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The Image of Iran's Protest: Neda

By John de Guzman on June 22, 2009 6:00 PM | | Comments (0) | | | |
Words have lost their power.  Where Shakespeare discussed how the pen is mightier than the sword, the writer of our times (Dan Brown?  Sue Grafton?  John de Guzmán?) should say, "Video is super, super powerful.  Much more than pens or guns or sticks or stones."

In fact, it's hard for many to wrap their minds around something unless they are visualizing it.  (Just ask any Los Angeles jury... they don't believe anything unless it was caught on video.  Even then, there's doubt.)  So, I'll post a couple of examples of crisis-defining media, then I'll introduce one of the scariest videos you'll ever see.  It puts a shape on Iran's current situation.  I'll warn, though, that the video from Iran is haunting, so read on with that in mind.  It is NOT for children.

Tiananmen Square:



This video perfectly communicated the magnitude and desperation of the Chinese 1989 protest.  Finally, the rest of the world got it.  No amount of written reporting communicated as much as this simple minute of video.

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JLF: Iran Learned From the U.S.

By Johnny Lead Foot on April 16, 2008 10:00 AM | | Comments (1) | | | |
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Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm not surprised...
 

Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, is labeled a lunatic.  I can't help but think, though, that he's just taking after George Bush.  See, Ahmadinejad laughs in the face of the world, sitting on his nuclear weapons and oil money, daring people to provoke him.  Isn't that what Bush has been doing for 7 years?  Didn't he tell the world to shove off when he walked away from the Kyoto Protocol?  Didn't he tell the world to shove off when they wanted justification to invade Iraq?  Didn't he tell the world to shove off when he said he'd torture because he wanted to?  Hasn't he been sitting on his own bombs and boundless deficit daring the world to screw with the U.S.?  In fact, all the provocation Bush needed to invade Iraq and kill Saddam (with all its repercussions) was Saddam not behaving with UN Weapons Inspectors. 

To the world, though, there isn't much difference between spreading the religion of God (Ahmadinejad) or spreading the religion of democracy (Bush).  In fact, at least Ahmadinejad has been consistent in his tale.  Allah is a Ahmadinejad's motivation, even if he has an odd interpretation of the Koran.  Bush, meanwhile, has swung whichever way the wind blew: ties to Al Queda, weapons of mass destruction, removing Saddam, spreading democracy, Mission Accomplished.

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