At the Boston Massacre, an unlikely figure emerged as one of the heros, a man of black or Indian parentage named Crispus Attucks. In Iran, women have played a key role in the protests and protesters have rallied around a female martyr named Neda Soltan, 26. Just as blacks in the United States were fighting from a position of slavery and discrimination, Iranian women have been throwing off of restrictions of the harsh Islamic regime and taken to the street. One such courageous young person was filmed as she died after being shot by Iranian security. The video is making it through the blackout curtain established by the Iranian government.
The video is difficult to watch as a woman named Neda is seen dying on the street shortly after she was shot.
Another amateur video captured showed of Neda and her father attending Neda minutes before at the protest, which had been peaceful. Minutes later she is lying on the street gasping for life. Appropriately, Neda means “calling.”
Tributes have been posted on Youtube to Neda:
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Nice try, troll boy.
You do know the more you say, the less credible you become. And I don’t have to turn your arguments against you. You’re doing just fine on your own, Mr. Bad Logic. Does your mom let you out of the house with that brain?
Buddha,
Oh, but you are so simple my psuedo-Siddhartha friend.
Obama should NOT interfere. However, he should’ve from the start shown some compassionate support to the Iranian protesters. His comments on CNBC on Thursday were insulting and insensitive and shows he only cares to be compassionate when trying to transpose guilt on the American public in order to manipulate and promote his progressive adgenda.
The Iranian theocracy was blaming America anyway. The Friday “prayer” service was NOTHING more than an anti-American rally. But that is NOT playing with the protesters. The Iranian theocracy’s continued blame on America has done NOTHING to quell the protesters. The protest have only intensified in Iran and abroad.
All the compassionate Obama, the leader of the free world has to do is let the Iranian people know that America stands with them.
His fiegned show of support is MUCH TOO late and everybody knows that he was only pressured into it.
This revolution is NOT going to be stopped. It has gone on too long and despite our president’s silence has only gained support. If Obama had bdeen smart he woul’ve thrown a friendly statement Mousavi’s way, seeinjg that he might be dealing with him in the future. But Mousavi was even insulted by what Obama siad about there being NO difference betweenn Achedenijad or Mousavi.
Obama has only guaranteed a hostile regime NO matter who wins by showing an utter lack of compassion, support and respect for the revolutionaries.
Do NOT try to turn my argument around. I NEVER said Obama should meddle. Only that from the begining he should have made clear were his loyalties lie and that is with lberty, freedom and democracy.
All ther progressive ideologies that were drummed into his head in the college dorm rooms worked much better on paper than they do in action.
You accuse me of an adgenda? If you read you will see I’m an equal opportunity offender. I NEVER once showed my partisianship unlike yourself.
This isn’t about Republicans or the messess they’ve made around the globe. This is about the here and now and the message the leader of the free world needs to send to the world.
You would do good to lose the tag of Buddha because it is terribly misleading once you expose yourself with your psuedo-intellectual comments
So by that logic, being with the Iranians who want their freedom is equivalent to being anti-Obama because he’s not interfering with a third country’s election like the Republican’s want (GOP – The Perpetual War Party) would by providing fodder for the BAD GUYS IN IRAN to blame US for a problem they created by being theocratic fascists.
My, but you are a simple creature.
You do not have to argue and engage. This is America and we all have the right to free speech one of the things the Iranians are now dying for.
I am with these people. Even though their government is trying to oppress internet access, something that all of us on this site obviously are fond of, the Iranians are still getting out the images and messages of this governmental terrorism for the world to see.
Yes, Obama NEEDS to be called out by EVERY AMERICAN who believes in freedom and liberty regardless of their part affiliations and inclinations. It took pressure from HIS own party to finally force his White House to issue a statement.
The world cries for the leader of the free world to speak!! Mousavi issued a statement essentially saying the things I said. The people of Iran BEG for our great presidents support. The woman who died and all other who have shed blood in this fight DESERVE Obama to come out on their behalf and show even the minimum amount of support!! The world NEEDS the voice of OUR president NOT the voice of Sarkozy. What kind of example is being shown to all the fighters of democracy when OUR president sits silent and dismisses the protests?
Sicilian,
I’m not going to argue with you about this, and hope no-one else will engage you. This is not the time and place to discuss our views on Obama, this is the time and place to pay homage to a woman who died marching for what she believed in.
I know a real person died and that is my point. These are real people fight and dying for what MOST of us take for granted. We as Americans have been born with the freedoms that people in other countries could never phathom.
And that is why I pray for the Iranian people.
BUT don’t tell that to our GREAT president who said on CNBC last Tuesday that, ‘The difference between Achmedinijad and Mousauvi is not that great….Either way we are going to be dealing with a regime hostile to the U.S.’ (I’m paraphrasing but I do have the quote)
While that quote may be factually true, the IRANIAN people do NOT seem to think so. They are dying in the streetsc because they feel there is a difference to the.
But Obama dismisses them with a wave of his arrogant, elitisdt hand. He might as well hav e told them not to even waste their time because it really did not matter and certainly NOT to our GREAT president. How insulting!!!!
Not everybody has so much resentment tom America or the Western system as our Elitist president. Leadership is fighting for the voice of the peoople NOT acknowledging at every turn how evil America is.
I’m only taking Obama’s own words that he uttered during an interview with his favorite media outlet. Could he be anymore insulting and dismissive to a people involved in a noble fight.
