tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22980286.post7012540970453931719..comments2024-03-28T00:58:29.445-04:00Comments on Ponderings on a Faith Journey: The President Speaks on IranRobert Cornwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04581876323110725024noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22980286.post-81475385443376625242009-06-24T12:28:42.255-04:002009-06-24T12:28:42.255-04:00I appreciate the speech, but
Juan Cole makes some...I appreciate the speech, but<br /><br />Juan Cole makes some good points.<br />We are still waiting for our own rights to be fully restored.<br /><br />Washington and the Iran Protests: <br />Would they be Allowed in the US? <br /><br />...The number of demonstrators arrested in Tehran on Saturday is estimated at 550 or so, which is less than those arrested by the NYPD for protesting Bush policies in 2004.<br /><br />I applaud the Iranian public's protests against a clearly fraudulent election, and deplore the jackboot tactics that the regime is using to quell them. But it is important to remember that the US itself was moved by Bush and McCain toward a 'Homeland Security' national security state that is intolerant of public protest and throws the word 'terrorist' around about dissidents. Obama and the Democrats have not addressed this creeping desecration of the Bill of Rights, and until they do, the pronouncements of self-righteous US senators and congressmen on the travesty in Tehran will be nothing more that imperialist hypocrisy of the most abject sort...<br /><br />more at http://www.juancole.com/2009/06/washington-and-iran-protests-would-they.html<br /><br />David McAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com