You wonder why US could have invaded and butchered people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and support Israel in its invasions, occupations, blockades, etc. and have such strong economic sanctions against innocent Iranian people, (back then) Iraqi people, etc.? It's partly because of the weekend-couch-activists who have morally corrupted the anti-war and leftist activism and made them impotent and unreliable. For instance next time that Angry Arab, or other activists similar to him, expects Iranian people to support what he claims to represent should remember himself saying that "Israel is banking on a Green revolution...". Next time that the attendees of this gathering expect Iranian people to show solidarity with their causes should remember their immorality and indifference towards the cases of Majid Tavakoli, Shiva Nazar Ahari, Reza Shahabi and the Mourning Mothers of Iran. Yes, I know that it doesn't work quite this way and people of Iran continue identifying with Palestinians and other oppressed populations whenever Iranian people feel extremely oppressed like when they shouted in the streets "why are you people sitting down and doing nothing while Iran has become Palestine?" or " Our votes turned to blood, Iran has become Palestine", or " the honored Palestinians, support us, support us". However, weekend-couch-activists only hurt the causes that they claim to represent and will eventually make Iranians show backlash towards those causes.
To have a feeling of how a country can wildly commit crimes of wars, occupations, etc. read this piece to see how morally numb and corrupt some of the so called anti-war, or bourgeois leftists, are. The weekend activists, the post espresso activists, get intoxicated with Mr. Privatization to tell them of how immoral capitalism is. I don't know whether to laugh or cry!
A'snejad: “Violent capitalism is based on superiority, hegemony and violation of rights.” He went on to say that one reason capitalists start wars is to fill up their pockets. They must empty their arsenals so they can build more weapons. As he said at a U.N. meeting earlier in the day, “Capitalism has come to an end. It has reached a deadlock. Its historical moment has ended and efforts to restore it won’t go very far.”
Wow! How leftist and progressive A'nejad is, of course in the same way as those who grab A'nejad's hands, stained with the blood of Iranian people, so that he brings down imperialism for them!
Such activists, obsessed with those in power to bring them peace (whatever peace is supposed to mean!) and justice, most likely don't even know of the life conditions of Iranian temporary workers whose number have sky-rocketed under the presidency of Mr. Privatization (or A'nejad) --- or know of them but simply can't care less. I am sure that they have never bothered to read about the Iranian workers who haven't been paid for several months, sometimes for a whole year under the presidency of A'nejad so that the profit of the capitalist class be guaranteed. I am sure they have never heard the names of Iranian teachers, unionists and workers in prison, under torture, deprived from their most basic right to have an independent union.
The post-espresso-activists instead of backing up those who pay with their lives and freedom to challenge the power structure and political-class exploitation in Iran, make a coalition with their oppressor so that their oppressor brings down imperialism for them. The oppressors of Iranian people can kill and imprison as many Iranians as they will as long as they abuse the Palestinian cause to create international crises to hide their shortcomings and abuses and oppression at home!
Such immoral weekend activists would tell you that the price of standing up against the imperialism and interventionism is for some Iranian people being killed by the state-men of Iran because the Iranian regime can't handle people's uprising in the time that US-Israel's guns are pointed towards them and they argue that people's uprisings weaken the government of Iran which would benefit US-Israel. How much more racist could you guys be? Would you make such comments about your favorite countries that you respect? Doesn't that remind you of neo-cons arguing that the price of bringing democracy into Iraq is some innocent people getting killed? This is where some of the anti-war activists are standing morally. Good going guys!
Let's not forget that people's uprising in Iran for justice has made it really hard for the US-Israel to attack Iran as people of Iran have challenged the cliche of a passive Middle Easterner who needs booklets making him/her "secularized" and "democratized" and needs someone to liberate him/her. Iranian people showed that not only do they value democracy but also in such a corrupt political structure (that they themselves don't believe in its elections) they still care about their votes up to paying with their lives to challenge the state's dismissal of elections (to paraphrase Hamid Dabashi). Where-is-my-vote was the first slogan, many people moved on to question the whole establishment and the power structure. It has been hard for the world to believe that where-is-my-vote is the slogan of a nation in a region that its people supposedly need booklets to be taught of "secularism" and "democracy" and need someone like Bush to "liberate" them and "teach them what elections mean and are".
The weekend activists chose to listen to the head of a state that calls the economic sanctions imposed on the innocent people funny and useless just because such sanctions increase the under the table economic activities of IRG (or the state) and make uprising of the people way harder as they would be more dependent on the handouts of the state because the number of jobs decrease drastically. Under the economic sanctions, the government can divide its resources among its "faithful" forces and let the opposition or those who dare to struggle for an independent union die of hunger and lack of medicine.
Justice can't be brought by the ruling elite but by the people who are conscious politically, and class conscious. A'nejad and its bunch couldn't care less about the workers, farmers, etc. who would lose their jobs as a result of cheap products import because such import was beneficiary to some of the ruling capitalist class. Now how such group can fight imperialism for you guys and bring justice?
Please write a report of your meeting with Mr. Privatization for Rasoul Bodaghi, the mother of Sohrab's Arabi, Mansour Osanloo and his family, Reza Shahabi, Abed Tavancheh, Majid Tavakoli, Farzad Kamangar's family, Kouhyar Goudarzi, etc. How about, in your report, you also write the poem of Labkhand, the girlfriend of a killed protester called Amir Javadifar, that she has written for him?
"Amir, longing has killed my patience. The longing for hugging you again only one more time, the longing for seeing you only one more time, smelling you, kissing you. Amir, longing has killed my patience, the longing for writing again to you yourself, not writing in mourning for you. The longing to cry while having my head on your shoulders, not crying for you. Amir, longing has killed my patience. The longing to touch and become warm in your hands, not freezing of your absence. The longing for a cheerful and independent life with you, not dependent on you. Amir, longing has killed my patience".
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