It was one of the most insensitive things I ever heard from a world leader and shows what Obama, the man of great compassdion really thinks of people. If it had been the mullah’s who had the upper hand Obama would have been happy because he would have been able to continue his policy of undermining America internationally.
I am on the side of the Iranians in their fight for freedom, liberty and democracy because I as an American by birthright know how invaluable those rights are.
Sicilian,
Twice now you’ve used a tragedy into an opportunity to engage in what I suspect is a well rehearsed rant about a subject that in one case was tangential to the core issues and in the other completely unrelated.
I hope someday you’ll figure out that a real person died, and that their death should be mourned, not exploited.
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You can only oppress a people for so long. Once educated, all people are willing to stand up and die for the rights due them as human beings.
After the 1979 Iranian revolution the Ayatollah encouraged the Iranian people to increase the population. The intention was to educate the young to them diseminate them into the world to spread the radical brand of Islam the Ayatollah and his like were so fond of. But educating the young had a reverse effect. They have become intelligent enough to realize they do NOT have to stand for the tyranny and oppression to which they have been subjected.
For a long time the young in Iran (60% of the population, I think) have been chaffing under this arcane theocracy. If the revolution is successful the world may be impacted like never before. Maybe radical Islam will suffer a fatal blow and finally the Arab/Muslim world will get some credibility and take a step into modernity.
Having Iran lead the charge is important. Iranians ARE Persians NOT Arabs. The Persian culture was once a proud culture whose native religion, Zoroastrianism, was a humble and respectful religion that impacted Judaism immeasurably when they interacted under Persian rule. In fact Cyrus the Great is revered in Judaism as he let the Jews back into the Land after the Babylonian Exile to reconstruct their Temple. What was once a great and proud culture has let itself be polluted by radical Islam. Maybe the Iranians can recapture their greatness as a people and stop being led by fanatical leaders bent on jihad, oppression and destruction.
Don’t count on our great president to support the Iranian people as they fight to have their will as citizens be done. Obama is for anything of the HATE America ideology. He rather have the mullah’s in power because he can come bowing to them hat-in-hand apologizing for every transgression he’s subscribed to the nation he leads and asking for forgiveness and whatever concessions they insist upon. This protest of the Muslim status quo does NOT fit the Obama adgenda and especially NOT after his fawning Cairo speech. Just when Obama thought he was gaining ground by taking America down yet another notch to give the Muslim world more credibility the leaders of radical Islam are losing their country because the people are willing to die for the freedom to have their votes count, choose their leader and end tyranny, a kind of MORE Western form of government than anything they’ve ever had.
I wonder what OBAMA’S FAVORITE CORPORATION NBC is going to do if the current regime goes down. Their stocks are going to take another hit. Hopefully for Immelt Obama won’t forget him when he’s handing out government green energy contracts. MSNBC better ratchet up those White House talking points a little further. They’ll want to make sure they’re really in the great Obama’s good graces.
Freedom and libertey are the greatest ideal’s in the world. It trumps religion and every other ideology.
My prayers are with all the Iranian people in their fight against tyranny
The British are evacuating their families from their embassay, NPR just reports. They and other countries had been sheltering some of the protestors as violence increases. Militias have been hacking protestors with machetes.
And let’s look at who is helping the Iranian oppressors, shall we? Why it’s our old friends the corporations! I’m looking in your direction Nokia and Siemens.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html#mod=rss_whats_news_us
Guess who’s products are now banned at my business and home?
Enjoy being fascists and enabling tyranny for profit, because you’ve gotten your last dime out of me.
Good luck, people of Iran.
Would that your stand against tyranny be a lesson to us all about the cost of liberty and freedom when one’s government quits listening to the will of the people.
You idiots in DC should be taking notes . . .
Dredd:
a person with any sense would want to live in a free and open society. Some things are worth dying for and freedom is one of them.
Some people really mean it when they say “give me liberty or give me death” …
Considering that Crispus Attucks was a paid provocateur of the Sons of Liberty, a cabal of dry goods merchants who sought to foment political unrest to gain pecuniary advantage by not paying taxes to replenish the fisc depleted by their defense in the French and Indian War, and who deliberately instigated a violent response from British soldiers in order to engender sympathy and support by others for their financial gain, is he really the best example we can offer?
Finally, decent Muslims rising up to take control of their lives and futures.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
May this poor young womans death not be in vain.
Looks like someone was right after all, “I reject the notion that some people dont want freedom and democracy” or words to that effect.
Good luck
It would be nice if Neda could become the symbol of a people trying to defeat the forces of a repressive government. I am not too optimistic, but I am hopeful that the people can “motivate” the religous leaders to throw out the landslide victory for the holocaust denier and accept a real vote in its place.
Only the words of Patrick Henry come to mind.
I forget who said this but it goes something like this “some human casualties are necessary for ever lasting peace.”
I feel for the father and the family of Neda. May peace be restored to all of the ends of the earth.
Considering that Crispus Attucks was a paid provacateur of the Sons of Liberty, a cabal of dry goods merchants who sought to foment unrest to avoid paying taxes to pay for their defense in the French and Indian War, and deliberately instigated the Boston Massacre to manufacture animus against the British so that the populus would serve the pecuniary interests of the merchants, is he really a good choice of models?