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Monday, June 15, 2009

Following Iran

Here are useful links:

Juan Cole.
Michael Totten.
Andrew Sullivan.
NIAC.
GlobalPost.
RealClearWorld.

Twitter feeds:
Mousavi1388.
Huffpo's collection.

Youtubes:
Mousavi1388.
PressTV (this is controlled by the Iranian government).

I'm consuming as much information as I can. I truly hope that the Iranian people tear down the regime in power. I hope there is another revolution. A government this violent, this intolerant of change, this unafraid of its own people shouldn't exist. Amongst the images of blood and horror on the streets of Tehran, I return to the words of Jefferson:
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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