someone is trying to convince someone else to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, we say they're flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in......
• online computer help I regularly get asked whether its worth repair an old computer or business a new one. I regularly cannot give a directly answer; reason being is because it’s a very open question. I would need to recognize what’s incorrect with the PC and how old it is before giving an......
• IP PBX - A Ground Breaking Method of Communicating at Cheap Rates Many may wonder what actually are these IP PBX solutions? Actually these are the solutions that provide the option to the people to transfer their data, vital information, videos and even conduct audio sessions over the unified IP network. This method of transferring of data and other information can......