I'd just like to take a brief moment to say how proud I am of the Iranian protesters and how excited I am for their future. I could be being overly optimistic or naive. This whole thing could end like Tiananmen 20 years ago, but we have reason to hope. This is not Hungary or Poland 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, or even China 1989. In 2009 information can travel with the click of a mouse, information that even 10 or 15 years ago would have to have been quintuple encrypted or sent out in a hidden compartment in a horse drawn cart over a mountain range. Now a protester can make a video on their phone and transmit it to millions in a flash. This is what makes what has gone on in Iran so astounding.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the forces of Tyranny seized the means of mass communication and production away from the people and had the sick, ironic gall to say it was in the name of the people. Now, the people have it back...
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